Tuesday, February 12, 2008

It's all about podcasting, baby!

It's all about podcasting, baby!

As a born multi-tasker, I never have the time to settle to any single thing at one time. Podcasts were totally made for me. There is so much out there for web devs to play with, and it is important to be informed about what is hot - and what is not.
I have been an avid listener to podcasts from the BBC and the NYTimes for a while now: and I love the brief overview that the front page of the NY Times gives me, the
in depth international views from the BBC documentaries: and everything in between.
The subject mattters vary, and I get a wide perspective on many aspects of life.
The only trouble is that there are so many, and they all look so darn good :)

The absolutely grooviest discovery that I have made of late in the podcast world is young Mr. Dan Carlin. My kinda guy. An off-the-cuff and real world look at what's happening - and what happened way back in history.
Dan Carlin, we think you de man

Big in the web geek world - I am finding these intriguing as an overview, and a Brit view on these things:
boagworld, and of course
the .net magazine podcast
- this guy talks a little funny: but I can relate :)

There's also Talk Crunch and
The Web 2.0 Show - crazy stuff. Looking forward to diving into these very much. So much to hear...

Saturday, February 9, 2008

post-Web Directions North

Fabulous!



Talented line up: it is really incredible to me how many people are involved in working on mind-bending apps and tools on the web. It was fun to discuss where standards are headed with folks like Erik Saltwell, dev manager of Expression Web and other star-studded celebs.




Microformats, mashups and forward-looking site designs were all the rage - designing for standards-based browsers (bearing in mind that IE6 users will lose out on certain features), looking at different hardware for accessing the web/receiving feeds, incredible ways to build mashups, and on and on.




Links:


NGenworks


Flickr pics




More later....