Jared and I are fans of the The GangNewsGang GillmorGang and luckily he’s been listening to it more than I have because he mentioned I was called out on last Wednesday’s show (NewsGang Live 04.09.08). I still don’t know what I said to cause the “Dan Cameron wrote something today that I just noticed today…who’s Dan Cameron anyway..I’ve seen his name but I don’t know who he is…” and the discussion leading into this was “active disdain” about the show; even Steve said “he doesn’t remember”; all that I can think about is a comment, over a year ago, that I left on the old Gillmor Gang site when it was part of Podshow complaining about one of them snoring (real snoring) during the best part of the show.
It should be known that I like the show, it’s the only podcast I listen to regularly, even though there’s just too much content now-a-days. It’s also getting better since the G’ Shared “incident” hasn’t been a main topic of discussion lately, even though it still gets thrown in there like twitter.
Maybe someday I’ll call into the NewsGang, without being a lurker. It would be fun to argue a little, throw in some corrections and observations. But I may not be able to contribute unless it’s about Apple or eCommerce.
Even though I agree with Dougal’s point that security outweighs themes or plugins you don’t have to upgrade to 2.5, just upgrade to 2.2.3. And just because wordpress.org doesn’t link to the 2.2.3 version doesn’t mean it’s absolutly necesary for you to risk your peice of mind. Just check the revision log for all the changes from 2.2.3 branch and update the files manually. You can get the files individually or the entire released zipped from the wordpress trac.
I was just about to update the flickr video post on how easy it was to embed the video but instead I have to say I’m really enjoying the new release of Wordpress.
I haven’t used it enough to write a full post, which I won’t, but everything I’ve tried to do is either much easier than before or greatly improved. Like embeding that flash video, it was as simple as: clicking html, pasting, clicking visual again in the editor, finishing the post and publishing. Adding video before this was more painful than listening to Steve Gillmor talk about the “Reader Exploit” or how “wonderful Twitter” is.
I do see WP 2.5 as one of their flagship releases, even if I’m starting to be a little pessimistic about how open-source it may or may not be.
Ever since we started using flickr, in 2005, I had been anticipating this day to come…3 years later flickr added video support. It’s clearly not a youtube competitor and I’m glad its not, they can keep their social/viral/hilarious video.
Even though YouTube has more to offer, only because it’s pioneering and trying to keep ahead in that space, flickr will host most of our video.
flickr is our online “scrap book”/photo-album and since our events, the iPhoto term, include video its only natural to keep them all in one place.
Testing out the feature I found nothing special. It’s the same as uploading images, only I can’t upload the video through the flickr uploader yet.
There are some limitations:
90 seconds
150MB
But like I mentioned this is for my still-camera video in relation to events, which almost always fill that criteria.
I’ve embeded our first uploaded video to this post [crossing fingers] with praise to flickr for finally getting off their ass and doing something great for the community/users of flickr and don’t worry youtube I’ll use you as much as I do now and I’m sure everyone else will do the same.
[I was about to pownce this quick note but I feel my blog needs me]
I turned off rePownce for facebook today because of complaints about cross-posting.
I agree with the argument that cross-posting is “lame” because with abundance of socialstream services it’s not necessary anymore.
I’m still reluctant however to give up on twitterfeed because I know there are people that follow me on that network only. And even though I don’t contribute directly to twitter, especially the few followers, I still feel the need to update them with my micro-posts.
Someday I’ll turn it off, probably the day I see the need to use twitter.
But the point is if you subscribe to my current lifestream at feedfriend, http://friendfeed.com/dancameron, you won’t have to worry about trying to keep up with my obsession to change services.
It’s got every feed that’s on my “social graph” and if I plan to stop using a service or start using another you wont have to worry about tracking down RSS feeds or pruning out old ones.
It’s Friday night and instead of playing video games or watching Battlestar Gallactica or Upgrading my repo to wordpress 2.5 I worked on a new design for my site. It’s pretty basic and not entirely what I had envisioned but since the takimata sandbox theme shared my motive I used it for my ground work and then spent an hour or two messing around in CSSedit. I think I’ll be able to work with this theme for a while, I still want to do a few more things like:
Make my lifestream more promonant
Fix the page styling
Add some missing plugins (i.e. gravatars)
Add some features found in my last theme
Then again…I probably wont get around to do any of those.
I'm a Lead Web Developer and Web Manager in Ventura CA, I contribute to the Wordpress community through themes and plugins. Here at Scattered I tend to write about technology with a tendency to post more about Apple, Wordpress or Linux. I micro-blog at Pownce and Twitter. Meta: I'm married to Sara and our daughter is Avery; when I'm free I enjoy golf and softball; the rest of my personal life on the web is locked behind facebook or sent to my "real" friends at pownce.
I'm a Lead Web Developer and Web Manager in Ventura CA, I contribute to the Wordpress community through 
