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The Squadcast 05 - Security Starts at Home

December 10th, 2007 · No Comments




Just released episode 5 of The Squadcast. We’ve come a really long way in 5 weeks, it’s so amazing to watch e5 next to e1. I’ve learned so much about video production producing and directing the Squadcast, and I’ve still got so much to learn.

Huge thanks to everyone who helped out on this show. Ben Feinstein, Elizabeth Clarke, Christina Warren, Victor Agreda, Brad Linder and the whole Download Squad team.

We’re rockin it on planning future video goodness, so stay tuned.

Squadcast #4 - How to be social

December 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

Given this weeks theme, social networking, I went a little wacko with clips from the Prelinger collection of epehemeral films. Check out a pre-Bewitched Darren as “The Shy Guy”.

Christina and I talk to Jason Evangelho, and take a look at the Download Squad team’s top five and bottom five Facebook applications.

Squadcast #3

November 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

We just released Squadcast #3. This one took forever to edit, and I really hope it shows. Enjoy.

Blogging Heroes

November 9th, 2007 · No Comments

Although I feel Blogging Heroes tagline is total hyperbole, “Interviews with 30 of the world’s top bloggers”, it’s prudent to point out that it’ll be available on December 10th. How I ended up on that list, I have no idea.

I’m definitely looking forward to reading the interviews with Gina Trapani, Mark Fraudenfelder, Chris Anderson and Mary Jo Foley.

Oh, and having seen the draft of my interview already, I’m going to go ahead and apologize to Ray Beckerman. I mentioned you correctly, but they misspelled your name. Hey, at least they got your link correct.

The book’s publisher, Wiley, has been incredibly cool in allowing each blogger featured to freely share a pdf of their chapter. Here’s mine.

Download Squad’s Squadcast Episode #1

November 7th, 2007 · No Comments

The first of many Squadcasts to come from the fine folks at Download Squad. Big thanks to Christina Warren for co-hosting with me, and to Brad Linder for agreeing to do the speakerphone interview at the last minute. Super big thanks go to Victor Agreda for sticking by this project in the darkest days, when it seemed like we’d never, ever get an episode out the door.

Download Squad getting a facelift

October 17th, 2007 · No Comments

It’s finally coming! Download Squad is getting a facelift and the first fledgling signs are starting to go live.

Big thanks to all the hardworking mad geniuses working behind the scenes at Weblogs, Inc who’re making this happen.

Update: Scratch that. We’re not getting a full redesign just yet, only some feature updates which are still greatly appreciated.

Keeping your inbox squeeky clean

November 16th, 2006 · No Comments

email.jpgI wrote a feature for Download Squad on keeping your Gmail nice and tidy, while recovering a little bit of your own time as well.

It made Digg, and the accompanying comments show that, quite clearly, the world is not ready for my no-holds-barred brand of productivity. And I quote, “Yeah, just delete the s**t. Do we need to digg rules for keeping an inbox tidy? Its feeling like estrogen in here.”

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