Tons of Notes, BlogOrlando Aftermath 3 October 1, 2008
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Orlando, Coworking, Trends, floridacreatives, photos, OrlandoScene, BarCamp, BlogOrlando, Twitter, Social Media Events, Tampa, Programming, Doterati , add a comment
Folks, I’ve got things to tell you, and things I want your input on. First of all, huge thanks to Tim Welch for his excellent BlogOrlando3 “Best of” post.
Next, I want you to stop reading this post. STOP! Go to the Florida Creatives forum and contribute to this discussion, or start a new discussion about something for which you are passionate.
If you’re still reading, I’ll remind you we have TWO BarCamps coming up. Count them.
BarCamp Tampa Bay is going down in less than two weeks. If you were at the Orlando BarCamp in April, this will seem familiar to you - Tech Day, Media Day. Held at USF’s Business school, Saturday and Sunday, October 11th and 12th. I believe there is a party-bus or a caravan of some kind headed down that way. Check the Twittersphere (92 followers, natch!) or Doterati? for more details.
BarCampChaos held on Monday October 13th, the first night of CreateChaos08 at the Mariott down by Disney World. It’s 10 conferences in one, and one unconference, and bunches of parties, like a certain Internet Marketing and Tech association I know of, and an Advertising and Design Alliance I know of, and a Create Awards, and a Job Fair, and an Expo, and lots more, including $200 off registration if you register for BarCampChaos.
The Florida Creatives website now has 4 feeds for you to pay attention to:
- Podcast Feed (original)
- Site-Wide Feed (includes groups, events, blogs, forums)
- Event Feed (mashed up from all over town)
- Comments Feed (in case you don’t prefer emails)
Those of you already subscribed in iTunes will continue to receive podcasts.
Those of you who used feedburner email subscription should keep getting your emails (of the site-wide feed).
The events feed is pulled from the Florida Creatives group on Upcoming.Y!, the Calendar feeds of The Daily City blog, Doterati and the newly-formed Advertising and Design Alliance (I don’t even know where to link for it yet).
The old Florida Creatives Google Groups is going away. I have already closed out new people from joining. With a forum, email subscriptions for feeds and all the other stuff, it should be easy to stay informed.
If you haven’t checked out the Florida Drupal Group yet, please do. Classes are third Saturdays at 1PM in Maitland, and completely worth it. We are talking about putting together a DrupalCamp early next year, so get involved now.
Did you realize that Café Scientifique was today? I sure didn’t, but I’ve been an extremely busy man of late. Chad is organizing some awesome talks down at Stardust, these are not to be missed.
The 2nd Annual ELLA Music Fest is this weekend. Crazy that a year has gone by already. Orlando Scene TV has some vids from last year if you want to know what you’re missing out on.
Video Uploads to Flickr April 9, 2008
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Podcasts, Orlando, Events, Video, Film, Reviews, Trends, MySpace, photos, Facebook, BarCamp, Storytelling, Viddler, Web Services, Flickr , add a comment
My First Video on Flickr fit the new requirements perfectly: less than 90 seconds, and less than 150MB. That’s fantastic, and the streaming in good, embed codes, tagging, fits right into my flickr photo/video stream, awesome.
The videos on Flickr are going to make YouTube obsolete, or rather, the MySpace to Flickr’s metaphorical Facebook. The content in each place is different. I don’t go to MySpace or YouTube expecting quality, art, or intellectual content of the least kind. However, I know some real life people on Facebook, and some really serious photographers on Flickr.
By creating a constraint like this, the “90-second short film” will gain a place on the internet. I wouldn’t doubt if the next set of consumer-level cameras have an option to limit video clips to 90 seconds to allow for easy Flickr uploading.
…and it is SO easy. The same exact experience as working with a photo - I haven’t tried geotagging, but I bet it works. Now if they can get Viddler-style deep tagging working just like Notes on photos, I’ll be a very happy man.
David is a total goofball, now you can see it at 30FPS. Thanks Flickr!
BarCampOrlando IZEA Geekout Party April 7, 2008
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Podcasts, Orlando, Links, Events, Video, Beer, floridacreatives, Entrepreneurship, photos, Contributors, OrlandoScene, BarCamp, Social Media Events , 1 comment so far
This was how I spend 90% of the time at the IZEA GeekOut Party - talking to Tara Lamberson and Dan Kinchen about a Central Florida Tech Association, or something like it.
Thanks to Ted Murphy for throwing the party - we hope to see you on the 21st for Florida Creatives. Also thanks to Adam Teece for hosting the podcasts.
Also appearing in this video: Ted Murphy, Gregg Pollack and a widdle baby
See more videos by Adam at the GeekOut
Coworking Tuesdays Photoset March 19, 2008
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Orlando, Links, Events, Coworking, Trends, floridacreatives, photos , add a commentI went on my lunch break today, and those 30 minutes were actually quite fantastic.
