Garrick Van Buren's gFeed

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• Soft Landing?
  I’m not a fan of roller coaster rides, so this is almost comforting compared to California, Florida, or Arizona. Thanks to Mark Perry for the pointer.
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• “It’s been devastating to innovation”
  While listening to John Gruber & Dan Benjamin’s - The Talk Show #24, I was reminded about one of my pet peeves with all the free software - it completely kills the innovation1. John and Dan were talking about email. I feel the same way about email clients as I do about feed readers - they’re [...]
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• First Crack 110. Bruno Bornsztein on Open Sourcing CommunityEngine
  Bruno Bornsztein and I talk about; Open-sourcing CommunityEngine - the social network code behind Curbly, Uncooped, Teacherly, and many other community sites. Bootstrapping and maintaining a successful niche community site. Listen to Bruno Bornsztein on Open Sourcing CommunityEngine [24 min].
  Originally published at First Crack Podcast with Garrick Van Buren
• I’d Rather I Could Read You Here
  “the more time I spend w/ FriendFeed, the less I like it. I’d rather read y’all through my own blog.” If services like Friendfeed, Twitter, etc, have an innovation, it’s in present reading and publishing in the save view. This single view - often described as ‘presence’ or ’social-ness’ - makes it easy to write [...]
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• Are Some RSS Formats More Reliable/Faster than Others?
  via Twitter, I was asked the above question. It’s a good question, cutting to the core of my ambivalence over the religious wars between RSS, Atom, etc. The flavor of XML a feed is published in shouldn’t matter. Neither to the publisher nor the receiver. Any parser able to handle multiple flavors should be able to [...]
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• Presentation for MIMA’s Info Overload Panel
  4:30 minutes of my own back channel. Quicktime Here’s the recording of the full event: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/563535 2 Comments At 16 July 2008 (3 weeks ago), Nicole Netland wrote:Wish I could have seen the presentation in person. Bummed to miss it.At 17 July 2008 (3 weeks ago), Social Information Hoarder: MIMA’s Data Overload Panel and Helpful Links wrote:[...] My [...]
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• Snippet: Copy MySQL Databases Over SSH
  I needed to copy a database and the idea of backing it up just to re-import1 seemed like double the work. Here’s a snippet to pipe a mysqldump into a remote database. Keep an eye on the user names and passwords - you’ll need 3 sets; one for the database your copying, one to get [...]
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• Ruby on Rails Snippet for Changing Relative Paths to Absolute
  If you have a bunch of text containing relative path hyperlinks, and you’d like to change to them to absolute paths, you might find this snippet helpful. content = "some text with a <a href='/path/to/relative_link/'>relative link</a>" link = "http://somedomain.com/" content.gsub(/=('|")\//, '=\1*/').gsub(/\*\//, link.match(/(http|https):\/\/[\w.]+\//)[0]) The asterisk ‘*’ is a hackey placeholder for the actual link swapped in with the second gsub. [...]
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• Book Curation
  “…we are going smaller, we are going less.” - Bodo von Hodenberg, bookseller - Bildschöne Bücher, Berlin Germany BTW - I found this link on my economics reading list in Cullect which proves (at least to me) that good curation is about both depth and discovery.
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• Quoted in APM’s ‘The Pork Wars on YouTube’
  As part of APM’s Public Insight Journalism program, I was interviewed as about the use of sites like YouTube for political issues (vs. campaigns) - specifically in the context of the recent tennis match between animal rights groups vs farm industry groups. Here’s the bit of my interview they used on-air and online. “Garrick Van Buren is [...]
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• Jon Gordon’s Twin Cities Coffee WiFi Google Map Started
  Jon Gordon’s going to be in the Twin Cities for a while and he thought it’d be fun to review the local selection of independent coffee + wifi shops. As part of that effort, I’ve started a Google Map for listing and pin-pointing these places. There’s also a handful of invites floating around to for those [...]
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• First Crack 109. Tumblon.com’s Jonathan Dahl
  Jonathan Dahl and I discuss his latest project - Tumblon.com - a parenting website focused on development milestones and easy sharing with friends and family. Listen to Tumblon.com’s Jonathan Dahl [9 min]. A more detailed write-up and some screenshots over at Minnov8.com
  Originally published at First Crack Podcast with Garrick Van Buren
• First Crack 108. Coffee Review - Honduras, El Filo - 49th Parallel Roasters
  This is the third in the monthly coffee review series at the First Crack Podcast. This month, I’m reviewing Miguel Moreno Leiva - El Filo as roasted by 49th Parallel Roasters. It’s a very subtle and floral cup with powerful aroma off the grind. Andrew described it to me as, “technically good.” I quite agree. It’s [...]
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• First Crack 107. DJ Edna - Open Source Website for Musicians
  Thomas Bohmbach and I discuss DJ Edna, his open source project empowering musicians, and other artists, to take control of the sales and distribution of their creative work online. DJ Edna - Open Source Website for Musicians [33 min].
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• First Crack 106. Coffee Review - El Salvador: Finca La Montaña
  This is the second in the monthly coffee review series at the First Crack Podcast. This month, I’m reviewing George Howell’s Terroir Coffee: El Salvador: Finca La Montaña The 2007 Cup of Excellence winner that was completely devastated by near hurricane-strength winds in January. Pushing the next harvest out to 2010. In response to this tragedy, [...]
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• First Crack 105. Coffee Review - Grand Cru Kenya: Mamuto, Kirinyaga
  This podcast kicks off a new monthly coffee review series at the First Crack Podcast. This month, I’m reviewing: George Howell’s Terroir Coffee: Kenya Mamuto Kirinyaga First, it took me a while to tweak the grinder back for a good press pot. In that time, the time was ticking on the coffee itself. Lesson learned for [...]
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• First Crack 104. The Moustache Rangers on a Podcast
  I was forced out of my podcasting hiatus by the The Moustache Rangers, a highly-entertaining, improv’ed, space-comedy duo. Aric (also of MakeMeWatchTV and LeastDangerousGame fame) and Cory share the backstory of the Rangers, the mythos of the Great Moustache, and the emotional power of guacomole. If like me, you’re a fan of Teknikal Diffikulties, you’ll [...]
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• I’ll Be Back
  AJ gave me call today wondering when there was going to be another First Crack podcast. Thanks AJ! The answer - Soon. I hope. I’ve been working on a new podcast receiver app, which is eating up all my podcast production time. Then there’s the bit about needing some new inspiration. There’s something new fermenting. I’m [...]
  Originally published at First Crack Podcast with Garrick Van Buren
• I’ll be at PodcampMN - Aug 25, 2007
  A gentle reminder to add your name to the PodcampMN 2007 attendee list wiki. Thanks to Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial and Boned for the great capture-the-flag-at-summer-camp logo. See you there.
  Originally published at First Crack Podcast with Garrick Van Buren
• PodcampMN at Flat Earth on Aug 25, 2007
  Yes, it’s official. PodcampMN, August 25th, the Saturday before Labor Day, at the Flat Earth Brewery in St. Paul. The goal is to try to accomplish some real, dirty, uncomfortable work… as Eric Rice describes it. If you haven’t yet, add your name and other things you’d like to both share and learn about to the wiki: http://podcamp.pbwiki.com/PodCampMinnesota Thanks [...]
  Originally published at First Crack Podcast with Garrick Van Buren