Ryan Price

Free Acquia Hosting | Acquia

rprice@ryanpricemedia.com (Ryan Price) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:58:00 -0500

free Acquia Hosting accounts to not for profit sites dedicated to promoting the adoption and usage of Drupal. For example, DrupalCamp websites and local Drupal user group websites would qualify for free Acquia Hosting. The program starts in October or November, but you can sign-up now if you have a site that qualifies.

In exchange for free hosting, we require that the footer section of each page displays "Hosted by Acquia", and that an Acquia logo is displayed somewhere on your homepage.

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2009 Flip Mino HD Demo

rprice@ryanpricemedia.com (Ryan Price) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:38:00 -0500

What’s been going on in my life?

rprice@ryanpricemedia.com (Ryan Price) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:04:00 -0500

Lemur!, originally uploaded by Liberatr.net.

Um… where has the time gone? So many things have been happening lately, I feel like if I were to tell them all here, I’d pass another 2 weeks just re-counting all of them. After the New Media Think and Drink, (go listen to the audio, and the audio of the 2nd half), I was excited about Community Building and Social Media Consulting even more than I have been in a long time. Also, the Digital Media Banner Center asked me to contribute to their New and Emerging Industries Task Force, which is basically trying to find jobs for journalists who have been laid off recently. I was very excited and honored to be a part of something constructive and forward-thinking. Needless to say, they were able to (once again) gather a group of smart, talented and well-experienced people and get them to talk about changing the world. I love that kind of stuff. We have been doing lots of awesome DrupalEasy stuff lately – we have great podcasts with book authors and our patented “bookaway” contests, where you get Drupal books just for listening and commenting. I also got the chance to FLY up do to some Drupal Training in North Carolina. It was the first time that someone (specifically, Tomas and Jerry) actually FLEW to come hear me speak. I was proud. I had a great time and got to try some wonderful craft beers at the Flying Saucer in Raleigh. I also learned that Raleigh has a Drupal User Group, but a bit too late. They actually had their meeting the same night I was headed home. Maybe next time! The new house is treating me very well, the cats, Mariah and I are all settling in just fine, but Fozzie (my cat) has to stay in his cage, because he’s still trying to heal his leg, and he gets in too many fights with Litmus and Loki (Mariah’s cats), who are much older and set in their ways. He really likes chasing them around the house and is constantly getting hit in the face while trying to mount the large cat tree in the living room. It’s also really nice working here. I have been “working from home” for most of the past 6 years, but only in this house have I ever had a dedicated room as an office, and an atmosphere that was so conducive to working and collaborating with others. I think getting this house will be one of the things I look back on as being very good for my work and creative lives, in addition to the benefits everyone else gets from owning a house. We already had one big party here, back on Talk Like a Pirate Day, and a few weeks ago, we tested out the Party Patio, the BBQ grill, and the fire pit. A large part of my last few months was actually dedicated to working with a friend of mine, Kyle, on teaching him Drupal, and updating the website for his podcast, the Student of the Game. That site and Florida Creatives are two of the ideas that have really stuck back from the days when I was doing Liberatr more full-time. Kyle was laid off, and I was trying to introduce him to web site building and freelancing. We got pretty far with the whole idea, but it’s not like you can just flip a switch and change someone’s life, so he’s taken a contract with some place crunching database rows and generating reports. We’ll keep working on it, just a bit slower. That’s fine, because I need to work too. Speaking of Florida Creatives, we are inching up on the start of the 4th year of Orlando Happy Hours for creative people. Our regular meetup will take place on the 16th at Crooked Bayou, just like it always does. I’ve also been trying to delegate some of the responsibility, like website design. Erik Baldwin is a fantastic designer and a good friend, and he’s been coming up with some designs based on my rudimentary wireframes, and I’ve also been adding new features to the site, like the Communties and Meetups page. I’m not sure how this feature will ultimately present itself, but it’s already better than a flat wiki page with just text and links. There’s nothing stopping anyone from adding new ones, but we’re not exactly advertising the feature just yet. Also this week, I have been having some problems with an old server I keep around for hosting personal sites and sites for friends, so I started the very large task of moving several gigabytes of files over to Amazon S3. Namely, all the podcasts I recorded a few years back, and everything Kyle produced for the Student of the game in the past 4 seasons of football. As far as I can tell, everything is happily hosted by “the cloud” now, and the end users don’t know the difference. One more geeky update, and I’ll be through. It’s about Twitter, so feel free to tune out now. Twitter finally added a feature… something useful, and something that would be hard for a 3rd party to add. It’s called Lists, and I started making some. They’re useful for me, as I’m following 1700 people and my attempts to make the list shorter are really just making me find more people I want to follow, but for a multitude of subjects. One is just plain old technology, which is what my RSS reader used to be for. The next is a collection of the other Twitter accounts I own or manage, and hopefully one day twitter will let me say WHY I made each list one day. The last and most complete right now is my list of Drupal people. I think I’m also going to start one for coworking, but I haven’t really done much with it yet. I’m sure I’m leaving stuff out, but I feel pretty well vented right now. I really need to get to this blogging thing more often…

