Straight from the news of RIVERPORT (the soon to be published comic by yours truly) I bring you…

Zombie Attack in Riverport!

KRDO.com Colorado Springs, Pueblo - Weather, News, Sports - Police: Waiter foils alleged attempt to drug woman on date

Now, on a normal day a guy trying to drug a woman on a date is tragic, downright despicable and certainly a crime.  But that’s not why I’m here today. What impresses me here is the waiter actually stepped up and did the eight thing without hesitation. Personal responsibility is a rare thing, but taking responsibility for your fellow human is non-existent these days. The unnamed waiter didn’t do anything special, he did something right. What happened to doing the right thing?

Anyone reading this in Colorado Springs needs to find the Ruby Tuesdays this took place at and search this guy out. Don’t give him presents, flowers or throw a parade, just say “thanks”. If more people said thanks, I think more people would do the right damn thing.

Hey unnamed waiter, Thanks!

Time to do the right thing by pushing that left mouse button on a pretty pink button! The Breast Cancer Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman.

Step up!

It takes less than a minute (if that long) to go to their site and click on “donating a mammogram” for free (pink window in the middle).

This doesn’t cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate mammogram in exchange for advertising.

Here’s the web site! Pass it along to people you know.
http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/

It’s a click, people, not exactly a hard days work. Step up!

Aaron Wall (over at Web Pro News) has just put up a great little explaination /  tutorial about how (and why) to use Triggit. If you’re still on the fence, here’s a nice, hard push.

PLUS! it comes with a groovy video done up by a gent named Shoemoney…alone worth the trip, and doubles your value right away!

Go Triggit, Be Happy.

In my continuing hype about the product and company known as TRIGGIT, I bring you the latest feature from WIRED Magazine:

Specifically, I like these excerpts:

What’s not to like?

Go Triggit, Be happy!

That’s right, kiddos, the almighty Triggit (that’s www.triggit.com, folks) enters Beta today and as the godfather who named the child I couldn’t be prouder. With all seriousness, this product is rapidly becoming a force to be reckoned with…here’s what some other fine folks have said:

Rafe Needleman at WebWare says:
It makes it extremely easy to embed pictures from Flickr, videos from YouTube, affiliate sales links from Amazon, and several other types of links.

Nick Gonzalez of TechCrunch explains:
Triggit lets you make WYSIWYG edits on any site where you can post their Javascript tag, most likely your own.

Kurt Schrader at Schrade.blog declares:
This is a game-changing sort of tool that will make your life as a blogger much easier.
Stacy Higginbotham of Gagaom continues:
…Triggit would make a nice addition to a blog publisher or even a portal company such as Google or Yahoo!

There’s more out there…oh yes, folks are noticing! Haven’t tried out Triggit for yourself yet? WELL! there’s no excuse now…click on any of the links above and grab one of the limited BETA codes and give it a go like Kristen Nichol at Mashable who declared it’s like a fun little magic trick. I was presented with a blog and the triggit tool, which is a browser-based plugin that lets you search for, and place content onto the blog, which is present for any site visitor to see.

More Triggit news to come!

Der Kep!

Zach over at the Triggit blog isn’t sure what he thinks about Amazon’s new toy the Kindle. I, on the other hand, know exactly what I think…it’s a really expensive way to squint at at page…and heaven forbid you lose it. The Kindle is a great start…no question about it…the world is going that way and that’s that. Viva la technologie! BUT! At $399.00 a pop and another $9.99 for books (not paper books mind you, just the kind Kindle reads), you have to buy and read more than TWENTY K-books (assuming you by at aprox. $20 each at a Boraders bestsellers table) before you start saving any money over the paper equivilant. And unlike the paper, you can’t easilly lend it to your friends, pass it around the office or…as I often do…spill coffee on it and leave it in an airport men’s room…or if I did, I’d probably have a stroke. So, for now, I applaud Amazon for getting this to market, I look forward to playing with one, I hope i get proven wrong and the technology takes off like a bat out of hell, but unil this (or it’s decendant) gets below $100 the mass market acceptance won’t be there.

Jay at OnlineOpportunity.org has given Triggit a fantastic, honest looksee.

This is especially cool for Wordpress users, since Wordpress has traditionally had poor image management features.

TRUE! This very blog is Wordpress and it definately makes it simple!

All in all, though, a very cool technology.

Well, sure, I wouldn’t be talking so much about it if it weren’t!

Definately read what else he has to say!
(http://www.onlineopportunity.org/use-triggit-to-easily-add-images-and-links-to-your-posts/)

Still haven’t tried Triggit for yourself? Go!

http://www.triggit.com/user/login
ACCESS KEY: New

Oh my brothers, this here is mighty good indeed!

The early reviews for TRIGGIT (www.triggit.com folks…like you didn’t know) are starting to fly in and they are MIGHTY fine indeed!

Here’s the quick and the dirty (or not so dirty):

Today my breast swells with pride as my brother, the CEO of TRIGGIT, inc. gets some props as the opening salvo in a Washington Post article about Web 2.0. Zach (that being the brother) is one hell of a hard worker and more than deserving of this…but it’s damn nice to see others agree! HOORAY!

SAN FRANCISCO

At the Web 2.0 conference here in 2005 — back before Google had paid $1.65 billion for YouTube and people were talking about valuations for Facebook of $15 billion — Zach Coelius, a precocious 25-year-old who had snuck into the hall without paying, stepped up to the microphone and asked the speaker for a bit of career advice.

Start a company, replied Rupert Murdoch.

Now, two years later, Coelius has wheedled his way in again, this time to the Internet A-list party at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, sponsored by MySpace, which Murdoch purchased in 2005 for what now looks like a bargain price of $580 million. Within minutes, Coelius has pushed through the throng and buttonholed Murdoch to report on how it has all worked out — how he had parlayed a "chance" meeting with a venture capitalist into an invitation to a regular poker game with other VCs who seeded his new "widget" company with their poker losses and later with modest first-round financing. Now, with a small staff and a tested product, Triggit.com is about to launch.

For the next two minutes, the two scheming entrepreneurs traded stories, the jowly septuagenarian media mogul filling in some details of how he broke the newspaper printers union on London’s Fleet Street, the lanky young upstart riffing on the spectacular promise of social networking. It’s hard to say who was enjoying the conversation more. But like many in the room, they had the sense that this was one of those magic moments that comes along every decade or so, when nothing is certain, everything is possible and anything can be spun into gold.

Here’s the link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/18/AR2007101802462.html?sub=new

Go Zach go!!!