Yep, I’m trying something completely new in the morning. I’m draggin my, um… self out of bed early of a Saturday to make the drive up to Chattanooga for BarCamp Chattanooga. I’ve never been to a bar camp before so I’m just a little unsure what to expect, but hey, that’s half the fun of any good adventure anyway, right?

For those that don’t know (because I didn’t) BarCamp is a network of user defined conferences made up of various workshops and participatory meetings and whose content is all user generated. All attendees are encouraged to sign-up to present on a top of their choice. I may just have to watch and learn this time, but it certainly sounds intriguing! Who knows, before the day is over, I may just come up with something to say! (And no snickering from those of you who know me… and know how ironic that last statement is).

The conference is totally wired, or should I say wi-fi’ed … is that a word? … so you can hopefully expect to get some updates from me via Twitter at least, maybe even a blog post! And with the introduction of the iPhone to the jtrigsby.com arsenal probably a few pics to boot.

Oh, and Sunday we’re headed to the beach for a few days so … go ahead, envy me!

Later,

jtrigsby

Not sure about you, but I’ve thought so for a long time! I had a chance to watch it again tonight and thought, “Hey, what a great movie!” and naturally that led me right here of course!

The movie stars Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, David Strathairn, Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix and of course Mary McDonnell. It chronicles the adventures of Martin Bishop (Redford) as he leads his group of merry men who specialize in testing security systems. When he’s backed into a corner by the government for some college indescressions, he and his team steal THE cryptography black box and enter into a game of danger and intrigue!

Its a somewhat ligh-hearted and all too geeky formula for a good techy movie, especially in 1992 when it was released. Now, most of the “high-tech” security systems they show being tested in the movie, we see every day.

But my favorite part of the movie comes in a dialog between Kingsley’s character and Redford’s Bishop.

The world isn’t run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. Its run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. its all just electrons!

HOT OFF THE PRESSES, JUST ANNOUNCED ON ENTRECARD SITE…. Entrecard is Launching a Third Party Ad Network and a Credit Cashout Service

Entrecard will buy back your credits for actual money! Why is this such a big deal? Well simply put, because Entrecard has just been a way to drive traffic until now. And most of that traffic NEVER converted ANYTHING! Well now, you don’t need to have them convert, you just need the Entrecard Credits because Entrecard will buy them back from you!

No word yet on what the rate will be, apparently a couple of things with this plan are still up in the air, but its pretty good news in my book! Especially for those “power droppers” that can rack up points pretty quickly!

In the same announcement, the good folks over at Entrecard also put out the word that they are going to be making their ad spots available to outside advertisers in a CPM modes. The revenue derived from these ad sales is what they will use to buy back our credits

I’m sure there will be much debate and much more info coming on this topic. Stay tuned for more!