Heading to SXSW - New “Skiff at SXSW” blog!
March 8th, 2007
I’m gearing up for my trip to South By Southwest, and I’ve set up a new blog for the occasion! I’m going to be clip-to-blogging everything interesting I see around SXSW and Barcamp Austin, so I don’t want to flood my loyal readers here. If you’d like to follow along, you can check out the “Skiff at SXSW” blog or subscribe to the feed.
By the way, if you’re going to SXSW and you’re not heading to Barcamp Austin, you’ve seriously got to come check it out. Sure, you’ll have to skip a few talks at SXSW to attend, but there’s going to be some seriously smart and passionate people sharing ideas at Barcamp. You’ll be very glad you came.
Sometimes, people are just awesome
January 14th, 2007
Is it just me, or is there an abnormally large number of great folks in the new web communities that have sprung up in the past few years? Maybe it’s the fact that most of the people I’m working with lately are into the idea of creating or participating in something great, rather than making a boatload of money, but I’ve met more than my fair share of kick-ass people this year.
That said, even among these great people, it’s not often you meet someone who is genuinely cool and also willing to give you their time and enthusiasm with no thoughts of what they’ll get in return.
I’ve been developing a Wordpress widget for Clipmarks that allows you to add clips to the side of your blog. It’s only my second wordpress plugin, so I figured it would be a bit rough around the edges and would benefit from some true beta testing. We invited the incredibly awesome Torley to be our first beta tester Thursday night, and not only did he test it out and give us great feedback, but he’s also blogged about the tool and has done the legwork of installing an updated version of the beta just a day later!
I’ve spent the past year getting involved in communities and meeting amazing people, but it still always astounds me when people are this cool. It makes me really excited for the things that we’re capable of building if we continue to work together!
Long blog-post short: Thanks Torley!
PS - I’d love to test this widget out on a bunch of blogs before we go live with it, and could really use the help, if you’ve got a wordpress blog. Just drop me a comment on this post and I’ll get in touch!
The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the Computer World
July 27th, 2006
One of the listeners of Sara’s and my music podcast, The Alternative Music Show, dropped me a very nice email the other day and asked if I wouldn’t mind taking a look at his new blog featuring reviews of comptuer programs.
I checked it out, and his first two reviews are extremely well written and he’s highlighted two of my favorite programs of all time, Trillian and Winamp.
Take a look at his blog and if you like what you see, subscribe to his feed to see what programs he picks for review. I’m looking forward to see what he picks out!
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