I just finished up my stint directing a reporters camp in San Rafael (see previous post for more details). Lots of fun turning kids on to multimedia reporting. Nick News — a kid-focused news show on Nickelodeon — called us yesterday. They’ll be coming out next month to film me and some of the kids for a piece they’re doing on summer camps. So if you watch Nickelodeon on a regular basis, keep an eye out for me…

A gallery of all the slideshows is in the works. As soon as that’s up, I’ll link to it. In the meantime, follow this link to watch a slideshow the kids produced last week, after we took a trip out to Infineon Raceway.

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This past weekend, in celebration of my upcoming 30th birthday, my girlfriend Kate surprised me with a trip to wine country. The first thing on the itinerary was a skydiving adventure.

(In response, my family has subsequently promised Kate a wonderful waterboarding experience for the holidays…)

I put together a narration of the experience with a couple photos, below.

Enjoy.

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Every year, on the final Sunday of October, San Francisco’s Bernal Hill Park is host to the Illegal Soapbox Derby. There’s nothing really illegal about it, from what I’ve read. It’s just not an officially sanctioned soapbox derby. And rightly so.

The event isn’t about winning or losing. It’s about how you’re able to survive flying down a hillside lined with barbequeing onlookers, without spilling your beer. In fact, the only rule of entry in the derby — a rule not so much enforced as encouraged — is that your ride has a mounted beer holder.

I didn’t collect any audio at yesterday’s derby, but I did run around and take a bunch of photos. Enjoy.

(Click the play/pause button on the far-right to run the slideshow, or use the navigation tools to manually select photos.)

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The CCIA - Computer and Communications Industry Assocation - filed a complaint this morning with the FTC, against the NFL, Major League Baseball, Dreamworks and other media companies, with regard to their copyright statements. While the Fair Use Doctrine allows for the use of copyrighted material in certain circumstances, these media companies tend to use overbearing and, as the CCIA argues, misleading copyright statements. Often times, websites receive takedown notices for materials that are not infringing on copyright laws.

All of this stems from the lack of a standard, clear copyright statement, which the CCIA hopes the FTC will create.

More on:
The CCIA’s complaint here.
Copyright and Fair Use here.
The NFL’s battle with Professor Wendy Seltzer here. Seltzer’s NFL post here.

(the opening clip in today’s audio is from a Michael Moore press conference)

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An entire team dropped out of the Tour de France today, after a member failed his A sample blood test following a victory on Saturday.

(sound clip from the movie Breaking Away)

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This past weekend, the Tour de Fat came to Golden Gate Park. It’s a free, traveling festival put on by New Belgium Brewing Company, makers of Fat Tire Beer, that celebrates bicycles, beer and sustainable living. More than 6,500 people came to show off their bikes, drink some beer and enjoy the entertainment, leaving behind only 12 pounds of trash.

All the profits from food and beer sales go to local non-profits. In this case, the recipients were the San Francisco Bike Coalition and the Bay Area Ridge Trails Council.

Here’s a photo slide show of Saturday’s events. Click the play button on the far right side to start the automated slideshow, or click on the numbers to manually select a photo.

The audio (below the slideshow) is meant to accompany the slideshow, so just hit play on both, and sit back and relax.

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In the past two days, there’s been a crazy amount of steroids news. Apparently, not even golf is safe.

Celebrate Hank Aaron by getting your “755 Without the Juice” t-shirt here.

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