I briefly tested the Internet-friendly luxury-taxi Uber service on a commute. Details here.

I’m thrilled to have met New York Times tech columnist David Pogue, who is in Minnesota for speaking gigs. Details here.

I just discovered this great shot of Lee Odden, with yours truly in the background, at the 2011 Minnesota Bloggers Conference. Lee was the keynote speaker that year. The photo was originally posted here.

Here are fun shots by Teresa Boardman and Missy Bickel Berggren of yours truly as the main attraction at today’s Social Media Breakfast/Minneapolis St. More …

Every half-decade or decade, St. Paul Pioneer Press writers have their “mugs” reshot. Ben Garvin, one of the paper’s amazing photographers, shot these today. More …

Here’s more imagery from last weekend’s Minnesota Bloggers Conference.

This collage shows conference organizer Missy Bickel Berggren and yours truly using iPhones to document the amazing goings-on.

The photos are on the Ms. Giggles site.

I was a morning speaker at the third Minnesota Bloggers Conference, held today in Minneapolis. I spoke about Google+ and the Google social network’s potential as a blogging platform. More …

My esteemed coworker and fellow gadget geek John Brewer was leaving work via the Pioneer Press front lobby when he spotted me about to be interviewed by Fox 9 News.

He tweeted:

Walk out of the newsroom and into an @ojezap live shot. #represent twitter.com/JBrewerPiPress…

— John Brewer (@JBrewerPiPress) September 21, 2012

I was a guest on the Minnov8 Gang podcast via smartphone while at Minneapolis’ Uptown Apple store, where the iPhone 5 was just going on sale.

The gang and I had a vigorous conversation about the relative merits of Apple and Google mobile tech. The chat got heated at times.

As usual, Steve Borsch came up with funny artwork the show’s blog post (no, I don’t really reside at the Stillwater prison). More …