The New Big update … Summer ‘06
I don’t know about you, but for me this summer has flown by. Seems like I’ve been busier than all get-out, but I couldn’t tell you exactly what with. Between visiting friends, attending events, working, and just general life maintenance, it’s been a full and enjoyable few months.
I thought this might be a good time for little project update. Here’s what we’ve been up to at The New Big:
Seattle Mind Camp
Andru, Justin, and I met briefly last week to lay the groundwork for Seattle Mind Camp 3.0 in November. Watch the Mind Camp blog and mailing list for announcments about upcoming planning meetings. We don’t have a firm date yet, but we’re looking at the first two weekends in November.
Seattle Podcasting Network
SPN continues to roll along with monthly meetups. Blog posting has been light for the summer, but that doesn’t mean we’ve been entirely inactive. We kicked off the Passionate Podcasters Contest, offering a Rane MP 4 mixer to the most creative podcaster.
Travis and I spent some time at the Youth Media Institute last week, giving a group of budding audio and video producers a primer on podcasting. The Institute plans to make oral histories of residents in their White Center neighborhood available as podcasts, and we were thrilled to help give them a little insight into the philosophy and practice of podcasting.
The Sufferable Ass
I finally got around to updating the look of The Sufferable Ass, and I have to say I’m pretty happy with the result. Along with a new theme, I’ve taken a new approach to information management, by organizing content thematically on the front page, rather than chronologically. This gives the site more of a feel of a magazine or book, while still maintaining the ability for folks to subscribe to the freshest content through the RSS feed.
I’ve still got a few tweaks to do before everything’s running just right, but I really think that this kind of approach is the way to go for blogs that have a lot of good content but are infrequently updated. It allows a blog to feature the best or most relevant content to new readers. One thing I’d like to figure out now is how to allow subscribers to pick up my RSS feed from any point in my history… sort of like being able to watch a TV series from the beginning if you’ve missed a few episodes, rather than being forced to pick things up midway through the season.
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The Louverture Project continues to grow beyond my wildest expectations, thanks mostly to the work of “Doe.” I plan to move the wiki up a level in the directory structure, to replace the blog that has gone without updates for many months.
Read the Founders has suffered from a lack of attention. I’m going to try another push for Constitution Day in September.
We’ve been in talks with another agent to collaborate on Seattle Real Estate Talk.
Finally, I found a very interesting site called Dapper which may let me do exactly what I want with Warming Signs. Stay tuned…
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