Looks like First Crack isn’t the only game in town. Coffee-n-Caffeine puts the PodcastMN count to 18.
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Consumer Software is the New Enterprise Software
Recently, a colleague asked for a recommendation on an enterprise asset management system. Frankly, I’ve only had bad experiences with enterprise level software. My major complaints have been; Too hard to use Too expensive Doesn’t map to existing business culture and processes I ask what this system will be used for; sharing digital photos remotely. …
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First Crack 41. Home Roasting with Sam Buchanan
Sam Buchanan and I roast up a couple of batches in my garage and talk about home roasting and coffee tasting techniques. Oh, and I celebrate Uchenna and Joyce, the winners of CBS’s Amazing Race 7. Listen to Home Roasting with Sam Buchanan [9 min]
First Crack 40. Restaurant Reviews with Scott McGerik
Scott McGerik and I discuss the best and worst of Twin Cities dining. Including: The 3 places in the Twin Cities with Juicy Lucys How to get the best sushi A bad idea at Applebee’s Listen to Restaurant Reviews with Scott McGerik [25 min]
Back in the Pioneer Press
I’d like to thank Julio Ojeda-Zapata and Leslie Brooks Suzukamo for the PodcastMN article in the Saturday Pioneer Press. The article is right, a key challenge is to lure advertisers. I’m actually not confident the advertiser-publisher relationship we’re accustomed to in radio, televison, and newspapers will effectively migrate to podcasting. As PBCliberal mentions in his …
Your Attention.xml Please
If you haven’t heard me proclaim, “RSS killed the visual web designer”, now you have. Quickly stated, RSS is a structured format for distributing text, audio (podcasting), video (vlogging), even applications in a convenient and anonymous way. For the publisher, RSS means the timeliness of email without the worry about spam filtering. For the reader, …
When the Internet is Slow, It’s Frustrating
I’ve got an announcement to make. Some of you lucky folks already know about it. Actually, the only people that don’t know about it aren’t reading this. Huh. That actually makes me feel better. Still, I anxiously await for the DNS to propagate. It’s official – PodcastMN is up.
Minneapolis Scobleized
Tim, Cody, Chuck and I grabbed a drink with Robert Scoble tonight. And I also met local open source CMS developer Tim Broeke from ElectricJet. If you’re finger isn’t on the pulse of weblogs, Scoble is Microsoft’s überblogger. He was in town to start a conversation with Target. I applaud Target for this. There are …
What else isn’t a crime?
On the 40 acres of rural Wisconsin farmland I grew up on, I build a skateboard mini-ramp. Southern California skateboard and BMX stunt culture was injected into my world of cows and cornfields on a monthly basis via the USPS and magazines like Thrasher, Slap, Freestylin’. Throughout those magazines was the Skateboarding is not a …
Learning Ruby – Day 14
Day 14 – Blocks, Procs, and the Others I get it. Seven pages into Day 14 trying to figure out what other meant in Slagell’s examples and it clicks. In other languages I’m familiar with (Applescript, PHP, Perl, REALbasic) variables are passed through methods. Example if we have a method that’s friendly, function SayHiTo($name) { …