Aaron Roe(bot) Fulkerson Open source entrepreneur and digital viking.
About Me
I am a founder and the Chief Executive Officer of MindTouch, a popular open source business application and collaboration platform used by millions. Read more.
Morgan Hill, CA
May 8, 2007 — Aaron FulkersonI grew up in Morgan Hill, CA. It’s just south of San Jose. When I was a kid Morgan Hill was mostly orchards and fields. My family's home was nestled at the base of the Santa Cruz mountains just north of town. There were lots of plum orchards, grape vines, lettuce fields, and other agriculture. I just came across the following Morgan Hill public service announcement from 1938 that played at the old Granada movie theater. Watch the video. It's about local businesses. The only business I think that's still in operation today is Guntner Brothers feed store. The business that stood out most to me was "Morgan Hill Sanitary Bakery". If I recall this put out of business the "Morgan Hill Contaminated Bakery".
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xumF72tQYTE]
The last time I was in a theater with my father was at the Granada. It was "Ground Hog Day". Great movie. That was also the year I graduated from high school. Cool movie. Thanks a bunch to the dude who posted this on YouTube. Also, thanks a bunch to Stephen Musgrave & Tim Roach who are the two dudes who run the Live Oak Alumni Network, which is how I indirectly learned of this video.
Tara Blogs
February 18, 2007 — Aaron FulkersonAfter years of me cajoling Tara she’s finally started blogging. She’s video-logging at blogger: my bunnybear, which happens to be the name of Ashby’s favorite stuffed animal. I couldn’t convince her to use WordPress (open source), but blogger seems pretty cool with how easy it is to tweak skins and site layout. She’s just using her little Elph digital camera right now. We have an old digital 8MM, but it’s just so big. Maybe we should be looking for a nice (cheap) small mini-dv camera. Uploading videos with Google Video’s desktop uploader is a snap. It surely seems superior to uploading to YouTube via their webform. However, both sites ask too many damn questions when you upload. They want tags, descrips, titles, all kinds of nonsense. Still very easy though.
Media Reform
January 22, 2007 — Aaron FulkersonDid you follow events of the National Conference for Media Reform Conference that was recently held in Memphis, TN? If not, your media is crap. It has been well covered by a couple media streams I consume. Namely the wonderful Democracy Now! and On the Media had coverage. It seems the conference is organized by Free Press, which oddly just recently came to my attention as well. I had no idea this conference was taking place. Had I known, I would have really liked to have been there. This was an important event. A very important event. Do you remember that PBS dude? Bill…uhhh…Moyers or something?
Well, holy crap did he give a speech! I’ve been planning on posting about the keynote address he gave at the event. He makes so many points that I feel very strongly about that I had intended on doing a point by point write up. However, his speech was so damn good I would only be doing it an injustice. This was one of the most powerful and important speeches I’ve heard…in my life to date really; at least, due to it’s relevance today. If you have not heard this, you’re doing yourself a disservice. You can hear the condensed version at Democracy Now! and read the transcript or listen to the MP3, which in some ways is more impactful than the video provided below via YouTube (in case you’re a ‘tard, and I know there are a few of you here, you can just click the play arrow below to view the video) Part One: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLK-rK3rfW8]
Part Two:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaK3tSVu68k]
Finally, watch Amy Goodman’s address. It’s powerful and equally important. It also includes a peculiar fact regarding Rumsfeld.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syeiiob_DoI]
