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Show #26 features recaps from the past three weeks of MetaFilter. It was recorded on May 7, 2008 and runs about 50 minutes long.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 10:14 PM on May 9, 2008
(29 comments)
Server upgrade is complete, but there were certainly bumps along the way. If you spot any weirdness after the fact, drop it here.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 11:33 AM on April 18, 2008
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Show #25 features recaps from the past two weeks of MetaFilter. It was recorded on April 11, 2008 and runs about an hour long.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 10:36 PM on April 14, 2008
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Slight preferences tweaks:
birthday (year optional) and relationship status (
datingfilter!) were just added.
My profile shows what it might look like to logged-in users.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 4:57 PM on April 10, 2008
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Show #24 features an interview with singer-songwriter Jill Sobule and recaps from the month of March on MetaFilter. It was recorded on March 21, 2008 and runs an hour long.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 1:41 PM on March 25, 2008
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Holy crap, the back tagging project (
recent update) is complete! 43,000 old posts have been keyworded by a team of hundreds of volunteers here. A huge thanks to all, I never thought we'd finish up all those old MeFi posts.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 11:54 PM on March 20, 2008
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The Morning News is throwing their annual
Tournament of Books to figure out the best book of 2007. A new twist this year is the
Making Book Tournament where you bet on what the winner will be, with the proceeds going to
First Book, a literacy foundation. MeFi is dollar matching bets up to $1,000 for the contest.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 7:49 PM on March 4, 2008
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Show #23 is just after the one-year anniversary for podcast and covers all the best bits of MetaFilter in February. It was recorded on February 27, 2008 and runs an hour long.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 11:10 PM on March 2, 2008
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Show #22 of the podcast features updates from the last few weeks of MetaFilter. It was recorded on January 30, 2008 and runs 53 minutes long.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 12:43 PM on February 1, 2008
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The new
Search is officially live. Full details to follow.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 9:36 PM on January 31, 2008
(69 comments)
New favorites page!
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 5:18 PM on January 29, 2008
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I see there are "
wind and solar powered" web hosts and I assume they just buy carbon and alternate energy credits because I doubt your site would stay up when it's dark and the wind isn't blowing. I saw Dreamhost described as a "
carbon-neutral company" the other day. If I wanted to offset the energy required to power the mefi servers, how would I go about doing that? Just calculate hours in a day multiplied by the watt rating on the power supplies (as a worst-case scenario), then just buy
alternate energy credits for that amount?
(asking here because it's mefi related)
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 7:00 PM on January 26, 2008
(44 comments)
Announcing: mobile.metafilter.com
It's a new version of the sites designed for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Try it out on the device, songs from MeFi Music even play in the device (works best on wifi of course). A short video if it in action is inside.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 5:35 PM on January 24, 2008
(92 comments)
Show #21 of the podcast is our return from a long holiday break. We've got an interview with
Jesse Thorn followed by recaps from the best of the last six weeks of MetaFilter. It was recorded on January 16, 2008 and runs 1 hour 10 minutes long.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 1:06 PM on January 18, 2008
(57 comments)
We've cleaned up a handful of bugs around comment forms and comment pages today. The tally is inside:
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 3:20 PM on December 6, 2007
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FYI: it took a while but last month,
firefox finally surpassed IE as the most popular browser here (that's data for the month of November).
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 3:10 PM on December 6, 2007
(63 comments)
Show #20 of the podcast is a call-in show featuring questions from various members of the site. It was recorded on November 30, 2007 and runs about 50 minutes long.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 5:49 PM on December 3, 2007
(127 comments)
We've finally finished a several month long project today by reworking the back end of Metafilter to bring site security practices up to date. The new login system
we were testing yesterday is now live for everyone. And you can even change your password now, after 8 years of everyone asking!
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 4:26 PM on November 29, 2007
(76 comments)
Podcast call-in! For the next 48 hours, call +1 (503) 487-0014 to leave a message for this week's podcast (try to keep it to less than a minute long). We'll pick 5-10 of the best ones, play them on the show and answer any questions.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 10:11 AM on November 27, 2007
(40 comments)
Show #19 of the podcast features an interview with
mothershock (Andi Buchanan) and recaps from MetaFilter sites. It was recorded on November 16, 2007 and runs about 50 minutes long.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 9:54 PM on November 16, 2007
(22 comments)
I added some quick hacky iCal support to the upcoming meetups sidebar here on MetaTalk. Hit the "iCal" link to get a properly formatted calendar file you can subscribe to and see all the upcoming meetups in your calendar of choice.
