Blogging

Firefox 2 now has support for external RSS subscriptions instead of stupid Live Bookmarks. This means I can use my favorite reader Netvibes whenever I see the happy little orange icon in my address bar.

My good friend and colleague Mark Baratelli has luanched a video version of his audio podcast "How Do You Feel?" On top of that, he has taken the advice of many of his peers and decided to brand all of his podcasts as "Mark Baratelli Presents" (or so it would seem from this page). Now let's watch the Technorati links roll by...

Thank you for 37 Signals. I've been watching David Heinemeier Hansson's RailsConf 2006 Keynote Address about CRUD and REST, and some of these quotes are great for people who have been in the trenches.

If you're defining a new schema [in Rails], and you want to use composite primary keys, YOU'RE INSANE!

This past weekend was the first ever Orlando Film Festival... in case you missed it, and it's likely you did. The people who put this thing together are well-known and respected in the Florida film community. I got a chance to sit down with the programming team, Brian Quain and Michael King. You may recognize Brian as the inventor of a phenomenon only known as "The Game". Michael is known mostly in Orlando for his Writing-Producing-Acting role in his film The Way Back Home.

Everyone knows Google bought YouTube for billions in stock, but what sort of announcement has YouTube made to the public?

A Message from Chad and Steve

One feature of the site is the ability to leave video comments, and this guy seems to have something to say about the deal.

My first screencast ever, made with $20 shareware app iShowU and free sound capture application Soundflower. You can record directly to H.264 and a slough of other codecs, but I recorded to Apple Animation, which made a ~ 600MB file, which I compressed with Quicktime Pro down to 60MB.

Drew: "Mi blog es tu blog"

Vlad: "How do you think girls gone wild happened? You just point a camera at people and they talk"

Vlad: "Who's the most famous vlogger? Osama Bin Laden"

Josh: "Instead of writing a letter to the editor, write a letter to 40 friends, or just make a blog."

Sitting next to me are Alex and Gavin from Emurse. I have also met Chris Heuer (pic) from BrainJams and Social Media Club.

What exactly does this section do? I believe this is the “Summary” part of an RSS feed, but I could be wrong... this post was created in the Ecto blog editor.

I guess I can type in here too.This is a Link

<CMD+U> inserts a link.