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Charlotte UX June meeting recap

ioThe Charlotte UX group met yesterday at Modis, Uptown. Good turnout, pizza, and conversation. I dropped some Pecha Kucha knowledge, and hopefully generated some interest for PK Night vol 4 in August. Greg Corrin talked about Google Wave and let us play with the Android phone from the Google I/O developer conference.

Twitterers in attendance: I met @wwwmarty IRL for the 1st time, saw my coworker @shelkster, saw @inkblurt, @gcorrin, and watched @jorah knitting some funky wool socks.

In other Charlotte UX news, we’ve officially abandoned Evite for event administration and, for now, that is handled at charlotte-ux.org. We’re also trying out a Ning site, so if you want to check that out, post something in the comments (it’s invite-only for now).

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Genius, my ass

Genius sidebar could not find matches for your specific selection, but here are the Top Songs and Albums in the iTunes Store.

If my music is too obscure for you to come up with related items, what makes you think I want to see your “Top” anything??

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Beardyman on Radio 1

I haven’t even listened to this yet, but after this video, I believe in Beardyman!
Beardyman Radio 1 Mix

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Tonight: Pecha Kucha Night Charlotte v3

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It’s actually in Rock Hill this time around, but… close enough.
I’m going to be presenting “The Incredible Shrinking Media”, which I’ll post on cultivatecreativity.com tonight for your enjoyment. (It’ll also show up in my lil’ Slideshare widget over there –>

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I want Cory Doctorow’s T-shirt

That is all.

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jus uploading some tunes

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Pecha Kucha Night Charlotte vol 3: date & location confirmed

PKN Charlotte – Volume 3

Date: Thursday April 2nd
When: Starting at 7:30pm
Where: Tom S. Gettys Art Center
201 E Main Street, Rock Hill, SC 29730
Cover Charge $5.

Want to present? Submission deadline is March 15th.
See the Pecha Kucha Night Charlotte site for all the details.

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BarCampCLT roundup

Collected lots of pics and follow-up posts from this past weekend’s BarCamp in Charlotte. I’ll post a cleaned up version on cultivate creativity this weekend. If you know of more, post up in the comments. Also, let me know if you’d like to be credited differently than what I’ve done here…

Photos

A bunch of photos are up on Flickr. Here’s a quick link to everything tagged “BarCampCLT”
More specifically, here are contributions from Andy Ciordia, Wayne Sutton, David Zimm, Lisa Hoffmann, Brian Cary, Matt Tyndall, Gregor Smith, Brian and Cara, Neil Cowley, and James Willamore. Taking the road less Flickred are pics from Carolina Nightlife and Alphatracks. We’ve got pre-party photos from Matt Tyndall and James Willamore, and James also has a cool set of the CLT Blog crew.

Video

CLT Blog streamed video live from the event, and has a couple segments still looping.
Justin Ruckman talks about Charlotte’s first Barcamp by Wayne Sutton
BarCampCLT – Videos (OLPC and The Future of Journalism sessions) by LifeTech101
Meeting of the Minds in Charlotte! New Wave by StormanNorman

Blog posts

Reflections on BarCampCLT (1-24-09) by Mr R.
BarCampCLT: Signs of Creative Life in the Queen City? by Steve Knight
A Remote Organizer by Phillip Dodds
BarCampCLT Meets Filmblazer by Jamie of Filmblazer
How to Make Money Online by Corey Creed
Shooting BarCamp Charlotte with a M42 lens on the A350 by Alphatracks

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Reminder: Pecha Kucha Charlotte tonight!

7:30 pm at Alive in NoDa (2909 N Davidson St. Charlotte 28205 – in the Highland Mills complex)
Cover: $5 at the door

This should be a lot of fun. The first one was great. I may only be able to stop by for a little bit of it this time. :(

Join us to see 15 great presentations from a very diverse group of people, on a very broad range of topics including Kinetic art, Japanese cinema, the Presidential election, Jazz maestros, Concepts of beauty, Peace-Jackets, Visions for our city’s center, and many more.

The presenters are:
Amy Cheng
Allan Bacon
Carrie Gault
Darryl G. Hall
DeAngelo Dia Bethune
Ellen Penninger
Faron Franks
Gary O’Brien
Jeff Cravotta
Kevin Clark
Kit Kube
Ralph Helmick
Regine Bloch
Ross Telford Wilbanks
Shannon Binns

(the presenters are listed in alphabetical order – this won’t the actual sequence of presentations)

Don’t miss it!

http://www.point8.org/pechakucha/

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Understatement of the year

Well, the year is still young, but this is surely a contender…

Quoted from an SRAM product recall on Rock Shox mountain bike forks:

The steel steerer on the forks can crack, causing the fork to detach from the bicycle frame. This can cause the rider to lose control and crash.

LOL. Ya think? If your fork detaches while riding, and you don’t crash, I’ll buy you a drink. (But, more likely, you’ll be wanting to see a dentist.)

Full details on the recall are linked here.

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