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GeekNights 091102 - Internet Ruins

AprecheApreche
edited November 2009 in GeekNights
Tonight on GeekNights we talk about the ruins of the Internet. In the news, open web fonts have a fighting chance, and a blogger got his town council to resign. a

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  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    edited November 2009
    Rym's Thing: Fake Trick or Treater Prank
    Scott's Thing: Laughing Yoga
    [Page for this episode returns a 500 error.]

    I'm looking forward to the Geeknights Tribes 2 server at Rym's house.

    Update: I got the links out of the RSS feed.
    Post edited by Omnutia on
  • BlahshawBlahshaw
    Any chance we can get a link to Rym's thing of the day? (The Halloween prank.)
  • ElJoe0ElJoe0
    Forget the thing of the day, I want to see these Angel Fire sites!
  • AlanAlan
    edited November 2009
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jv9gQ6Fr0w

    Fake trick or treat.
    Post edited by Alan on
  • BlahshawBlahshaw
    Any chance we can get a link to Rym's thing of the day? (The Halloween prank.)
    Ah, I see the link has been fixed.
  • ThirdWorldManThirdWorldMan
    edited November 2009
    Going to plug my favorite now defunct podcast: NJ Cast
    If only their Creative Commons wasn't non-derivative!

    Oh and I for one would love some Joel White or sexy voice Dave Riley on the GeekNights. ^__^
    Post edited by ThirdWorldMan on
  • WindUpBirdWindUpBird
    edited November 2009
    Oh and I for one would love some Joel White or sexy voice Dave Riley on the GeekNights. ^__^
    I too would enjoy another Fast Karate for the GeekNights.
    Post edited by WindUpBird on
  • TyashkiTyashki
    I always wondered why it was still season 3. ^^;
  • Luke BurrageLuke Burrage
    I once paid about 150 euros for a font. Thankfully it was someone else's money. I then used the font for one of my own websites: http://www.lukeandpola.com/indexde.html And you're right, I had to render the text as images. But finding fonts that are widely available AND work well with German characters and umlauts is a real pain.

    There was something else I wanted to mention about the Internet Ruins bit of the podcast, but I can't remember what it was now. I have a backup of my old websites at various stages, all on my laptop right now. That's the good thing about ever-larger hard drives; you can keep all your self-created media with you at all times. Back in 2005 I put the 2003 archive up on my current hosting. 2003 was when I made an animation that went viral, and killed my (then) hosting plan, and it never recovered (I got locked out of stuff). Funnily enough, I read various bits of it every few few months, and I'm usually quite entertained.
  • InvaderRENInvaderREN
    Hi All

    Just going to jump in here, been listening for a couple of years.

    This episode really got me thinking and I was anticipating a vision of the future, especially when Scott mentioned pyramids/castles. What kind of wasteland is the net going to be in 10 years? How about 30? 50?

    When we have basically unlimited bandwidth, and the net becomes whatever it is going to become, what of the current generation of sites? Assuming Facebook runs it's course and cycles out for its replacement, will there be millions of old Facebook pages floating around? In exactly 100 years, will there be millions of DEAD PEOPLES Facebook pages floating around?
    Will my (eventual) grand kids post an annual condolence on ghostly wall, instead of visiting my grave?

    I know Skype must be a pain, but I think you could have taken this episode a lot further.

    But it was still good =)
  • SailSail
    Assuming Facebook runs it's course and cycles out for its replacement, will there be millions of old Facebook pages floating around? In exactly 100 years, will there be millions of DEAD PEOPLES Facebook pages floating around?
    Will my (eventual) grand kids post an annual condolence on ghostly wall, instead of visiting my grave?
    That would be AWESOME.
  • scotbuffscotbuff
    edited November 2009
    If you are still searching for a way to get better sound for your recordings while using Skype the solution is for Scott to record his end of the conversation and Rym record his end of the conversation. At the beginning of the podcast you both make a sync point for Rym to use to mix the podcast. We have always done our podcast this way, exporting the recording to FLAC and then one of us mixes the recordings. This method requires Scott to copy the file to Rym's location or putting his recording somewhere where Rym could retrieve it.

    I tried sending this in by way of your contact form, your contact form does not work.
    Post edited by scotbuff on
  • AprecheApreche
    If you are still searching for a way to get better sound for your recordings while using Skype the solution is for Scott to record his end of the conversation and Rym record his end of the conversation. At the beginning of the podcast you both make a sync point for Rym to use to mix the podcast. We have always done our podcast this way, exporting the recording to FLAC and then one of us mixes the recordings. This method requires Scott to copy the file to Rym's location or putting his recording somewhere where Rym could retrieve it.

    I tried sending this in by way of your contact form, your contact form does not work.
    We know this already.
  • ChurbaChurba
    edited November 2009
    We know this already.
    In fact, they mentioned it in the first episode that they were on Skype after the big move.
    Post edited by Churba on
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