Tuesday, August 12, 2008
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Achtung Austinites! Hey. Just wanted to quickly alert everyone that I'm putting out the next list post in the series on Austin tomorrow afternoon, which means I'm adding all the suggestions to the OPML file today. This post is going to focus on Austin area social media and Web 2.0 companies with RSS feeds!
If you have something you feel like should be on the list and they aren't already listed in the OPML file presently, leave them in the comments here and I'll make sure they're included.
In the mean time, for those who missed it, here are the two Mashable Conversations episodes regarding Austin. Make sure you subscribe to that podcast feed so you don't miss any other episodes!
Labels: austin, mashable, opml
posted by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins at 1:23 PM[Blog] | [Home] | [Robots]
What's Wrong With Video? Sean and I had a great discussion about online video, and what really grinds our gears over it, on yesterday's Mashable Conversations.
Check it out. Discuss.
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posted by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins at 11:14 AM Friday, July 4, 2008[Blog] | [Home] | [Robots]
What I've Been Busy With You may have noticed the lack of updates here. Several reasons for this. Chief amongst them is the fact that I've been increasingly busy with Mashable's new video podcast series, which is getting better and better by the episode (we're already worlds better than episode number two, which is the first episodes that I produced end to end).
In other news, I've been busy on projects away from Mashable, as well. I'm building up a queue of shows to release on my personal video podcast feed. I've got a couple screencasts and a few interesting discussion episodes, as well.
(By the way, if you're interested in spotting me some cash to run some ads in that show, I've already got a pretty impressive number of folks subscribed to the show, especially considering there haven't been any episodes released to the feed yet.)
At any rate, I'm pretty proud of the stuff I've been doing for Mashable. Check out the latest July 4 episode of Mashable Conversations, where Sean P. Aune and I discuss Twitter and Identi.ca
Aside from the work related things, I woke up early on Thursday to appear on an episode of Falken's Maze, a show about AI and the Semantic Web. You don't want to miss it, it was a lot of fun to do (my episode should be up on Monday).
/rizzn
Labels: identi.ca, mashable, sean p. aune, twitter
posted by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins at 11:29 AM Saturday, June 14, 2008[Blog] | [Home] | [Robots]
Cleansing the Palette Hey Rizznites,
I really don't have a lot to say today, I'd just like to cleanse the palette of my blog a little bit, since the last several entries are largely about how I've been wronged, offended or otherwise been made to feel sad inside. I'm really not that big of a complainer, usually.
That's not true. I love to complain and make it sound like I've got this over-reaching point to make. I'm a blogger, I've got a big ego, and so I pontificate. I'm just tired of hearing myself rabble-rouse so darn much (a lot of editorials and opinion pieces at Mashable, lately), so I'm going to try to dial back the fervor over here a little bit.
Don't hold your breath.
I've really been enjoying putting a lot of time and effort into our video initiative at Mashable. There are still some aesthetic and technical glitches I'd like to work out:
- Not all of the slates I designed for the video made it into the hands of my editor in time for the first two episodes to be compiled.
- The compression quality needs tweaking. Things are looking a little pixelated at times for my taste.
- Conversion and transferring takes up too much time. We have to convert to FLV, MP4 and MP3. Blip does some of this, but transferring the files around is a bit of a pain.
Additionally, having Alana, Sean and Kristen helping out with the interview workload (as well as Art with the editing) makes my life worlds easier than when I was trying to do five of these a week by myself. I send my heartfelt thanks to the entire team on that, and can't wait to see what else comes of this.
In the mean time, check out these two videos we've already put out, and see if you can tell me we aren't going to have a great series ahead of us.
/rizzn
Labels: alana taylor, art lindsey, kristen nicole, mashable, sean p. aune, tom green
posted by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins at 2:53 AM Monday, May 26, 2008[Blog] | [Home] | [Robots]
Who Here Uses Kyte?
I've been tasked to look into Kyte over at Mashable in connection with one of our side projects. I used the product a long time ago, and I'm sure the service has changed radically since then. The last time I used it, it would crash my browser half the time, and the other half, it wouldn't really play anything resembling video.
None the less, it sounded like an interesting concept at the time. At this moment, though, I'm only nominally familiar with the product line over there. I'll likely be taking a close look at it during some point during the week, but I know a number of my readers have used it extensively (I'm looking at you Robert Scoble).
As I haven't gotten comments working using my FriendFeed engine yet, go ahead and head over to FriendFeed or Twitter or my email and respond with your thoughts on the topic.
Specifically: What is Kyte good for? What does it excel at? Where does it suck? Is it in the UStream space, the Utterz space, or some as of yet undefined space?
Thanks for all the response (how's that for optimism?).
Labels: friendfeed, kyte, mashable, robert scoble, twitter
posted by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins at 7:31 PM Tuesday, April 29, 2008[Blog] | [Home] | [Robots]
Jeff Bezos Likes My Show Heya.
I have a lot to say, but not a lot of energy with which to say it. I'm running on empty mostly because it's 5:14 am right now. Instead of talking about stuff, I'll let Jeff Bezos (founder and President of Amazon.com) do the talking about one of my podcasts for Mashable:
I hardly ever listen to broadcast radio in my car anymore. Instead, I subscribe to a whole bunch of podcasts, some technical, some fun, and others educational. Here are two episodes which should be of interest to anyone who reads this blog:The Mashable Podcast interviews Michael Crandell, CEO of RightScale. Michael talks about their product and how it helps organizations to use Amazon EC2 in a cost-effective fashion.
The IT Conversations Podcast captures Amazon CTO Werner Vogels as he talks about AWS at last years ETech conference.
You can listen to either or both of these on the respective sites or you can simply subscribe to their RSS feeds.
-- Jeff;
Thanks for subscribing, Jeff. I'm incredibly flattered. I've got more episodes on cloud computing coming up - some about AWS, and some not. You'll probably not link all of them via your blog, but I know you'll likely enjoy hearing some of the competition spill the beans on what they're doing.
/mark
Labels: amazon, jeff bezos, mashable, podcasts
posted by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins at 3:14 AM
