Overheard in a meeting today: “You’re going to be less recipient and more participant.” Seems like a pretty good description of how this media landscape is changing.
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
How To Set Up Subversion, svnX, for TextDrive on OS X
I’m walking through the latest beta version of Agile Web Development with Rails 2nd Edition, specifically the new bits on deploying Rails apps. Capistrano – the preferred and recommended deployment utility. Thing is – Capistrano hinges on Subversion. Not something covered in AWDwR or appropriate to be covered. There’s plenty of other books on the …
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I’m Still In Here
The office I’m spending the day in has motion detectors on the lights. I sat too perfectly still for too long and the room went black. Hey. I’m still in here.
MN Governor e-Debate 2006 First Impressions
Steven Clift is moderating the 2006 MN Gubernatorial candidate e-dbate. I’ve been following along via the RSS feed. Ever day a new question – perfect. This is exactly how I like my politics – integrated into how I do everything already (RSS). The questions are good, the answers are surprisingly good considering it’s a ‘political …
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We Aggregate and Filter Each Other
Great post over at the Pomo blog, Pardon my removal of the blacklisted buzzwords. 😉 “Because there are far more people creating content than there is time for people to consume it. Therefore, trusted, smart filters… become desirable. Who does the filtering? Sometimes, it’s a person or people, but increasingly we consumers do it ourselves” …
The Evil Genius Asks About the First Crack Podcast
Dave Slusher turned the mic on me at the recent PodcastExpo 2006. We talked about hyper-local podcasts and the two reasons why I podcast.
Amazing Race Season 10 – Episode 3 & 4
CBS and TiVo have been fighting the past few Sunday nights – CBS has been throwing off the start time of the Amazing Race by 15 to 30 minutes, and TiVo – hasn’t been able to figure it out. Since we only watch AR via TiVo. We’ve been missing the back half of each AR. …
Leo Laporte Gives Up on Podcasting
I’ve subscribed to the Daily Giz Wiz for quite a while now – the combination of goofy banter, unloved gadgets, generally silliness, and it’s brevity makes for great podcasting. It’s the only TWIT-family podcast I was still subscribed. Unfortunately, in today’s – #166 – the new TWIT intro calls it a ‘netcast’. Lame. What’s a …
Rule 1: Be Useful Without an Account
Software as She’s Developed bring reminds us about lazy registration, i.e. a system that’s useful to people just kicking the tires, or just don’t want to set up another name/pass combination. I’ve baked this into the FeedSeeder project (see the 2nd screencast). I’m working on the deployment recipe right now, so I should be able …