Here is the first episode of my brand new podcast. Some of you may have heard my little stint on The Mike Schramm Shoe, which I considered a rousing success, but it was kind of like the first batch of cookies you make from scratch — they are good (they’re cookies, after all), but you realize that there are a few things you could have done with the recipe that you didn’t, and one of the trays was in for just the exact right amount of time and you could have done them all like that, and you realize that if you just added some walnuts, they’d be really excellent. So this is my second batch of cookies. I’m calling it “The Modern World.”
It’s currently seeking a home, actually — if you have (or even better, run) a site that often hosts podcasts about interesting technology and want me to do a podcast like this for you every week, let me know. Pay wouldn’t really be required — though it would be nice, I’d really just like to have a nice chunk of bandwidth to share these on, and a built-in RSS feed that I could easily post into iTunes. Email me and let me know if you have any ideas. Meanwhile, big thanks to my friend Josh Gray, who has always been there for me every time I’ve come up with wild Internet-based ideas and then realized I don’t know anything about how to make them a reality.
Show notes
-While @aplusk and CNN were fighting over who would get to a million Twitter followers first, the folks over at 4chan were aiming to make @basementdad famous instead.
-Yahoo is finally shutting down Geocities. Which makes most web developers cheer, but I think the beginning of the “anyone can do it” Internet deserves a more fond farewell.
-The video above is assembled by a guy named Michael Gregory, with help from his brothers (and sister-in-law). Big thank you also specifically to Andrew Rose Gregory, who helped me get the interview together.
-Finally, here is the must-watch Elevated demo, which is a procedurally-generated demo, all contained within just 4k. Thanks to Inigo “IQ” Quilez from RGBA for speaking with me.
Listen to the show: Click here to download the mp3. iTunes and RSS feeds are coming soon.
I’m going to say that you can expect a new show here every Sunday, though as I learned this week, coordinating interviews on a deadline is a tough thing to do (especially when people have no idea who you are). But I will do what I can to get these out weekly. And as I said in the show, they’ll be a little shorter (this one clocks in around 50 minutes or so), and hopefully will have less of me talking and more of interesting people speaking passionately about what they do. Should be fun, thanks for listening, and tell your friends!
Posted on Sunday, April 26th, 2009 at 9:59 pm. Filed under general.