Daryl’s Flock Blog

While writing my little announcement about the Flock meetup in Knoxville, I decided to catch up a bit on Perry’s blog, and I discovered that he had recently posted about creating a video demonstrating the favorites manager. It’s pretty nifty. I do remember seeing one other screencast of Flock in action a while back (thanks, AdminID), but otherwise, I can’t think of any rich media out there about Flock, besides a few podcasts, one of which was produced by the third Knoxville meetup participant, Mike Neel. Has anybody else encountered other community-produced rich media out there about Flock? We should gather up any links and document them on the wiki, if the little collection linked here doesn’t represent the total picture.

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The biggest problem with my inaugural podcast, to my mind, is that it was mostly just me talking. To help remedy that for future editions, I’d like to experiment with having sort of a community talkback edition or segment from time to time. Here’s the idea: I ask a question or try to provoke some thoughts; you respond in some audio format, and I incorporate relevant, reasonably well-done responses into a podcast that features the community much more heavily than it does me. This may not work out, but let’s give it a shot. The first question I’ll ask is why you think it makes better sense for Flock to be a browser rather than a set of extensions (if in fact you think that’s the case; if not, explain why not). If you’d like to participate, send to daryl at flock.com an email with the following parts:

• Subject: “podcast opinion 1″
• Your name as you’d like to have it read if I include your response (with pronunciation hints if they’re likely to be needed)
• Your web site if you’d like me to announce it with your answer
• Link to an mp3 of your response (I’d prefer this to your attaching the mp3 if you can manage it)

I propose not less than about 30 seconds and not more than maybe 2 minutes for responses. Your response becomes property of Flock, you’re not entitled to any compensation for it, and all that other legal mumbo jumbo. Here’s hoping five or six people will respond. If not, I guess this is a wash. I look forward to hearing what our community can come up with.

With some helpful tips from community member danakin, I’ve finally produced the first of a series of podcasts I’ve been thinking for months about putting out there. You can tell I’m not a professional at this stuff, as there are lots of umms and uhhhs in there, and the editing’s not terribly smooth, but I’m new at this, and things can really only get better from here. The first edition’s mostly just me talking about things our flockstar crew already knows about, but in the future, you should look to hear from some of the Flock development crew and from some of the flockstars. Hopefully I’ll manage to incorporate some other interesting content as well. If there’s anything in particular you’d find interesting, drop a comment here and I’ll see if it’s doable.

I have once again to thank Tara Hunt for an interview I’ve sampled in the podcast that I paraphrased here a few weeks ago. I also thank Enric at Determining Media for kindly allowing me to lift that excerpt. If you like the music I selected, be sure to check out CHHN over at opsound.