About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
As Jeff Williamson, co-owner of St. Paul’s Flat Earth Brewing Co. awaits kegs to distribute the first batch of Flat Earth Pale Ale, he and I talk about;
Listen to Jeff Williamson on St. Paul’s Flat Earth Brewery [16 min].
It’s that time of year again – the time of year when SXSW releases their 3GB torrent files containing 739 mp3s this year’s Showcasing Bands.
Yippee!
And like past years, I’ll be keeping you up to date on my picks.
Listen to me read the actual email I received from a kraft.com domain.
I question its authenticity, but then, its from the place that brought us cheese food.
UPDATE:
I just received confirmation that the message did come from a Kraft “Senior Associate Brand Manager”, and I’m not the only one in PodcastMN land to receive the message. More updates to follow.
While it’s not astroturfing or splogging, it still gets added to the “How not to engage bloggers for marketing” pile.
This weekend, Dan Gillmor is doing a workshop on how to make public-access TV relevant. His thoughts echo those I wrote about in, “Add Cable Public Access to the Endangered Species List“. Namely, it’s an artifact of a time when publishing was hard and expensive for citizens to do.
My recommendation for cable companies to fulfill their community requirement: “offer bandwidth [to the community]. Lots and lots of it, with BitTorrent thrown in.”
Here’s some choice excerpts from Dan:
“In the meantime…help members of the community learn modern media production techniques.”
ELSEWHERE:
I’m with Aaron, I don’t quite get Twitter. If you want to know what’s on my mind…read this blog. What I do get about Twitter is really, really fast publishing. The faster, the better.
So, I cooked up a little script (11 lines) to post directly to this blog from Quicksilver. If you’ve got a WordPress blog, or blog that understands the MetaWeblogAPI (though, I’ve only tested it on WP).
So, if you want to twitter on your own blog…download QSPress.
The posts look something like this and hey, no character limits. 😉
More on the QSPress page
LATER:
Eric, I say this script is proof XML-RPC isn’t dead.
Last time I checked, Flickr’s ‘blog this’ was XML-RPC. Copy-and-Paste and XML-RPC are two different things. C-and-P exists because video needs at least one ’embed’ tag and well, that’s hard. Add to that, XML-RPC needs an end-point url and a password, that’s a level of complexity above – ‘here take this code’. They serve two different functions – though the final product looks similar.
the first post of the day – written from quicksilver.
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