Month: July 2005
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kid pops a little air
05, 2005, air, BC, biking, blackcombwhistler, Canada, dirtjumps, downhillbiking, july, july2005, kid, mountainbiking, moutainbikingweekend, photo, photo by @thelastminute, Photo by Duncan Rawlinson, thelastminute, whistler, whistler2005, whistlerbc
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bustin a little style
05, 2005, air, BC, biking, blackcombwhistler, Canada, dirtjumps, downhillbiking, july, july2005, jumping, kid, mountainbiking, moutainbikingweekend, photo, photo by @thelastminute, Photo by Duncan Rawlinson, thelastminute, whistler, whistler2005, whistlerbc
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random guy going big and fast
05, 2005, air, BC, biking, blackcombwhistler, blur, Canada, dirtjumps, downhillbiking, fast, july, july2005, jumping, mountainbiking, moutainbikingweekend, photo, photo by @thelastminute, Photo by Duncan Rawlinson, thelastminute, whistler, whistler2005, whistlerbc
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air
05, 2005, air, BC, biking, blackcombwhistler, Canada, dirtjumps, downhillbiking, july, july2005, jumping, kid, mountainbiking, moutainbikingweekend, photo, photo by @thelastminute, Photo by Duncan Rawlinson, thelastminute, whistler, whistler2005, whistlerbc
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sea to sky
05, 2005, BC, biking, blackcombwhistler, Canada, downhillbiking, july, july2005, mountainbiking, moutainbikingweekend, photo, photo by @thelastminute, Photo by Duncan Rawlinson, seatosky, seatoskyhighway, thelastminute, whistler, whistler2005, whistlerbc
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More on the Bombings in London
Citizen’s Media: Wikinews, Wikipedia, Nowpublic, Flickr group, Mefeedia,
Technorati: london, bombs, terrorism, London, Explosions. Blogs: Uk Blog Aggregator, BBC reporter’s blog, guardian NewsBlog London Bloggers, London photoblog, Metroblogging London.Broadcast: BBC Newsfront, BBC audio / video feed, BBC London Radio (Real Player), ITV News , Sky News (video), Channel 4, CNN.
Wires: Reuters, Press Association.
Newspapers: The Times, the Guardian, The Independent, This is London, The Telegraph, Daily Mail Group, The Sun, New York Times.
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Northern Lite – Treat Me Better
I like music videos that have simple and well executed ideas. [via]
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Walk LA with Me
So it’s late at night and I can’t sleep.
When I say late I’m talking like pushing 11:30 PM! My girlfriend makes me go to bed early so this is late by my standards.
I put my robe on, tip toe into the glass office and touch my mouse. The screen is sofa king bright. I refresh my video feeds and this wonderfully engaging/bizarre video flashes up.
The video consists of a woman walking around with a video camera pointed at herself. The camera is mounted on a stroller as she walks around filming herself and the total strangers who happen to be pushing the stroller with her. Her name is Lisa and she’s brilliant. I think to myself: what a fantastic idea. Create a moving tripod, walk around and interview strangers on the street. Not just any strangers either, these people are experts at being interesting. They live in HELL A, Los Angelesita! Good old Los Angeles… A city so bizarre that walking is considered a radical act of defiance, an act of self assertion and individual choice/empowerment.
What do the people of the streets in Los Angeles have to say? You’ll have to go check out her project page, her video blog and then plug her RSS feed into Fireant or iTunes. The more I dive into Lisa’s work the more she reminds me of my good friend Rick. More about the Rickster in a future episode.
By the way, welcome to the future. I know the future is already here but it’s noticeably more distributed this week. Lisa has a show and I’m going to watch it. I found it through a trusted filter and I enjoyed it. It’s free, syndicated and entirely unmediated. The cost of content production/distribution is rapidly approaching ZERO and I haven’t turned on my television in over a week. Nothing on TV will engage me like something Lisa can and will create. The quality of television has never been better in terms of production value but the content is like a race to the bottom. Who can come up with the worst show ever!? What is it now? Evander Holyfield dancing or something? Sofa king (#2) mindless.
Instead of sleeping I’ve had the pleasure of learning a little about Dérive, a little about the situationists, and about isolation. But most importantly I’ve learned that we can be trapped into safe and or dangerous thinking by our preconceived notions of spaces and places we haven’t even explored, both physically and psychologically. If you think its hack, amateur or stupid then you just don’t get it yet. Turn your computer off and go back to watching TV and don’t say another word about the "main stream media." Or pick up your weapon of choice and become the media!After watching all those videos, reading Lisa’s blog, her thinking, and drafting this little post it actually is getting late. I’ll be able to sleep easier now. Goodnight nerds.
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Watch Video in iTunes
This screencast from Rocketboom does a good job of explaining how to watch video blogs in iTunes. Direct link (~16 MB .mov) I did a really hack version of this about a week ago so I’m glad he did a better version. Looks like other people are getting into it as well…
Thanks for making a better screencast Andrew!
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Typepad Sucks
Me: NO IT DOESN’T
Reader: So why is that the title of your post jackass?
Me: I want people looking for "Typepad sucks" to find out that they don’t suck.
The other day I wrote that I hated Typepad due to some frustration with their new features. How spoiled am I? They give me double the storage and double the bandwidth and I’m complaining about how it’s hard to do something that the new features weren’t really designed for. I’ve already deleted that post but it must have caught someone’s eye.
The product manager at Typepad emailed me and was like: "I heard you are having issues, get at me dog." He didn’t say it like that but that’s how I thought of the email in my mind. Receiving an unsolicited email from a product manager about a complaint is unheard of. My brain could almost not comprehend it. Was this a company that actually cares what the lowly customer actually thinks? Can you imagine getting an email from a company’s product manager saying they heard you’d had a complaint and we’re curious if they could make it better? He even apologized about the unsolicited email. Good manners and everything… Wow.
So I emailed him back and suggested we chat over IM due to the nature of my complaint. He writes me back and we have a discussion on IM. All of a sudden there is a human on the other end of the line. This was not elevator music and some annoying woman’s voice saying they value your call. This was a person trying to make his product better by initiating contact with me.
I tell him my problem, he adds it to the list of things to do and says they’ll try to make it better. I tell him about other complaints and he tells me they’ve already fixed a bunch of them. I also tell him a thing or two he didn’t know and he plans on looking into them. I ask him about transparency and he suggests they’re trying to become more transparent with the stuff they’re working on.
You might think this isn’t feasible to do with bigger companies and you’re probably right. Then again Typepad isn’t exactly small either. How many times have you been asked for your input from the product manager of a company? Probably never…
I don’t want to tell you how the product manager found me because I don’t want his feed(s) to lose value by people trying to chime in. If you’re a tech nerd you’ll know how he found my post. The point is, they’re listening very well. THEY GET IT! They understand that blogs are not just about publishing, but rather they’re also about listening.
So.
Typepad doesn’t suck.
In fact it’s pretty sweet.
It’s great for lazy nerds like me who don’t want to write a whole bunch of code or design a site from scratch. I’d install Movable Type or WordPress on my own server but then why bother? Just use Typepad!
