Year: 2008

Aaron Brazell, the mastermind behind Technosailor, is, as they say, Good People. I pinged him the other night after banging my head against a wall trying to get my WordPress blog exported properly. The issue was my reliance on Textile when drafting posts (this started in Movable Type, and I continued doing it once I…

http://youtube.com/v/yX8yrOAjfKM We may as well close YouTube – we have found the Best. Video. Ever.

Wow, is this painful. Starting with my transition to Movable Type, I started using Textile, a Movable Type plugin that let you use text-based shortcuts for doing HTML markup. In the days before a rich text editor, this was a great time-saver. A couple years later I switched to WordPress, but found a WordPress plugin…

Seven years after my entree to blogging (courtesy of a pre-Google Blogger), I’m coming back to where it all began. Stay tuned – migration of the blog from here (WordPress) to here (Blogger) will wrap up by early next week.

http://www.hulu.com/embed/5-RW1WECcZGtmO5LlmH8jg/1035/1095 That is all.

Sonos pushed out version 2.7 of its controller software last night, and I had a few minutes to play around with it before heading into work this morning. It’s awe-inspiringly good. What is Sonos? I wrote about my purchase of the Sonos last summer, here’s my summary: For those that don’t know what it is,…

Been thinking about this speech a lot in the last couple days. Jeff Bridges from The Contender: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKZdOc0nkwU&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&w=425&h=344] Yes, I’m a sap. And a hopeless optimist. But I’d like to think that as a country we can avoid falling into the abyss of demonization and hate, and instead find greatness in our leaders.

You may recall that last month I gave a speech in Chicago at the 2008 ELCA Communicators Conference. This particular conference is important to me, for a couple reasons. First off, my 2006 speech to this group was the most impactful speech I’ve ever given. It was wild to see so many blogs pop up,…

Very excited to announce a project that I’ve been working on for the past several months (in addition to a few others…) – the Content Central blog and the updated Submit Your Content page. Both are intended to bring a bit more transparency to how we distribute content for content partners at Google, and help…