http://www.blogarithms.com Doug Kaye's Weblog Tue, 13 May 2008 19:19:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The idea of LifeCasting (informal very-long format live video) probably started with Justin.tv and was then built on by Chris Pirillo. I found it particularly fascinating during last year's iPhone launch, covered by Robert Scoble and others, but generally just a curious phenomenon. For a few years now, a number ... http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2008/05/13/lifecasting-goes-pro/ We've just turned on a new page layout for IT Conversations. Lots of Ajax and widgets have helped us reduce the size of the pages and improve performance and at the same time increase the functionality. You may need to snoop around to find your favorite features, but they're all ... http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2008/05/08/new-look-for-it-conversations/ Last week was the annual meeting of the Board of Directors of The Conversations Network at which we elected two new board members, Jon Udell and Zephyr Teachout. Along with our re-elected directors, Jake Shapiro and David Weinberger, I think you'll agree it's an extraordinary team. And then there's our ... http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2008/05/03/our-new-board-members/ I was chatting with David Marks of Loomia about the version 4 rewrite of The Conversations Network's web sites, and he asked whether I'd blogged about it. Haven't yet, so here's part of it... The new sites will be extremely dynamic with nearly everything loaded at runtime via Ajax widgets, some ... http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2008/05/01/my-new-widget-architecture/ I was saddened to return home today after an east-coast trip to be greeted with the news that Tom LeVine had died from a brain tumor diagnosed only two months ago. Tom was the CEO of Pop!Tech, a marvelous annual event held in Maine every year. IT Conversations streamed live ... http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2008/05/01/remembering-tom-levine/ I'm thinking about switching from just using a text editor to an IDE, but I need some help. I went to the Zend web site and became thoroughly confused. So many versions. With and without Eclipse. (I've never used Eclipse, either.) Help me out here. What package(s) do I want and ... http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2008/03/29/an-ide-for-php-zend-eclipse/ Due to the split with GigaVox Media, we were forced to move the primary feed for IT Conversations. It appears that only two-thirds of the RSS clients are responding to the redirect. So if you haven't received any IT Conversations programs for the past week, check your podcatcher. The new ... http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2008/03/29/itcrssmoved/ There's nothing unusual about my experiences, but I wonder if people in other industries realize how fundamentally the Internet has changed how software is developed. In my case, it's software for and on the Internet itself, so the development environment is also the distribution platform. (That wasn't always the case. ... http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2008/03/27/software-development-in-the-21st-century/ We get many requests for videos of conference sessions in addition to MP3 files. Virtually every time we ask why, it's because people want to see the slides. Most of the online conference videos you see are some combination of a presenter standing at a podium and blurry shots of ... http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2008/03/27/slideshows/ We're in the process of re-evaluating our use of explicit ratings on The Conversations Network, so I just did an analysis of our rating activity. Interesting. Total ratings to date: 65, 881 Mean per episode: 38.5 Median: 17 Most-rated episode: 1,041 ratings Episodes rated per day: 60 Ratings made per day: 78 Distribution Episodes with only 1 rating: ... http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2008/03/26/the-value-of-ratings/