I RIDE FOR LIVESTRONG by Purpose in the NY Times Media Decoder Blog! I was in charge of the music and audio and also worked on animation and visual/interaction design. Stuart Elliot reports: A new agency whose name, Purpose, signals the kind of campaigns it hopes to produce is creating for Livestrong, the Lance Armstrong [...]

While I was in “Teherangeles” visiting the family last week, I went to check out Attari Sandwich Shop in Westwood (1388 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90024). We started with a Shirazi salad, a simple and refreshing chopped salad of tomato, cucumber, and onion. Next course was Ash-e joe, a thick soup with lentils, black [...]

I checked out Kogi, the much-hyped Los Angeles Korean BBQ Taco truck when I was in town visiting the family last week.  We followed them on Twitter and drove out to Encino to wait in line for the Korean/Mexican fusion food cart.  They have multiple trucks that park at different locations in LA on different [...]

Some photos from an epic New Years Eve in LA with Elizabeth and Jonathan: More NYE photos on Flickr.

Here are audio recordings I made of the speakers from last night’s ccSalon SF at PariSoMa.  Right click or control-click on the speakers’ names to download the MP3s. Chris DiBona, Open Source Program Manager for Google, Inc. Evan Prodromou, co-Founder of WikiTravel and founder of Identi.ca Nathan Yergler, Creative Commons’ Chief Technology Officer