June 27, 2006
Behold - Plotbot!
Unleashed now to the world at large - Plotbot!Beta!
Plotbot is a webapp developed by me and my good friend Brad for collaborative screenwriting. We've got an AJAXalicious interface that allows for commenting, ease of editing, versioning, and screenplay formatting, all housed in a context that we hope will facilitate good, meaningful collaboration.
We've built Plotbot with wiki principles in mind, so every change or addition to a screenplay can be easily restored to an earlier version, even if deleted. As the owner of a screenplay, you can determine what permissions others have, and lock down scenes to prevent further edits. And everything you type in Plotbot is easily downloadable in Rich Text Format (allowing for reimportation into Final Draft, for example) or XML, if anyone wants to get geeky with it. And, of course, any project can be Creative Commons-ed up for maximum remixing goodness, if the project creator so chooses.
We're generally interested in seeing what sort of awesomeness we can write with a large group of people (to that end, be sure to check out and contribute a line or two to our Taste-Test Zombies screenplay, or our Getting Things Done in Prison screenplay), but we also wanted to build something useful for writing our own projects. We're hoping you'll find it useful, too.
See for yourself - sign up with the invite code splitlevel at Plotbot now. If you've already signed up in our early beta testing, maybe you'd like to invite some friends?
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June 21, 2006
The Gospel of Stephen Colbert
The Word is spreading :
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June 20, 2006
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Mr. T walks us through a fashion show with advice to "table the label...and wear your own name": "With her mustard socks and ketchup sash, she's a real hot dog."
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June 19, 2006
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per someone else's comment "If not for the exif info, I wouldn't have believed this was actually a photo."
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Ha!
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June 18, 2006
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Also of note, the Dateline show on catching sexual predators alerts us to the fact that there are 50,000 of them online at any moment. That's also the same number of liberal, America-hating professors who agree with the terrorists and perpetrators of myriad other crimes, including kidnapping children in the 1980s and murdering via Satanic ritual sacrifice in the early 1990s.
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Low Culture's on a roll!
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Really? It was that insignificant?
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Diving into Summer
Since I live in Southern California, summer really feels like it started a couple of months ago. But today was the annual initiation of the pool here, and we had quite a bit of fun testing out Dodson's camera underwater.
Here's to high air conditioning bills and deplorable heat!
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June 15, 2006
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I kinda like this blackbird wallpaper.
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The Plotbot wants more mySpace friends. Anyone care to add him?
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Ha!
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More stuff to learn and do.
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And ever so elegantly.
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Best use/implementation of lightbox?
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One year later.
It's the anniversary of this here site, and things are looking a little worse for the wear. I've been trying to herd cats, time-wise, and it's made me a little quiet publicly as of late. I found myself heading to Vancouver the weekend before last, thinking "Have I really not uploaded anything to Flickr since the last time I was in Vancouver?" and "Was that really three months ago?"
A lot has happened in that short span - SXSW, the IA Summit in Vancouver BC, the Ja-Sig/UPortal conference last week, a vacation, a 27th birthday (!), an eighth anniversary (!!), allergy tests, sinus issues, facehugger-like medical appliances, lots of little semi-secret projects and one increasingly less-secret project - so I'll be looking a little bit backwards and a little bit forwards to catch up, for anyone listening.
I've also got a lot of stuff on my plate for the future, including an inevitable redesign of splitlevel. Of course, at my current pace, I'll be lucky to get it done in time for the November CSS Reboot, so let the procrastination countdown begin. But the last year has given me a lot to work with moving forward, so whenever I get around to it, it should be good and should make my online life a little less messy and scattered.
Anyways, that's my attempt to write a "it's been quiet here/i'm not posting but will be soon" post without saying "It's been a little quiet here... but I'll be posting again soon." So there you are.
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June 02, 2006
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holy goodness, this is the best flickr set EVER.
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