#WhileTwitterWasDown, we put together a show about the death of Google Wave, two silly movie trailers, and Starman’s love for astronomy.
Read more on Geekistry Episode #41 – Free Beautiful Nature that Makes You Think…
After 105 episodes of World of Warcast, 36 episodes of Push My Follow, and 40 episodes of Geekistry, plus dozens of appearances on other shows, Mike talks about his favorite creative geek hobby: Podcasting.
Read more on Geekistry Episode #40 – The Podcast-cast…
Recently, Google started using a new Word-type document format for Google Docs. While this is good for most people, I find that it’s very constrained for certain types of documents that I work on – specifically, the show notes we use for the podcasts. I find that the Word-type format is very constrained whereas the old format is very open and free form.
Read more on How to use docs of a different type in Google Docs…
I’m an advocate of having a community for whatever it is that you’re working on, be it a blog, a podcast, a movie, what have you. I like to go to one place where everyone knows your (online) name and you can talk about whatever it is that you want to. Before this social media explosion, there was only one place to go to and that would be the site’s forums. The phpBB forum software still makes it very easy for people to set up forums for discussion. Even all these years later, I think forums are the best form of community discussion on the internet.
Read more on Are today’s social media tools fragmenting the conversation?…
After a few formalities (Facebook, the Lisa Simpson vs. Chelsea Clinton’s wedding Twitter trend, and a Warcast update) we talked about early internet information-sharing (Usenet, Gopher, The Well), blogging past and present, and the future of blogging: writing with purpose.
Read more on Geekistry Episode #39 – Blogcast…
