08.30.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 2:55 am by Jason
Based on a request by Radio Sweethearts to create a completely random NPR podcast, I created NPR Unbound. It does basically that. I can’t go back to 1987, unfortunately, because NPR only started encoding in MP3 format in 2005.
Each day will generate a new random podcast. This way podcast feed readers won’t completely explode upon reading a completely random feed.
I thought it was a great idea, and it only took me a few hours to implement. I really should be sleeping instead, though.
I’ll put the source code in subversion one of these days. It’s not as exciting as All Tweets, though.
Have fun
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07.31.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:06 pm by Jason
Welcome to my very first public blog. I doubt there will be many people reading this, so I’ll keep it short.
I’m just beginning to do some side projects on the web. I needed a place to hold them, and a place to talk about them. Watch this blog for any updates to the stuff on this web site. Most of the projects will probably be related to NPR or public radio in some way. If you have any questions or comments, this blog is for you.
I’ll also try to point out any cool similar uses of technology, the internet and social media that I find out there.
A quick introduction. My name is Jason, and I’ve been working as a programmer in NPR Digital Media for about 3 years. Obviously, I don’t speak for them in any official way on this blog.
We just released an API that I’m very exited about, for use both on and off the job. My first project using it is an NPR Twitter Browser called All Tweets Considered. I’ll be making a more in depth post about it later.
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