Slug: microformats-wiki-redesign Date: 2008-11-17 Title: Microformats Wiki redesign layout: post

Slug: yes-we-can Date: 2008-11-05 Title: Yes We Can layout: post

Slug: hey-steve-make-with-the-posting Date: 2008-10-22 Title: Hey Steve, make with the posting! layout: post Ok, so posting has been, as they say in the industry, “light” lately. Meanwhile, work has been “crazy”, and by “crazy” I mean “crazy good”. :-) At my last position, I rarely got to work on anything that I could point people to and say “I made that!”. With Six Apart, I’m getting to do some great work for sites that I can actually point you to! In the last few weeks, Six Apart Services helped Talking Points Memo, the political blog and community run by Polk-award winning journalist Josh Marshal, re-launch the site on Movable Type 4.2. Even more importantly, we helped TPM move from a custom set of community tools to the community platform built into Movable Type. Andrew Golis, one of TPMs editors, explains it in this episode of TPMtv that he posted about on his new personal blog on the site. I’m particularly proud of the new Community Dashboard, an action stream that shows all the activity (posts, comments, recommendations, and who-followed-who) for all the users you are following on the site. It was my largest contribution to the site, and it really ties the site together brings a whole new level of interactivity to the site and a much better sense of what’s happening in your personal circle within the larger community. The Dashboard is built as a plugin that builds, in turn, on Mark Paschal’s Action Streams plugin for Movable Type. This migration, upgrade, and enhancement of the TPM site was a big project for us, and while every large migration has its issues I’m really proud of what we accomplished. Go Team!

Slug: leaving-new-york Date: 2008-10-08 Title: Leaving New York layout: post

Slug: redmonk-circa-2001 Date: 2008-10-01 Title: Redmonk, circa 2001 layout: post

Slug: view-from-the-nu-hotel-brooklyn Date: 2008-09-24 Title: View from the Nu Hotel, Brooklyn layout: post

Slug: 6a-nyc-dinner Date: 2008-09-24 Title: 6A NYC Dinner layout: post

Slug: visiting-the-mothership Date: 2008-09-23 Title: Visiting The Mothership layout: post

Slug: once-2008 Date: 2008-09-22 Title: Once (2008) layout: post Jodi and I got Once from NetFlix this last week. I didn’t know what to expect, I only knew that it was about an Irish musician, and that it had gotten some awards. Once starts out slow, with a hand-held documentary (read, “cheap”) feel that puts the viewer in intimate proximity to the two protagonists, credited as “guy” and “girl”. Indeed, names are never used in the movie, and rather than distance the audience (ok, Jodi and me) from the film it kept us curious. The whole film is an exploration of a friendship and the music that draws two different individuals together. The movie progresses linearly, but the driver is not as much a plot as a series of musical vignettes that simultaneously speak to the characters relationship to each other as well as to the relationships that define each of them. Jodi and I were marveling at this simple film that keeps pulling the viewer in close, sharing moments both quiet and full of passion. We loved it, and I bought the Once soundtrack the next day. It’s as good as I expected, featuring all the songs from the movie pretty much as they appeared in the film (including “Broken-hearted hoover-fixing sucker guy”!) Check it out - if you can get past the full-bodied profanity, the film is refreshingly lacking in Hollywood sensuality and cliche - I think you’ll love it.

Slug: infobulk-mailorg Date: 2008-09-20 Title: info@bulk-mail.org layout: post