José Marques

In case you didn’t know there’s this conference being held in Lisbon (that is of course, the most beautiful city in the world) next week called SHiFT.
The conference spans trough 3 days of workshops and talks, with the present of Brian Suda, Andy Budd, Tara Hunt, Stowe Boyd and many others.
The focus will be on the impact of technology in subjects like Education, History, Genetics, Economics, Accessibility, Transportation, Mobile Technologies, User Experience, Energy and Architecture, Art and Open Technologies.
I’ll be attending the whole three days and I’m really excited since this is my first conference on this subject. If you’re interested I have a discount coupon that will give you 20% off on the ticket price: adrift6b8b2e8a.

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So, according to my archive, my blogging experience started 7 years ago tomorrow. I’m not sure if this is accurate, I certainly don’t remember when I started blogging “consciously”. A lot has happened since that time, back then I was in college, trying to figure out what I wanted to do with what I was learning.

Blogger was the blogging tool, this was before Moveable Type or Wordpress, I remember the way to find new blogs was though blog lists, linking to other blogs was also big (nobody does that now).
A lot of blogs were born and died as fast as they were born. Back then it was something special and different to do, these days your grandmother has a blog about knitting and it’s probably a success. I wouldn’t say it’s not fun anymore, but it sure isn’t special.

This blog has always (and will continue to be) a dump for thoughts, suggestion, rants and raves and self promotion. It was never big, never will be, nor do I care about that. It never really had a focus, focused blogs are boring and die very fast because you eventually drain out all the possible content. I always preferred personal blogs to the other kind. So I’m going to keep on blogging, for another 7 years, or 14, or 21, or who knows, for as long as it makes sense to me, for as long as I need a channel to communicate.

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Because a man needs its coke chilled at all times, and because there’s no such thing as too many USB gadgets attached to your matxine!

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Great news: Peter Rojas and Ryan Block, two ex-editors of the popular gadget site Engadget (and before that: Gizmodo) have a new podcast about… gadgets!
The Engadget podcast was the first podcast I ever listened, I really enjoyed those guys talking about tech, they really know their business. I was very sad when it ended and never looked for a replacement, but they are back with a new project: gdgt. There’s probably more coming from those two, but this is a great first step.

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