There’s been a shuffle over at the gPod. Since JoCo’s Thing a Week project is over (go buy the discs) – I’ve replaced it with the equally geeky and entertaining Joyent podcast. The banter between Dave, Jason and the others is almost exactly what I want from a technology conversation podcast – just that little …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Pipes v. Seeds
I’ve been asked if Yahoo Pipes is like FeedSeeder. Sorta. Both merge multiple feeds and allow a level of filtering on the results within a browser-based interface. Though, that description includes quite a few other projects as well. So, I thought a Q&A would be a better way to compare and contrast [P]ipes and [F]eedSeeder. …
Behind the Blog: Norwegianity
The Wege goes in-depth on all the reasons Norwegianity is a must-read. Cursing: “…my policy on swearing – I’m for it.” So few people know how to effectively curse – The Wege does. Sloppy, ineffective, low-vocabulary cursing is so prevalent that his use of ‘fuck’ (as in “Fuck the new Republican party”) is refreshing. Music: …
Note to Self: Stop Using Eric Rice’s Brain
Listening to the Joyeur podcast on Twitter, I made a note to look into fictional Twitter accounts. Then I see this post by Eric Rice: “By setting up a character-driven, fictional Twitter account, not only can I do a sultry little dance on the fine line of ARGs (alternate reality gaming), but that 140 character …
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Lineage
Darrin points to the MIT SIMILE project. The lifeline/timeline visualization is similar to something I’ve been working on for the Genealogy Namespace for OPML project. While it’s cool to see a single person’s timeline, far more interesting to me in the intersection and relationship between multiple people (a marriage isn’t just one-sided, a birth has …
Luckmaking in Place
“Placemaking takes time and sometimes just plain dumb luck. No planner envisioned it all, first laying out the grid of streets and creating a zoning code for Dinkytown, then deciding precisely that an alley was to be converted to become the location of a breakfast counter and a legendary, delicious business.” – Sam Newberg A …
Postponed Due to Lack of Vision
I’ve been fighting with one aspect of FeedSeeder for quite a while now. None of the approaches I’ve taken ended up solving the problem in a useful way – many of them just mucked it up worse. The imaginary screen in my head that tells me ‘what it should be’ was blank and it was …
First Crack 95. Darrin Homme on Improving Local Competitive Bicycle Racing
Darrin’s raced bicycles for probably half the two decades+ I’ve known him. Inspired by Darrin’s USCF My Way post, I asked him to unpack the problems in local competitive bike racing that his points would solve. Listen to Darrin Homme on Improving Competitive Bicycle Racing [24 min].
Congrats to Tekdiff – Reaching 100th Episode
Congrats to Cayenne Chris and Tekdiff in reaching the 100 episode milestone. One of the longest running and still the funniest comedy podcasts around. Back in First Crack #45 – Cayenne and I talked about Tekdiff.
First Step’s the Hardest
“Success comes when you create something you want and need — and then find other people like you who agree they need and want it also.” – Rex Hammock