Here's what it looks like in iCal.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 2:09 PM on November 12, 2007
(18 comments)
Show #18 of the podcast features recaps from all sections of the site and some talk about new and upcoming features. It was recorded on November 2, 2007 and runs about 70 minutes long.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 5:28 PM on November 6, 2007
(38 comments)
We just launched contacts activity (
looks like this, also on the sidebar of the front page showing the most recent 10 things). More explanation inside.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 3:11 PM on November 2, 2007
(171 comments)
Jessica Hagy, author of
Indexed, the Venn Diagrams-on-cards blog, on how she went from unknown blog to bookdeal in just a few months: "
About a week after I posted the first batch last August, somebody linked the blog to Metafilter. Whoever you are, thank you! That's how my agent (it's still strange to me that I have an honest-to-god agent) found me, and from there, it just sort of took off." Crazy.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 10:38 AM on October 30, 2007
(15 comments)
Show #17 of the podcast features an interview with
scody and recaps from the last three weeks of the MeFi universe. It was recorded on October 19, 2007 and runs about an hour long.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 4:49 PM on October 23, 2007
(27 comments)
We added a bunch MeFi Mail updates that seemed worthy of a post here (and if you have more ideas maybe add them here)
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 10:51 AM on October 23, 2007
(102 comments)
MeFi Mail is being rolled out, so pardon the dust for the next hour or so and once it's live, feel free to discuss it here.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 2:26 PM on October 19, 2007
(437 comments)
Show #16 of the podcast recaps from the last three weeks of MeFi and Ask MeFi. It was recorded on September 27, 2007 and runs about an hour long.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 9:01 AM on September 30, 2007
(66 comments)
Show #15 of the podcast includes call-in questions from a handful of members and recaps from the last two weeks of MeFi and Ask MeFi. It was recorded on August 30, 2007 and runs about 50 minutes long.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 3:37 PM on September 10, 2007
(56 comments)
We're podcasting tomorrow and would love to get some questions beforehand. As always, call Call +1 (503) 487-0014 and leave a message. We'll play back the good ones on the show and answer them.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 6:51 PM on September 6, 2007
(33 comments)
We've began updating the metafilter KML file again. If you're using Google Earth, point it at metafilter.com/metafilter.kml to get the latest data (it's about 3Mb so it'll take a while). It'll be automatically updated once a week from here on out.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 2:27 PM on August 28, 2007
(36 comments)
Show 14 was recorded on Friday, August 24th and features mefi and ask mefi recaps with Matt and Jessamyn. It runs about 45 minutes [much more inside]
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 11:04 PM on August 26, 2007
(39 comments)
We're in the process of updating the server. You probably noticed about 20min of downtime and things may be up and down throughout this evening but should resume and hopefully be faster later today and tomorrow.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 3:59 PM on August 20, 2007
(32 comments)
Lucky show #13 is the
viewer mail show, featuring questions from 13 mefites that jessamyn and I answered. It's about 40 minutes long and we recorded it on August 17, 2007 [much more inside]
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 5:28 PM on August 17, 2007
(72 comments)
Viewer Mail time! For tomorrow's podcast, we're gonna take questions from members and answer them during the show. Call
+1 (503) 487-0014 and record your question. We'll answer and play back the best questions we get for the next podcast.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 6:58 PM on August 16, 2007
(84 comments)
Here's show 12 of the podcast, with
melissa may as our featured guest. It was recorded on July 27, 2007, and is about an hour long (links inside)
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 5:44 PM on July 30, 2007
(48 comments)
New feature: RSS on all threads. If you're using IE7, Firefox, or Safari, open any thread on mefi, ask mefi, metatalk, music, or travel and you'll see a small RSS icon in your address bar. Click that, and you'll find a feed of the post and all comments. We'll soon add explicit links on the pages themselves, but for now the autodiscovery tag should work. Use this feature to track new comments on questions you've asked, threads you were interested in hearing followups, and any other thread you'd like to stay up to date on in your RSS reader.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 6:55 PM on July 18, 2007
(54 comments)
Here's show 11 of the podcast for July 6, 2007. It's about an hour long (links inside)
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 3:53 PM on July 6, 2007
(71 comments)
Portland meetup
party is less than two weeks away, and I need to do a head count. If you're attending the 8th anniversary party, please
RSVP on this page. Thanks!
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 3:17 PM on July 2, 2007
(126 comments)
Feature Idea: adding a PDF viewer? I recently installed a firefox plugin that redirects all PDFs to an inline viewer. For instance, check out
this post today and then look at
the PDF in docufarm. On windows, I hate waiting for Adobe's PDF plugin to load and on a mac I hate downloading and then opening in a viewer (and having to delete from my desktop later). This seems really simple and easy, and you can download anything you want to keep. Sometimes good posts hinge on a PDF, and this would make that easier to read online. Does it make sense to move PDF links over to docufarm?
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 12:32 PM on June 20, 2007
(82 comments)
Here's show 10 of the podcast for June 15, 2007. It's about 25 min long.[
direct mp3 link]
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 7:44 PM on June 15, 2007
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at 9:47 AM on May 31, 2007
(117 comments)
An
amazing interview with
ColdChef about what life is like running a funeral home and what the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina taught him about MetaFilter. Also, a recap of the last two weeks, recorded on May 25, 2007. It runs long at 1 hour, 9 minutes total (about 35minutes with ColdChef, but totally worth it). [
direct mp3 link]
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 6:46 PM on May 25, 2007
(69 comments)
Minor feature add: you can set your flickr username in your account, and it will automatically grab your last six photos uploaded and add them to your userpage.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 12:43 PM on May 23, 2007
(216 comments)
There's a new user history interface, at http://www.metafilter.com/activity/(your user ID). It's linked on user pages now and provides a consistent view of your posts, comments, and things favorited by others (including a new most popular favorited list from your history). Three cheers for
pb for building it, it should be much easier to use and more consistent than the previous way we did things.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 8:36 PM on May 16, 2007
(141 comments)
Recap from the last two weeks plus an interview with
jjg and the new theme song by cortex, recorded on May 11, 2007. Also:
Podcast site.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 1:53 PM on May 11, 2007
(54 comments)
