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Hi folks, this is Chris Mojo Dimbo(?) coming to you live from Interstate 59, headed towards home but I’m stuck in commuter traffic, and its nice, wet(?), waiting […] all kinds of good fun here. So, hope your commute is well or hopefully you are a work from home tele-commuter(?). Enjoy your night. Talk to you later.
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Vulcan Trail Stroll


On Sunday, the Denbows decided to enjoy the nice weather and take a stroll on the Vulcan Trail. We brought the camera, of course and snapped a few pics off using the fisheye lens attachment. The daughter was asleep through the whole thing. She’ll get used to the daddy paparazzi and the hiking, for sure!
Sunday night found her awake and fussy until I cranked up BB King’s “Paying The Cost To Be The Boss” and Stevie Ray Vaughn’s “Pride & Joy”.

She is like her father in so many ways, including loving the Blues because she was asleep almost instantly.

-ing

Reading- Girls- An Owner’s Manual

Watching- Heroes and The Office. Excellent shows while waiting for Lost and Battlestar Galactica to come back on.

Listening- to Led Zeppelin box set on the iPod

Doing- working on photos with my baby girl around my neck

Eating- breakfasty things like eggs, bacon and hash browns…mmmm

 

Thanks for the post suggestion that was shamelessly stolen from Kristen at This Classical Life!

All That Jazz

Congratulations to Leah Tucker and the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame for putting on a fantastic all-day jazz festival this weekend. Saturday’s crowds beat the heat with good food and great music. There was easily 5,000 people on one street at any given time which is impressive since the Sidewalk Moving Picture festival was going on at the same time. I was asked to shoot the event and was able to get some great portraits and stage shots of the artists who were more than happy to have their pictures snapped.

Annie Sellick & the Jazz Hall of Fame Annie Sellick

Cleve Eaton Cleve Eaton

Crowd Pleaser the crowd pleaser

Mayor Bernard Kincaid and Former NBA Player Mayor Kincaid

4th Avenue Jazz Festival Taste of 4th Ave Jazz Fest

Feeding & Digesting

For a few years now, I have ingested ginormous amounts of content from the internet through RSS feeds I have subscribed to over 300 website’s RSS feeds. This prevents me from visiting each website individually and aggregates them into my feed reader of choice, which is currently Feed Demon. In the past I have tried most readers and really liked Bloglines and Google Reader. Feed Demon is paid desktop software while the other 2 are free web-based apps. But it is your choice in how you want to be served!

So what do I do with all 300 websites that generate on average 3 posts a day each? How does anyone assimilate and digest that much mental food? Let me clarify here: I don’t read ALL of them. In fact, I scan over a few posts to find anything of interest. When I do find something relevant and noteworthy, I’ll read it and use it. If I can’t use it then,  I will flag or save that post for future reference. Think of it as a bookmark to go back to when you have the time or pass on the second helping, thanks.

Also, when flagging for future use, I will highlight a link and tag & save it to my Delicious bookmarks, again, insuring that I will see it and use it.

So when picking through the buffet of web content I chose the finest morsels, feeds that will enrich me and make my world more productive and fun. According to Feed Demon, my top ten feeds I pay attention to (this week) are:

1.      Lifehacker

2.      Mashable

3.      Cybernet Technology News

4.      Boing Boing

5.      Webware.com

6.      TechCrunch

7.      Web Worker Daily

8.      The Terminal

9.      Laughing Squid

10.  Read/Write Web

If I want to see what is going on in the internets, I can view all of the aggregated Popular Topics from the past 48 hours (as of 9/26) according to all of my feeds.

1.      MySpace launches free mobile service

2.      Sketchcast blogging tool

3.      WordPress 2.3 released

4.      Diigo social annotation tool

5.      Microsoft plans to invest in Facebook

6.      One Laptop Per Child

When feeds include audio or video podcasts, you can bet that they are either consumed on my desktop or transferred to my iPod so I can feed while on the go. Get your brain fed while you work out or commute to work!

That is one of the arguments for RSS feeds: Your news brought to you and consumed by you in the manner and times of your choosing.

Want to subscribe to the Mojo Network feeds that delivers content to you? Add this link from Combo Mojo to your feed reader and enjoy!

Double Dumbass-ness

  1. If, when you are dining in a restaurant or shopping, please refrain from using the walkie-talkie feature of your Nextel phone. No one wants to hear that #$@^& chirp sound, nor the ensuing conversation. Also, the mic picks up your voice. You don’t have to yell into the walkie to be heard, dumbass!
  2. If you are a smoker and threw your cancer stick outside of your moving vehicle during the summer-long drought and soaring temps, you are a dumbass. Also, smoking in the car with your window cracked will not prevent your car from smelling like an ashtray,  dumbass.

The Locals

Even though I have met tons of new people and have sneaked my way into various people networks, there are still a few folks to see. Here are a few peeps I haven’t met yet but read their blogs. There are also places to discover that I haven’t been to yet. I smell a few meetups.

People listed are not in order of popularity…

Ike Pigott-Occam’s Razr

Doug Gillett- Hey Jenny Slater

Traci & Leah, the super cool chicks of RedBlondehead

Jean Goforth of Go Forth Alabama

Brian T. Murphy- Worstblogintheworld

Places here in town I’d like to go to but haven’t had the chance yet

The BottleTree Cafe

J. Clyde

Sidewalk Moving Picture Fest

 Sidewalk 2007

Sloss Fright Furnace

So who is the first to buy me an import beer?

Shameless Self Promotion

Photo Mojo Birmingham Mag Scan, originally uploaded by Photo-Mojo.

In all the hubbub of Daphne being born and family in/out of town, I realized I hadn’t mentioned some other good news. Recently, Photo Mojo was featured in the September 2007 edition of Birmingham Magazine as an article for the Magic City Flickr Group

Here is a 2 page scan stitched together and the mag cover. Thanks to Carla Jean who wrote/edited the article.

Cover: