I started that blog a couple years before Tumblr was founded. I had a Tumblr site for a while just for tech experiments ("bits on the wire"), but decided to merge them. They may have improved since then, but at the time I didn't like the sharing system (pages with 100s of "shared by bob, shared by jane), or the content ("fuck yeah this, fuck yeah that"). Has the community and layout improved, then?
I personally don't blog - its something I've been wanting to get into. Just seems nowadays Tumblr is the norm since its easy, shareable, social yadda yadda
Trying to figure out how it was that my big dumb self not only deleted one of my Slicehosts (on purpose) but also apparently deleted the backups of the database that were exported, the other host to which I was making longer term backups, and my backups of the backups all within the past month.
Alternately, trying to find caches of the content. I had some 'An Extremely Gentle Introduction to x" type of posts on the blog that people seem to be missing. :-\
Fixing a few (mostly mobile) bugs and trying my damndest to market http://flapcast.com -- A web app for streaming and sharing your podcasts.
Interesting - is Podcasting still something that people record / listen to? I'm uneducated in that area and am wondering (I feel like with all the social media, video etc podcasting has taken a backseat - am I wrong?)
I am working on Airball - http://airball.in - an elegant dribbble viewer built with Backbone.js. I am also trying to make a Titanium desktop app out of it.
Looks great. Clean and easy to use. Whats the reason for creating? Side project? Something else?
Fixing a few (mostly mobile) bugs and trying my damndest to market http://flapcast.com -- A web app for streaming and sharing your podcasts.
Interesting - is Podcasting still something that people record / listen to? I'm uneducated in that area and am wondering (I feel like with all the social media, video etc podcasting has taken a backseat - am I wrong?)
The podcasting world is huge and very, very active. I love podcasts because I'm a big multitasker and they are a great way to learn new things while doing something else. They're awesome for catching up on tech news (e.g. the 'This week in' podcasts; Buzz out loud; there's even a Hacker News podcast), or learn new things (NPR's Fresh Air and KERA's Think Podcast are some of my favorites for great discussions on random topics), or just for fun (there are lots of great comedians that have podcasts such as Joe Rogan or Marc Maron). In fact, the podcast-o-sphere is so large that it can be hard to decide what to listen to, which is why I'd like to build out Flapcast.com as a sort of social network for sharing your favorite podcasts (I've already implemented the basics of this but there's lots of work to be done).
Interesting - is Podcasting still something that people record / listen to? I'm uneducated in that area and am wondering (I feel like with all the social media, video etc podcasting has taken a backseat - am I wrong?)
The podcasting world is huge and very, very active. I love podcasts because I'm a big multitasker and they are a great way to learn new things while doing something else. They're awesome for catching up on tech news (e.g. the 'This week in' podcasts; Buzz out loud; there's even a Hacker News podcast), or learn new things (NPR's Fresh Air and KERA's Think Podcast are some of my favorites for great discussions on rando…
Got it. If it is as big as you mention with no aggregation source for podcasts then kill it!
I am working on Airball - http://airball.in - an elegant dribbble viewer built with Backbone.js. I am also trying to make a Titanium desktop app out of it.
Looks great. Clean and easy to use. Whats the reason for creating? Side project? Something else?
The main reason for building Airball was to teach myself backbone.js.