The Danosphere.

Alot of my fav people over @tcbn have been getting on the Twitter train, which I highly encourage as tcbn2.0 may feature some solid twitter integration [hint]- more on that later. At first sight twitter is a strange and confusing place, and can really leave you wondering “wtf is this?”. Well, here are my tips for new users to jump right into the twittosphere instead of just walking around the edges in confusion. Oh and make sure to follow me and follow the tcbn twitter account too!

One more thing, post a link to your twitter account on your blog or website, its how I have found most the TCBN tweeps,  no one is going to find you if you don’t advertise just a lil

This just passed through my crosshairs- RIT’s Report Mag, the school magazine for the Rochester Institute of Technology, just posted their 2009 April Fools Edition! Check it out here [PDF]!

Hey everyone! I have been really really busy lately, and thus haven’t had the time I usually do to post here and respond to requests. I know there are quite a few of you waiting for me to release source code to some of my projects. I will gladly release it- I just need time to get it all together, upload, link, describe, etc. Since I’m so busy working on v2 of tcbn (the college blog network) I haven’t had time to site down and get that all up on the site. It’s looking like I will have it up sometime in May, sorry to make everyone wait, but I wanted to let you know, I WILL be posting it!

In the meantime you can checkout my code snippets on snipt.org. Until them just hold on tight, I’ll still be making my usual random posts here but the source-code related stuff won’t be up til sometime in May. I’ll also be posting some other cool stuff I haven’t had time for around then as well. Thanks for your patience everyone, I really appreciate it!

The College Blog Network is changing, and they want their users to influence these changes. In an effort to tap into their users needs TCBN has opened a feedback system to gauge what features users want the most. Are you a TCBN user? Got an idea? Head to their feedback site to have your voice heard!

That’s right folks, somehow five years later I have managed to graduate RIT with a BS in Interactive Development. I was quick to switch my TCBN status to “Alumni” (via Control Panel>My Info) now that I’m finally free of the bonds of education (although the student loans will linger for quite some time).

In general it was all pretty surreal, after being in school for 5 years and being used to an endless stream of papers, projects, presentations, quizzes and exams day in and day out, now suddenly its all over. Done with. In my field masters degrees aren’t as benficial as some other fields so I plan on staying away from school for at least the next few years. I have a job lined up in D.C., where I’ve been working the past 6 years or so and I’m excited to finally get in and be working in the office (as opposed to the telecommuting I usually do).

I’ll be moving from NY down to MD and although I’m gonna miss the college life and my boys in NY, I know we will keep in touch so I’m not worried. I am very pleased to be leaving the gloom that is upstate NY for 8/12 months every year and covered with treacherous pathways they seem to call roads (responsible for 4 bent rims, 1 busted axle, and a blown lower ball joint), and some of the worst drivers in America hands down. So sunny MD with its blue skies, four season, and smooth roads is a welcome change.

I still have a bit of backed up work I have been meaning to post up [on this blog], that will be up soon as I now have some lounging time for the first time in what feels like ages. I also will be devoting a large portion of my time to upgrades, advances and new features for The College Blog Network. I have been meaning to redesign it to be easier to read and more interactive but these last few weeks of school had me truly “under the gun”. Now that I’m free I hope to pick up the pace on those improvements.

That’s it for now, expect more frequent posts and cool new TCBN features soon (if you found this through blogwire). But for now, I must get back to relaxin’… oh the joys of life after college

Lately I’ve been buried in work relating to my ever-closer graduation but somehow I managed to squeeze out this poster for the booth I was running at RIT’s first Innovation and Creativity Festival. While the audience wasn’t exactly the TCBN target demographic it was still good to just get out and spread the word about the College Blog Network. I literally whipped this up in about 3hrs late late the night before the festival. Not my best work but it printed very nicely and I think it conveys the idea behind TCBN well.

Although I haven’t been able to do much work on TCBN the past month because of school, after graduation there are some huge new features I plan on adding. Just counting the days til I’m out of school and can actually have some real time to dedicate to this project.