05.19.08
FriendFeed and Me
God help me, I signed up for FriendFeed, just to see what it’s all about. Mostly, I’m upset that the username Shelly was already taken. It’s mine, I tell you, mine!
04.07.08
Moving On
I have decided to leave my position as editor-in-chief of Blogger & Podcaster Magazine, effective April 11.
I joined Blogger & Podcaster in January 2007 when we were preparing to launch the industry’s first digital/podcast/print hybrid publication. I was excited to be creating a magazine that would chronicle the podcasting world I knew so well after two+ years (more than three, now) publishing my own shows, along with the turbulent, more established blogosphere. Podcasting was and is a real passion for me. As with other loves in my life, the best way I knew to pursue that passion was to write about it.
We did a lot of great work. I built a news section that offered real-world dispatches from conferences and other events, written by the people who were there. We published features on the art and craft of producing new media, and profiled interesting and important players in blogging and podcasting I introduced product reviews, and worked with some great columnists. We published interviews with the likes of Leo Laporte, Matt Mullenweg, Arianna Huffington, and Ask A Ninja’s Kent and Doug. In general, my publishers gave me the freedom I needed to choose and assign the stories I wanted to tell. I thank them for that.
I also thank my lucky stars for the invaluable, constant, and supportive presence of managing editor Elisa M Welch, and creative director extraordinaire, Rob Hudgins. Both of these awesome folks have also recently chosen to move on to other projects.
Larstan is currently seeking funding for its ventures, including the Blogger & Podcaster network and for the magazine. I wish them the best of luck. The Spring 2008 issue is currently in production, and should be available in late April.
I’m not sure what’s next for me. I’ve been a writer for 20 years, and I remain an enthusiastic podcaster. I will continue producing my award-winning personal show, Shelly’s Podcast, as well as the new one about my journey to the Democratic National Convention as a delegate. I’ve always had a somewhat contrarian view of new media (I think we take ourselves waaaaay too seriously sometimes) and I look forward to sharing my unvarnished opinions in audio and blog form.
I’ll be Twittering, Uttering, and gadding about on the networks. I’ll blog here, and post updates to my main site page. That one will be undergoing a redesign, now that I have some cycles to spare.
Keep in touch, will ya?
03.01.08
Here’s our new tree
We’ll have this guy planted later this afternoon.
Mobile post sent by ShellyBrisbin using Utterz.
02.08.08
Cooking for One
01.20.08
It’s Not As Bad As I Thought
I took this here Internet quiz (shut up!) and my Apple adiction isn’t quite as bad as one might have suspected. I feel better now.
08.23.07
Revitalized!
And so we begin the next phase of the driveway project, with 12 yards of good dirt for the garden.I’ll be recording a new podcast tomorrow, most likely.
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08.04.07
Driveway Diggin Playlist
Frank asked me to put together a playlist to get hs blood going while he digs the driveway. Here, with great license taken, and a few blatant uses of songs with titles that are only loosely connected to the subject matter, is that playlist.
*I added a few more last night.
| Song | Artist |
| *Diga Diga Do | Mills Brothers |
| *I Never Picked Cotton | Johnny Cash |
| *Po Lazarus | Various Artist |
| *Workin for the Man | Roy Orbison |
| *I Dig Your Voodoo | the Naughty Ones |
| His Hometown | Cheryl Wheeler |
| Car Wheels On A Gravel Road | Lucinda Williams |
| Working in the Coal Mine | Devo |
| The Day John Henry Died | Drive-By Truckers |
| John Henry | Doc Watson |
| Hole In The Wall | Billy Idol |
| Hole In The Bucket | Catie Curtis |
| Trippin’ On A Hole In A Paper Heart | Stone Temple Pilots |
| Down In The Hole | Rolling Stones |
| Fixing A Hole | Beatles |
| Digging Your Scene | Blow Monkeys |
| I Dig Love | George Harrison |
| Dig In | Lenny Kravitz |
| Dig It | Beatles |
| Diggin’ On You | TLC |
| Dig Your Own Hole | Chemical Brothers |
| Digging In The Dirt | Peter Gabriel |
| Building a Road | Spottiswoode and His Enemies |
| Working on a Building | Meat Purveyors |
| Manhole | Duke Levine |
| Hole In The Road | Jennifer O’Connor |
| Big Rock Candy Mountain | Various Artists |
| Rockpile | Rockpile |
| (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville | R.E.M. |
| Rocky Road | The Dead Reckoners |
| Rock Bottom | Gurf Morlix |
| Bulldozers On The Loose | Rock ‘N’ Roll Stormtroopers |
| Pavement Cracks | Annie Lennox |
| Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods | Bill Kirchen |
| Hammer In My Hand | Grady |
| If I Had a Hammer | Nanci Griffith |
| Ditch Diggin’ | Southern Culture On The Skids |
08.02.07
If My Life Were A Game Of Jeopardy
Thanks to Joe, I am once again tagged. I confess that I actually enjoy being tagged. Wait, that sounds weird.
If your life were a game of Jeopardy, what would your categories be?
1. Films of the 1930s and 40s
2. Fun things to do in Austin, Texas that do not involve chain stores
3. Blind girl workarounds
4. Politics are fascinating, but sometimes mind-numblingly depressing
5. Bourbons I have known
6. Folk & alt-country music
7. Strategies for storing excess computer cables
Bonus category: Cat lady in training
And in turn I will tag some usual suspects: Charles, Carolyn and Bill. The rest of you people* need to get blogs.
*You people = my friends.
07.24.07
Flickr the Driveway
Frank continues to work on the driveway, while I sit inside earning money to pay for it, occasionally popping out to take photos.
Follow the driveway pictures or the podcast.
In driveway news, we’ve been hampered quite a lot by rain of late. Frank checked the week’s forecast before renting a tractor, but since he rented it, we’ve had a couple of rain days, and the chances for the remained of the week have been doubled. He was able to work through today, just getting the tractor onto the trailer as the thunder started rolleing in.
