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I recently discovered a big potential security risk. I’m sure this is widely talk about on the Internet, but I failed to find it with a few quick google searches. Anyway, it’s related to letting a domain name expire.

Apparently, Webcraft Studios belonged to an active company previous to my owning it. I set up a “catch all” email address for any emails sent to any address (other than ones I setup). I started noticing a lot of mailing list type emails coming into specific addresses. Then, I got a message from ebay. That’s when I realized how dangerous this is.
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Life moves quickly. I recently attended Burning Man 2008. I attended early and stayed late to assist my camp with setup and tear down. The photo attached to this post shows my mobile office inside of our dorm tent. During setup, I was able to do a minimal amount of work via the half ass wifi connection being broadcast across the playa. On the first day of the event, I shut my laptop lid and hoped for the best. Much to my pleasant surprise, everything went very smoothly while I was away. Perhaps I should vacation more often?

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It looks like I’m going to give a quick talk on Digital Theatrics at IgniteDenver. John Wilker made the announcement in his “Ever wonder what Duke Nukem would twitter?” blog post.

Maybe I’ll see you there for my 5 minutes of fame. I mean, literally, 5 minutes. The Ignite format gives you 5 minutes with 20 slides that rotate automatically every 15 seconds. It sounds like a fun little format and a cool way to get a quick dose of what’s going on in the Denver/Boulder area. Come check it out.

Back in April, I defined the term Digital Theatrics. Since then, I’ve had slews of conversations talking about the finer points of DT.

I’m often asked to expand on the concept of “the stage”. Everyone is familiar with seeing theatrical productions in the theater, on television, or in books. We embrace the opportunity to get to know new fantasy characters. We enjoy learning the story of their imaginary lives.

Digital Theatrics is a character-based story-telling process that happens through social web sites. They can be social media sites like Flickr and Youtube. They can also be social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. In fact, it can be anywhere people meet each other online. It can be based around anything from a classified ads site to a directories of businesses – so long as users can interact.

Now that you know the stage, how do the characters come to life?
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One year, one month, and one day ago – on 7/7/07 – I posted the first blog entry. Today – on 8/8/08 – I have two exciting things to post about. The first: Webcraft Studios is now in Boulder, CO. WCS is still based out of my home office – and *I* moved to Boulder. Today I turned in the keys on my Westminster apartment and have fully moved into my new place. Well, all my stuff is here now – but I still have a lot of boxes to unpack.

Boulder is a fine city. So fine, in fact, that my previous employer longs to be here. Gaiam recently relocated out of Broomfield (a rather nice place for a business, actually – very near a nice airport) to “Boulder Rd”. However, they still aren’t in the city of Boulder. Gaiam is next door, in Louisville, CO. (note: maybe I should update their Wikipedia entry, it still says Broomfield).
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