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For the last three days I have made Palette Art Café my latest stomping ground to do my everyday online activities. Today started off dedicated to writing a blog post about my life as of Monday morning (link to post to come) but as I got up to grab my soy mocha, I came across a flyer announcing an event for Healdsburg Magazine.

The event: A Day in the Life of Healdsburg: 19 July 2008

Healdsburg Magazine…. WHAT is this, WHY haven’t I heard about it and WHO came up with such a great idea to capture the beauty and personality that our little town has in one day??

My eyes lit up….. Is this flyer a sign that Healdsburg is where I should stay to pursue my next chapter of my life (once again, link to post to come). I had to check out HealdburgMagazine.com.

The site is a newly created new media magazine dedicated to life, food, wine, events and business in Healdsburg, Ca.

I believe it definitely has the potential to help bring Healdsburg into the new millennium (i.e., creating active participants within an online community). The creator of this site, Jennifer, seems to know about SEO and using social media to market a site.  As some may know, I am just starting to attempt to get Healdsburg online, so news that someone else wants to do the same thing gets me very excited.

The event in more detail: On Saturday July 19^th, 2008 Healdsburg Magazine is asking all locals or visitors in Healdsburg to take a minute of their day to capture their experience.

“Just record being in Healdsburg”

• If you video it, create a short video of your experience and email a link to the video
• If you photograph it, send in the photograph with details about who, where, when, and how
• If you blog it, just blog it and send the link to your blog
• If you use audio, send in your audio clips
• Or, just call and leave a voice mail. 707-477-2528

I will definitely be participating in this event, as well as telling everyone I know in Healdsburg that day to do the same. I also look forward to seeing what Healdsburg Magazine has in store for the future.

New must see site:

It is called Tag Galaxy and I found it through the Mashable blog. The site is basically just a Flickr search, but in Papervision3D.

Some screen shots:

You have to try it out…

Too bad the url is the same throughout the experience, because instead of sending people to my Flickr page, I would send them to this page to see images tagged with my name…

Or, thinking about someone other than myself for a chance, it could be pretty cool for HP or Clos du Bois. I could see them do a Flickr photo contest of some sort.

Click on this image to see what a regular Flickr search looks like:

Spring in Sonoma County is welcomed in mid-February by the bright blossoms of mustard flowers that line the vineyard rows.  By April the flowers have all been mowed down to make room for the grapes to be re-born.  This is my favorite time of year to drive through Dry Creek Valley, enjoy in the views and visit some friends who work at wineries (preferably before Barrel Tasting Weekend, which is a great weekend to visit, but the amazingness is out shined by the large amount of people out on the road).  Some of the best wineries to visit are Papapietro Perry and Peterson Winery, both a mile north of the general store (on the right side of the road).

This image is the first blog post of my new Flickr set called “Stuff I Love.” Every week, I am trying to add a new picture to the set. Mostly for my own personal enjoyment, but hey, if you enjoy it too, all the better.

Zefrank announced that the first game in the Twitter Color Wars is Roshambo, or “Rock, Paper, Scissors”. I have submitted 8 different photos via Flickr, representing the Blue Team.

The rules state that:

Tuesday evening a bracket style RoShamBo tournament will be held. Best of three RSB, winner moves on…

We will see how this turns out, for now, it is fun to watch how many people are getting excited, and how many people Gary V. has been able to recruit, just based on his Tweets and wonderfully excessive videos about the Very Green Team on his website. My entertainment also lies in my newly found competition between myself and KG against fellow Hamilton Partners Tim and Pete.

And yes, my series for Scissors involves a Peep’s head being cut off, one might call it a metaphor of what could happen to the opposing teams.