We spent our first night on the bus last night. We got into Portland in the afternoon with not much time to spare. We had a lot of traffic between Seattle and Portland and also got into the wrong line at customs which delayed us a bit. The Portland event went really well with a great, enthusiastic crowd that was...

I just posted about our Vancouver stop which was a lot of fun. It's been almost non stop since we left Seattle. We've been playing some Guitar Hero and people are spending a lot of time coding. Lee Brimelow and Mike Chambers have been updating the on AIR Blog and Ted Patrick is building a chat application for our live...

We're off and running on the bus tour. We changed the front page of the site so you can track exactly where the bus is at any given time. We got off to a later start that we had planned but we had to do some promotional filming and get everyone's stuff on the bus. We also had to clear...

Hi! I'm the newest enlistee to the O'Reilly Digital Media blog, Ryan Stewart. I work as a Rich Internet Application Evangelist at Adobe and I'm going to be going to be blogging from the road during our on AIR bus tour that's passing through the western part of the United States starting on the 9th of July. This space will...

One of my jobs as a book editor is to advocate for the reader, making sure the information is accessible independently of whatever inside knowledge I might already possess. So when Derrick sent out an announcement to O'Reilly team that the new Digital Media Newsletter was ready for viewing, rather than just have him send me a copy, I thought...

Arguably the biggest concert company in the US (if not the globe), Live Nation, recently announced that they've launched a new online service called Live Nation TV. This new initiative features a vast collection of performances from a large number of venues, including the more intimate House of Blues clubs (which Live Nation purchased last Fall). Hundreds of performance clips...

If you missed it, see 60 Minutes interview with Negroponte about the teams dreams and the origin of the laptop idea....

The German webzine "heise mobil" has an excellent 8 (web)page article on the XO (English translation provided), A good review of the hardware, the XO's unique dual-mode display, the innovative software (including Etoys!) and the cooperating developers and sponsors....

The California Democratic Party held its annual convention in San Diego April 27-29, and I was there blogging, along with hundreds of other traditional and web-based reporters. Here are some observations. touch. This shot is from a rally of Barack Obama supporters just before Obama went into the main hall to address the 2,000-plus attendees. Notice the hand wrapped around...

Jessica Dolcourt posted a great article on the One Laptop Per Child initiative in Nigeria on CNET news. We are finally seeing the beginning of the first deployments of the laptop. I think we're going to be impressed with what these young children do with this technology. Photos and Video of the 3-day event also available. Nice overview of the...