Not only Coworking Tuesdays at Stardust, but also Cup-O-Code, the Orlando Coworking article from the Sentinel (about), and Alex on Cow-orking at BarCamp Orlando 2007. End very short slideshow.
There is a reason the slideshow is so short. Outside of Likemind (which has tons of coworking connotations in this town), there haven’t really been many documented coworking sessions here. That’s what Coworking Tuesdays are all about - adding folks to the mailing list, taking pictures, recording podcasts, making videos, setting up a web site and keeping the wiki up-to-date… and more.
There’s lots of almost-happening coworking stuff in downtown Orlando, check out the mailing list for updates about that. This is going to happen before Memorial Day at the current rate, and I’m likely jinxing it by saying anything, but we want interested parties!
Would you pay for some space at a table if someone had their name(s) on the lease and other folks were paying for some desk space too?
Richard Dawkins - oh snap! January 24, 2008
Posted by Ryan in : Video, photos , 1 comment so farRichard Dawkins writes books about evolution and gods and stuff. This particular day, Mr. Dawkins was giving a talk at a women’s college in America. Watch the events unfold…
Did she just get told or what? I have prepared a handy diagram to help us decide:
Oh, snap!
P.S. I know a poem about Mr. Dawkins by Richard Tyrone Jones - it’s the second half of “The Promise / Richard Dawkins”. Go have a listen.
Florida Creatives Meetup 1/5/08 January 7, 2008
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Here I am sitting with Stephen McKenny Steck from WMFE, Orlando’s PBS/NPR affiliate.
Photo by Jim Hathaway
Check out more photos in the Florida Creatives Photo Pool.
Photos from London November 18, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Site News, Travel, London, photos, flash , 2 comments
It was awesome. I’m going back at least twice next year. I have lots to catch up on, but it doesn’t feel like a chore. I’m getting some nice solidification of some of my crazy ideas, and some perspective on some of my old ones. 2008 will be the best year ever, and I have Kait and London to thank for it in part.
I have a few more photos to edit/upload yet, but that will be reflected in this slieshow when they’re ready. This player also has pics from my last trip to London in April as well. Cheers!
I might have been on Channel 13 Yesterday September 29, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, News, Site News, Career, Blogging, Orlando, Events, TV, floridacreatives, photos, OrlandoScene, BlogOrlando , 1 comment so far
Channel 13 is the local news/weather station for Central Florida, and they were at BlogOrlando yesterday doing their thing. Jackie Shutack was a one-woman crew and she did all of her own camera work.
Jackie was interviewing Alex before the Orlando Scene segment when he came in and said “Ryan Price, come here, NOW!” Jackie had asked Alex if his blogs had any impact on local art and music, so Alex came to get me to answer the question.
I told my story about the challenge I presented before myself 2 years ago to make something out of my life in Orlando and where it’s gotten me so far. I’m sure I said othe stuff, but I could’t really say what unless I see the tape. After the interview Jackie made a funny comment about not needing to interview anyone else… I’d be very flattered if she was serious.
If you see it on News 13, try to TiVO it, I’d love to have a copy. If I ever get one, I’ll try to YouTube it or link to the stream on News 13.
edit: I was on TV, and apparently they showed a screenshot of OrlandoScene.TV and a short clip of the video about B&S Daily Market
BarCamp Orlando, Pats on the Back September 24, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Podcasts, Orlando, Events, Reviews, Trends, photos, Teaching, BarCamp , add a commentWhat an awesome event. Taste was absolutely packed. Lots of new thoughts and networking, lots of ideas for iteration #2. I heard the next ‘camp might only be 6 months away. With 4 podcast networks in Orlando, though, I’m gonna push for PodCamp. It doesn’t need to be anything huge, just a day for us to get together and swap ideas and techniques. Podcasting is so personal and self-taught. There aren’t any college courses on podcasting, so it would be great to unload some of what we know on the newbies.
Here are some pictures from yesterday. I have a few more to upload, but over 200 are already here. Check it out:
Flickr: The BarCamp Orlando Pool
Flock Blogging with Photos September 14, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Blogging, Podcasts, HowTo, Events, Video, Browsers, Fringe, MySpace, Liberatr, Web Sites, photos, interface, Teaching , 1 comment so farPart II, Electric Boogaloo!
This screencast demonstrates how to use Flickr photosharing and the Flock browser to add photos to a WordPress blog (or any blog or web page, really). Flock makes it dead-simple to upload, tag, and post photos. You can probably download the browser, sign up for Flickr and post photos to you blog faster than you can watch this video (about 7 minutes). Let me know what you think or if there are any tough spots.
Download the Screencast (in stunning 480×320 optimized for iPhone!)
There was a time when I was thinking of doing lots of screencasts and trying to build a whole site around it. Mike G of CFPHP and I were talking about something along these lines today - he’s the reason why you have an iPod-sized ‘cast. If you want to see anything else demonstrated, like if you want to teach your boss how to subscribe to RSS feeds, I would be happy to oblige. I am just sort of doing these as they come up until we come up with some cirricula.
