Total FAILURE!

I'm sitting here in LeWeb. Jack Dorsey is talking about Twitter and new applications. Cover It Live won't launch. TweetDeck won't tweet. Looks like I'll be blogging and phone tweeting here on in.

Jack Dorsey of Twitter talks at LeWeb in Paris!

I'm at LeWeb, an Internet, digital media conference, in Paris. The event's organizers are Loïc and Géraldine LeMeur. They are introducing the event now, and Dorsey will take the stage in just a moment.

LeWeb coverage!

In just a few moments, I will be covering LeWeb from this site. Tune again soon!

Front page of Demotix!

Last night, Algeria played Egypt for a spot at the World Cup in 2010. (This is soccer, of course.) Before their shaming defeat, Algeria supporters took to the streets, shut down the Barbès-Rochechouart metro station and blocked traffic. And fans of every shape and size came out to join the frenzy: There were young girls draped in Algerian flags, middle-aged men hooting and hollering and women yodelling. Teenage boys with faces smeared with red, green and white paint set off fireworks and every physical surface that was climbable was climbed on, including the newsstand opposite the entrance to the station.

I took some photos of the pre-match celebrations and, not knowing what to do with them, I uploaded them to Demotix. (Demotix is a new news group that offers a platform for citizen journalists to display their work.) I had had a Demotix account for a few months, but never posted anything to it before yesterday. Thus, I was quite pleased to receive a note from their editors letting me know that they selected one of my images for their home page (as pictured above). Pretty neat, huh?

If you'd like to see some of my other pictures, you can look at my page at Demotix.

For my long suffering teacher friends...

**That Maroochydore High School in Australia voted to have this message as its actual phone message has been proven to be false. This does not take away of the message's funniness, however. Enjoy!

Published in the International Herald Tribune!

My photo is the one on the lower left. If you can't make it out, it was published September 26, 2009. Woo hoo!

Photo published in the International Herald Tribune

Damien Walters

For Dad: the video I mentioned in our last conversation.

Scribd

I'm playing with Scribd. Here is my resumé.

Who's a guru?