Sol Young

Watch this walking tour of the Washington DC Newseum. My new favorite museum!

This video was a fun experiment in video blogging.
Tools used:
Canon SD-1000, 640×480 @ 30fps
iMovie
Viddler for commenting (uploading to other services for comparison)

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Hey, I’d like my phone back. If you found it, please do the right thing and email phone@solyoung.com or ship it.

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I’m not in Philadelphia this weekend - got out of town! For those in the area and enjoying the city, here’s some links on how to take part in the biggest Independence Day celebration in America.

You read that right. Philadelphia has the biggest Independence Day celebration. It is the birthplace and we’ve got Independence Hall. [...]

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I wrote a quick note a few days ago about Roz Savage and her efforts to cross the Pacific Ocean on a row boat (she’s doing quite well and just wrote her day 39 entry). It’s an extremely cool adventure.
Since then I’ve been catching the daily entry on the blog at http://rozsavage.com/blog/.  Something pretty cool [...]

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Ross Miller at FriendFeed responded to my question about FriendFeed del.icio.us feeds not updating. It seems del.icio.us is blocking mass spidering of their site.
Ross’s email:
“Hi Sol, del.icio.us places restraints on our ability to crawl their site. So if for some reason the item is missed, it becomes very hard for us to retrieve the del.icio.us [...]

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Galina and I are heading to Bozeman, Montana for a family reunion in a couple days. Family will be flying in from all over the place… Some from Florida, a large portion from California (my home state), and obviously some in Montana.
Should be a gorgeous locale for the 4th of July weekend!

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