PDX #powerballVC Reaps Rewards Worthy of Wall St

I’m pleased to report that the first ever PDX Powerball Venture Capital fund returned earnings worthy of a Wall Street investment fund. With a generous $155 in initial capital, #powerballVC returned a stunning $9 in winnings! After subtracting our promised 10%—or $0.90 —donation to the Legion of Tech, 31 #powerballVC fund members divide the remaining … Read more

PDX #powerballVC

Based on an idea by @linuxaid, we announce the first PDX Powerball venture capitalist (#powerballVC) group. Our own Legion of Tech has been nominated as the trusted #powerballVC steward and will receive 10% of any winnings to support their awesome work to grow and nurture the local Portland community through free, educational, community-run technology events. … Read more

My True Colors

Like most of what happens to me, I was accidentally in the right place at the right time to be interviewed by the Back Fence Babes Melissa Lion and Frayn Masters about “true colors,” the theme of their then upcoming Back Fence event. If you want to know more about me and my background, this … Read more

Tagging My Unconscious With Twitter

After my first 1,000 tweets on twitter, I’ve generated this tweetcloud: Which demonstrates my tweeted theory: tweetclouds are like a tagcloud of one’s unconscious the tags you would really make if you didn’t think about it too hard. Corollaries are that tagclouds represent your conscious, and unsent emails, your id. Clearly my unconscious has been … Read more

Portlanteau: PDX, a Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That

Not so long ago, someone (Chris O’Rourke? Scott Kveton?) coined the term portvangelist and spawned a not-your-grandpa’s Chamber of Commerce movement to match the term. The portvangelists in turn provoked the portvangelistas, reactionary reactionaries to not-your-grandpa’s grandpa. When self-avowed portvangelist Scott Kveton turned up in the official news, characterized as a “job flipper,” when really … Read more