One of my friends, who shall remain nameless, got me this Apple Security patch for my birthday. This is an official (though old, since Apple doesn't use that logo anymore) patch, my friends. Can you say collectors' item? I thought you could!
I am thinking about getting someone to sew it onto my laptop bag because I'm a geek like that.
Thanks, mystery gift giver!
You may have noticed that all has been quiet here at Blankbaby for the last week or so. That's because I found myself, once more, on the West Coast attending yet another Macworld (this marks my 4th Macworld). Apple announced some stuff (I'm not getting a MacBook Air, but I did buy a Time Capsule for those who are interested) and I met a great many people.
This Macworld was the best Macworld I have been to for both myself, and TUAW. We covered the heck out of the show, did some great videos (some of which I'll share below), and I had a chance to meet some TUAWers that heretofore were merely words on a screen to me.
In addition to all the TUAW goodness I got to see some fine Mac web folks that I have come to respect over the years, as well as meet some people whose work I admire. Thanks to the magic of Twitter I was finally able to meet both Jason Snell and Andy Ihnatko (Andy told me I am much slimmer than my Twitter icon made me out to me. I bet he says that to all the bloggers!). I even ran into, and interviewed, web maven Merlin Mann.
Overall Macworld 2008 reminded me that Mac folks are some of the best, and shortest, people out there. I mean really, people, it was tough for Chris to try and frame some of these interviews since I am seemingly a giant amongst the Mac people. What up with that?
Walt Mossberg (who runs away at the end of the interview):
The always entertaining Merlin Mann (some have said Merlin and I should have our own show. What do you say, Merlin?):
I don't usually talk about TUAW stuff here at Blankbaby, but since I know you folks like free stuff I thought you might want to know about this. All this week we're giving away an iPod Shuffle a day. All you have to do is leave a comment on the day's post and you're entered!
We start off with a gray shuffle... what color will tomorrow bring? I'll never tell (and, in fact, I don't know!). At the moment there are 535 comments on the entry. Sweet!
Some of you know that I’m the Lead Blogger over at TUAW (that’s the Unofficial Apple Weblog to you, buddy), which has meant that Blankbaby has far less Apple related content than it did at one point. I blog with a great bunch of folks over there who are all very enthusiastic users of Apple technology (I don’t think we’re ‘fanboys,’ but then again we probably are). We all enjoy writing about Apple, but I’ll admit that there is a small, but very vocal, minority of commenters on TUAW that aren’t kind. They can sometimes suck all the joy out of blogger (I want to be clear, though, that most of TUAW readers and commenters are great).
ComputerWorld has just listed their top 15 geek blogs and TUAW wasn’t on the list. Fret not, loyal Scott lovers, TUAW was the very first honorable mention. TUAW was left out of the top 15 because of its ‘singular focus.’ Hurrah for us! It is nice to have someone notice all your hard work.
Will you look at that, my Google Desktop for the Mac post is on TechMeme. Bonus points to me because it isn't just a link pointing to a featured article on TechMeme, but rather it is a featured post itself. I think this might be the first time on of my posts has been featured as such (I've been on TechMeme before, but mostly commenting on other posts there).
Very cool!
Since most of my writing about TUAW on here consists of bemoaning the negative aspects of being a blogger for a popular blog, I thought I would point out some of the good things too.
It is sometimes difficult to remember that members of the Mac community (and it is a community) actually appreciate what we're doing over at TUAW. When I read a post like this it really puts all the negative crap in prospective.
Thanks, Scott. You rock!
At the moment I am still in San Francisco, sitting the hotel lobby using my computer thanks to the wonders of EVDO. I had lots of fun at Macworld this week, and did lots of work as well. One of our goals for this Macworld was to shoot lots of video, and I think we were partially successful. We shot lots of good stuff, but it is taking us a little longer than I would like to get it up on the site (though that is mostly due to a number of technical problems). Anyway, some video is up at TUAW, like this hands on with OWC's ModBook. I had fun doing this video, and I didn't think I was half bad interviewing folks. Leave it to TUAW commenters to crush my dreams:
scott, where are you from??? you've got that quasi british-madonna accent going on. passable job? stay away from cameras and stay in front of your computer. you just went down 10 steps in my book.
This marks the first time I have ever been compared to Madonna, and I'm not sure how I feel about that. I don't think I have a 'quasi-british' accent at all, though I do enjoy speaking the Queen's English from time to time. At least I can console myself with the fact that this comment is from the small, but vocal, minority of people who read TUAW and think that everything we do sucks (though why they continue reading is anyone's guess).
Pip pip and all that.
Ah, video how I love it. Ryan from Netscape joined my great team from TUAW to cover the hell out of Macworld 2007, and methinks we did a great job.
Above you'll see this video in which Ryan and I walk the entire show floor. It is a single shot that lasts for 40 minutes, though Ryan sped it up in Final Cut so the video is 5 minutes long.
The audio is a little... uneven. It starts off very loudly so be warned!
scott interviews the first guy in line
Originally uploaded by The Unofficial Apple Weblog.
Well, thin for me. :)
These two dudes were the first in line for the Keynote. When did they start waiting on the street? 9pm for a 9am Keynote. That's 12 hours for Steve Jobs.
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