The last weekend in April, I was asked to be a Technology Mentor and judge at the first StoryCode StoryHack. StoryHack was a hack-a-thon for storytelling. Usually, hack-a-thons are sessions in which software developers attempt to create products in a short, focused amount of time. A weekend, say. They are often fueled by a lot [...]
Read more →by Yanyi Luo and Andy Hunter In launching Broadcastr, we wanted to provide a way to imbue the world with our voices. Between long-form radio and the 3-second recording, a 3-minute broadcast done well can still contain the emotional, sensory, and significant aspects of a story without extended production or multiple recordings. Think of it [...]
Read more →On Saturday, March 3rd, I gave a presentation with Heidi Hysell at DIYDays in New York City. The subject of the presentation was “Working with a Creative Technologist”. The aim of the talk was to educate storytellers about working with a technology person on their projects. The entire presentation is here: DIYDays NY 2012 – [...]
Read more →Prologue In the short history of web technology we’ve seen the backend software available for building websites evolve at a furious pace, but the infrastructure options available to us has remained fairly static. Until recently your choices for hosting were limited to a server closet with whatever hardware you could afford, or renting space and/or [...]
Read more →We are building out the new front-end for Broadcastr using a bunch of client-side JavaScript frameworks to handle the heavy lifting with regards to creating and handling models, collections, views and (eventually) routing. The idea is that this will completely separate out our backend and front-end code bases, allowing for better encapsulation on both ends. [...]
Read more →We use glass because it’s unassuming; the most transparent form of hardware to encase and present the infinitude of software. We use glass because we haven’t yet found a way to transfigure the world into a blank slate. Yet, why should we aspire to this illusion at all? Technology, in this way, makes us dishonest.
Read more →We’re coming out with a big, beautiful redesign that overhauls the look and feel of Broadcastr so it’s easier and more fun to share stories about the places you live in. And there’s going to be way more pictures. We want people to keep discovering great stuff, and it’ll help a lot if they have pretty [...]
Read more →Since June we’ve been hunkered down working on a full redesign of Broadcastr. The new iPhone app will debut at the end of September, Android a month later, and web for the holidays, at which point we will officially be out of beta! We’re proud of the look and feel of the new apps and [...]
Read more →Welcome to the Broadcastr beta. Broadcastr is a work in progress. You’ll stumble across bugs now and then, and we already have a whole list of improvements we’re going to make in the next few months. We hope you’ll help. As our beta users, you’re the community who will make Broadcastr great. How? By recording [...]
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