Category Archives: JKast

Roadblock: Other Projects

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A note on JKast and JKFilter, two projects.

JKast, IndieGamerPodcast

Whatever is left of this podcasting business, I’m giving it up. The file will exist somewhere, but not on this server.

I’d love to get back to doing a roundtable discussion on all sorts of random topics I and others find awesome, but it doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen again anytime soon.

It would be nice to be able to talk my way through a blog post to alleviate some wrist and forearm pains, but I’m just so used to reading and writing.

I know it’s been awhile since I posted, but it’s still been sitting there at the back of my brain, slowly tugging away for more attention. This also means… IndieGamerPodcast is on hold as well.

JKFilter

This thing started as an experiment two weeks ago. I basically updated a Chyrp installation with a lot of commentary on feed posts, as well as some interesting links I found on the Internet. I even tied a Twitter account to the fun.

One of the goals of this experiment was to see how I would want to share my links to the world that I found through a feed reader. Another was to find out how to harness the implicit data that was being created by me sharing a certain post on a certain topic.

Needless to say, I’ve decided to put this link sharing business on this blog. Another roadblock blasted through.

Now To Get Cooking

Throwing stuff away feels great. Especially if it’s tracked somewhere.

Commentary On “Commentary!: The Musical”

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A progressively less-edited first episode. I got tired of editing at around the 25% mark. 36 minutes of me and @ehjayb (blog).

Really, this conversation should have started when I found out that there was an amazing “commentary” for the amazing Joss Whedon series Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog a long while ago. I quote the word “commentary” because it really could have been a CD release by itself. Since there was no real way to get at this awesome content, other than buying the DVD itself, I ended up pirating the thing about two days ago.

I am first to admit that this is a very grey area: I definitely pirated the content that I should have paid for. Of course, I have my justifications… I paid for the series when it came out on iTunes. I don’t want to buy a physical DVD (ever again, mind you… but maybe for you people who want it) and have to divide up the commentary into tracks so I could enjoy them on the go on my iPod. I would have loved to have the ability to pay a little bit more extra to get the commentary track. That’s pretty much all I wanted to say.

Instead, this whole thing spun into a podcast episode. I hope to actually have a separate feed so that the podcast can be more than just an mp3 attached to a blog entry. Or maybe podpress will work just fine…

Sidenote: I can’t believe I didn’t say a word about NPH in this podcast.

Sidenote #2: FBI, please don’t burn down my apartment. Thanks.

JKast – The New Podcast

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After months and months of trying to find someone to start up a podcast with, I got a newfound friend to get into a Skype conversation with me, with something half relevant to what I wanted to talk about. Tangents be welcomed around these parts.

What’s the deal with the name, JKast?

It’s kind of an inside joke. A long time ago, I liked to slap on a JK in front of all my domains and project names. JKorp.net was one… then JKmain.com. To this day, I do not know why I thought this was ultra cool.

Now, throwing a JK in front of anything with a hard “k” sound that actually doesn’t start with a “k” has become kind of something I do for fun. A few of my friends actually take this to a whole new level. I’m not certain, but it might have been Alex that came up with the name in the first place, but I don’t know… I must have had this name in the back of my head before he spoke about it.

What is it about?

I’m fairly certain it’s just going to be whatever the heck I feel like talking about, hence the name. If you know me in person, I’m fairly certain you’ll enjoy me sounding like a total idiot.

Web Applications. Technology. Internetz. Apple. Movies. Music. Video Games. Nerd Rage. coughRomanticComediescough You know, the stuff that I kinda know something about.

What’s the Format?

It’s going to be fairly unedited. I edited this first episode a bit, just so that I didn’t sound like a complete idiot (I still have a feeling I do…). I’m shooting for 30 minutes to an hour, but I have a feeling they can totally vary in length.

And we all know that the probability for awesome tangents rise with the number of people I talk with anyway.

Who’s going to be involved?

I don’t forsee any permanent host, but that can be changed. One thing’s for certain, I don’t want to be the only one talking in these podcasts, which means I will have to find someone to talk to. I may have dry spells because either I can’t find anyone or I’m just too chicken to find new people to talk with.

So where is it?

Um. I’m working on it. I hope to have it up before midnight CST.

Also, I’m going to have to find an image for the podcast. Not sure what I want to do here…