Katherine Druckman

Dinner With GaryVee. Awesome.

So last night Geri and I trekked up to The Woodlands, Texas to get our new favorite wine book signed by the coolest guy in wine, Gary Vaynerchuk. After loitering a while at Borders for the book signing, we were lucky enough to accompany Gary to a wine bar down the street, Cru (which I have [...]

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Trying yet another web communication tool

So I discovered yet another web app, Plurk, that may or may not be the next big thing. Whether or not that is the case is far less interesting to me than the amusing phenomenon I witnessed tonight as Twitter displayed a “database maintenance” message with an ETA of 3 hours. Like rats [...]

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Install Ubuntu in Windows with Wubi

Another great video from Linux Journal.

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Nerds Rule

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Make a Linux Screencast

Yay, there’s a new video up today at LinuxJournal.com! Thanks, Shawn.

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tipdish.com is getting the word out to new media

I tagged along with my husband on Friday night for the early brainstorming stages of Startup Weekend Houston, an event that brings together like-minded tech entrepreneurs to start a company over one weekend, and I am pretty impressed with the idea we came up with.  I say “we” even though I had to flake out [...]

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My Reflections on BarCamp Houston II

I had never been to a BarCamp until today.  I am so glad I remedied that! Not knowing what to expect, I was not certain how my perspective and background might mesh with the rest of the crowd.  Would I have anything at all to talk about?  That said, I did in fact have a great [...]

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Is Twitter Evil?

So I am really trying to understand the twitter phenomenon, but so far I don’t.  Perhaps my life is too boring, or I just don’t have enough friends, but I have been clicking around reading this random junk on twitter, and I am just not feeling it.  Am I missing something?  Please let me know [...]

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How To Be One Of The “Cool Kids”

I was reading something about beta sites that are invitation only, and how some seem worthy of such exclusivity whereas some don’t.  Justified or not, there are a bunch of cool new-ish things out there that require an invitation.  Joost comes to mind, as does Natuba.  I already have a Natuba page (thanks Richard), but [...]

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Web Design Meetup

This one really looks like fun, so I thought I’d post it in case there are any interesting and creative types out there reading my blog.  If the right crowd shows up, this could really be some time well spent I think, so here it is: WEBSITE DESIGN MAYHEM!

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