blogging
GenAI & the Convertible Modalities of Consumption
The modality in which we create our content will likely not be the modality in which it gets consumed, in the coming future. So, what can creators do about it?!
ai
Are AI Chatbots Your Friend? Foe? Friday?
I think AI is (or will be) the new SEO. And I think the companies that move first will have a HUGE advantage...
news
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Traditional local news outlets are grappling with dwindling circulation and shifting audience preferences. But a new breed of digital platforms is emerging in their stead. Are we witnessing the dawn of a new era for local journalism?
LinkedInAnswers
Should collaborative knowledge be free by default?
The "You've been selected to answer..." feature on LinkedIn raises some thought-provoking questions about the nature of knowledge-sharing on closed platforms.
ai
Will AI take away audio-editing jobs?
AI-powered audio tools continue to emerge. They promised to streamline and automate various aspects of content creation BUT will these technologies ultimately take away jobs from audio editors? The answer might surprise you...
podcasting
A Podcast Just For ME!
What if you could have a podcast tailored just for you i.e., news about the topics you're passionate about delivered directly to your podcasting inbox?
video
Video isn't a threat to Podcasting...
There's a hot debate on about #video being a threat to #podcasts. IMHO, it's not. Because, when people say 'video podcasts' they aren't referring to Twitch, orTikTok, or Instagram, or even Spotify....
KCRW
So, I was a runner-up at the 9th Annual KCRW #RadioRace...
An independent audio piece I made for KCRW's 9th annual 24-hour Radio Race was chosen as runner-up among more than a hundred submissions from across the world.
dokku
YABR: Yet Another Blog Revival.
Three days ago, I decided to shake off the cobwebs that had collected around this piece of internet real-estate. However, I had massively under-estimated the size of technical debt that had accumulated alongside these cobwebs...
amazon
Installing dokku on an Amazon EC2 instance running 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
Most of my self-learning Django/python projects are deployed on Heroku. The free instances that Heroku provides provide a great way for newbie developers like me to set up prototypes of ideas without worrying about having to spend a bomb. Therefore, when dokku [https://github.com/progrium/dokku], a privately
V. For Vendetta.
> “Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony” > ‘Morpheus’ in “The Matrix” (1999) There was a time when the library was more than just a quiet place to bury your head in your books. There was a time when I used to peek out of the
django
Turning a negative into a positive.
When I was coding up views.py for HashPix [http://hashpix.herokuapp.com] I found that the Instagram API would sometimes barf at me with an APINotAllowedError exception. API not allowed? What?! How could that be? I was using the official python-instagram library [https://github.com/Instagram/python-instagram]! Why would