I’m writing this from by iPhone using WordPress’s iPhone app. You can check it out at iPhone.wordpress.org.
Generally I find it very syriaght forward and easy to use but the edit options are pretty much limited to writing straight HTML. Needless to say, the iPhone is not the best platform for writing verbose code. Still, it’s very cool to be able to do this 
It just occurred to me as I was looking at a wordle of the recent presidential debates just how cool of a data visualization Wordle really is.
So here’s one I recently created using this blog:
I don’t think that a wordle image can give you a full sense of the text without the context of reading the original, but I do think it can give you some insight into the kind of words the author is using.
I really like that in a blog that is currently focused on application design the words “people,” “content,” and “idea” are so visible.
Check it out, new theme by Toronto’s Nick La called iTheme. Pretty groovy, check out his stuff.
I’m also trying to use the Pownce Widget for WordPress by Ronald Heft. I’m pretty sure I’m using it incorrectly, but if I can get it to work, it’ll be pretty dope.
No, really, I’ll totally tell you about what’s going on at 360|Flex. I’m still getting used to the idea that I even have a blog and making time to take all my crazy mess of notes and turn them into a coherent mess of notes for you to read.
One guy who’s blogging this conference really well is Dave Coletta, from Virtual Ubiquity. Check his blog out at http://www.colettas.org/. He seems (as I look over his should during this sesison on the Saffron Modeler by Samuel Agesilas) to be live blogging directly in plain text instead of taking notes and then translating them to coherent prose. I’m not sure I actually have the ability to pay attention and comment on the presentation at the same time so I have to go with the notes method.
Also, I’m checking out Qumana for editing this blog offline on my laptop. I was getting really frustrated with not being able to work on my blog in any organized manner at times when I did not have a wireless connection. I’ll let you know if I find anything really annoying about it, otherwise, assume it works great.
More awesomeness after the jump…
So here I sit in my hotel room in Seattle, about to head back out into a new city 
But first, why don’t I set up a blog? I ususually hate this kind of aimless personal blog but this trip really makes me want to share the experiences I’ve had just in the last 24 hours. Who knows if this thing will last, but maybeby blogging it’ll shut my coworkers up and give me a little more geek cred. So expect stuff from my trips, starting with this one to Seattle, and some geek stuff, starting with the 360Flex conference that I’m going to in this fair city. OK, enough with the writing, more with the exploring. Next up, Fremont and then the Guitar Hero Competition & party meet-up tonight. I’ll write back later.
