Adventures Of Ben

On my quest for world records I have come accross some great people. One of them is Roz Savage and she has rowed accross the Atlantic and is almost half way across the Pacific and about to land in Hawaii. She is doing this for the environment and so far has done this on donations alone. Here is the favor I ask of you. Please go to the Members Project for american express and vote for Roz to help her get the funding she needs to finish crossing the ocean and to help bring awareness to what we are doing to our planet. You do not have to have a american express card all you have to do is sign up as a guest member and vote. PLAEASE PLEASE do this for me will ya. Now I am just asking for a few moments of your time to help us saver our planet. SO GO VOTE!!!! And do it before Sept 1st. Sorry for the short notice but any vote helps.

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Here I am on the canoe clubs dock filming Greg and trying out the iPhone Wordpress client. This is a good trial for when we do the record attempt.

This is a re-post from my friends site… CLICK HERE TO ENTER

The farthest distance a human has travelled under his own power on flat water is 242 km by Carter Johnson on April 29-30, 2006 on Lake Merced, California using a Huki S1-x surfski kayak. On the week of July 27 to August 2, Canadian Greg Kolodziejzyk is going to challenge Carter’s record using a specially designed, state of the art carbon fiber pedal powered boat called Critical Power 2.

Hey all, I am trying to help to stop a monopoly in Canada. I cannot even get close to explaining this well but go here and have a read and please sign the petition and help us out.

In summary for what you pay for a iPhone and data package in the rest of the world you would need to have the phone for 3-5 years to pay what we would in 1 year! There are two cell phone companies in Canada and they are exploiting us. This site has been up for less than a week now and has 30 000 signatures. This will give you an idea of how upset the public is with this. SIGN THE PETITION for us will  ya.

http://www.ruinediphone.com/

I am finally getting things together and pitching my long standing idea of creating a online video show called "Record Breaker Labs". Having helped break 3 world records and shooting for one more this summer and more to follow in the next year with Greg and www.AdventuresOfGreg.com or PedalTheOcean.com I think there is a fair amount of great entertaining content to share with others and I am going to do my best to make it happen, as soon as possible.

 I have also been approached by and searching for others that would like to join the Record Breaker Labs teams and have myself film them on their journeys and if need be, advise and help in the enginerding to fulfill the records. So far on the slate are ice boating records from www.speedspecialists.com, Traction Kite records on land and on ice, water rockets and all sorts of other projects in the works. Stay tuned…

I am currently at the nextMEDIA conference in Banff Alberta and will be meeting with some of the power players in the online content area…. Wish me luck!

p.s. Like my new logo?

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Found a cool site the other day Animoto.com so I have put in one of my favorite songs and some pics of my recent past…

I have made it through the book. What a great read! I am excited on what the future may hold for me if this all works. Now what I am going to do is make this a full blown podcast style with full video editing etc etc…. Basically what this means to you is that you will have to wait a week or so for the first episode(s) I will try and have 3 editied and ready for release at any point in time to ensure that there is a steady flow of entertainment.

Also I will be going to SanFrancisco for some work and to visit with Roz Savage and possibly Leo Laporte this is where Tim Ferriss lives from what I can summize and while trying to not look like a stalker or bounty hunter I would like to track him down and ask him for some help. If any of you know how to contact him or know him please let me know. It is so much easier to chat with someone when you have people in common than if you just cold call or pop up out of no where.

~Ben 

I have been reading a hyped book lately The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss and I am currently reading it cover to cover and then I think I will go through step by step and do a video blog of it. Here is my theory… I will start and follow the book to the letter and after a few casts have been made then call the author up and suggest that it would be in his best interest to help and mentor me to prove that the system works. I am not sure it will work to get his attention but, hey, you never know unless you try right? That way I can get the best mentorship on the book and share the journey with you.

I am sure there will be some embarrassing moments and thoughts I will have to share with the world, scary but in a weird way kind of fun and exillerating at the same time… I should be out in LA / SanFrancisco and area next month, I am not positive but am pretty sure he lives in SanFrancisco because Veronica Belmont of Mahalo Daily podcast  (one of my favorite geek casts) interviewed him at his house one episode and I will assume they don’t travel that much for the podcast.

I am shooting for finishing the book this week and I will start my crazy and hopefully successful endeavor in the next week or so. Stay tuned!

I will also be seeking out any major podcasters in LA and SanFrancisco to get tips advice and help in the casts I am doing and will be doing in the future. If any of you have some suggestions on who to visit or have contacts for me please leave them in my comments section by clicking on the "Discuss" link at the end of this post. People I would like to see and visit are Leo Laporte the guy behind TWIT (This Week In Tech) Roz Savage about to row across the Pacific , Patric Norton of Tekzilla  and any other of the talented people at Revision3 finally Robert Scoble at FastCompany

~Ben