Driving through New Orleans

rprice@ryanpricemedia.com (Ryan Price) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:59:00 -0500

Driving through New Orleans

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disambiguity » Make it measurable: set clear goals & success criteria for your projects

rprice@ryanpricemedia.com (Ryan Price) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:07:00 -0500

"Finally managed to write a blog post that’s not (specifically) about Drupal. It’s about project goals& success criteria"

Be specific
Measuring success criteria
What’s in it for me?

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Tags: users, usability, ux, blogs, goal_setting, metrics, business, design, guides

Running the White House Web site on Drupal is a political disaster. - By Chris Wilson - Slate Magazine

rprice@ryanpricemedia.com (Ryan Price) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:02:00 -0500

In yet another repudiation of its predecessor, the Obama administration this week migrated the White House Web site to Drupal, the popular open-source Web site management software. By dumping the Bush administration's proprietary system and embracing software authored by the community and available to everyone, the consensus holds, the White House embodies the very essence of the new politics. Print This ArticlePRINTDiscuss in the FrayDISCUSSEmail to a FriendE-MAILGet Slate RSS FeedsRSSShare This ArticleRECOMMEND...Single PageSINGLE PAGE Yahoo! BuzzFacebook FacebookPost to MySpace!MySpaceMixx MixxDigg DiggReddit RedditDel.icio.us del.icio.usFurl FurlMa.gnolia.com Ma.gnoliaSphere SphereStumble UponStumbleUponCLOSE

I wish Drupal and the White House nothing but happiness. But I have a feeling this story ends badly.

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Community Supported Agriculture in Tampa/Brandon: Lancaster’s Hydroponic Farm

rprice@ryanpricemedia.com (Ryan Price) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:59:00 -0500

Locally grown organic produce delivered right to your door every week, if you live near Tampa. The Lancaster’s Hydro Farm website says they are located in Brandon. From T.S. Elliot’s YouTube Channel: I get a weekly deliver of a fruit and vegetable basket from a local farm. I describe how i am going to use forever bags to store the produce. Do a search in your local area for the same service.

Do you have CSA in your area? Are you a subscriber? How much of your weekly food for meals is actually grown locally?

Audobon Park Community Market

rprice@ryanpricemedia.com (Ryan Price) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:47:00 -0500

Every Wednesday Night, Stardust and Ourlando play host to Audobon Park Community Market from 6pm – 10pm.

Bring cash, check out some local music, artists, and food. Holly Riggs shows us her Tarot booth and talks about her music. Ryan also shows off some of the food vendors.

UCF incubator pumps millions into region - Orlando Business Journal:

rprice@ryanpricemedia.com (Ryan Price) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:33:00 -0500

“Dollar-for-dollar, no other form of public investment has the same economic impact as incubation,” said William H. Owen, president and CEO of the research firm that conducted the study, Real Estate Research Consultants Inc.

Other findings from the study:

• The program helped create more than 1,600 jobs in the region.

• Every $1 invested by local governments participating in the UCF incubator program is returning at least $5.25 in local government revenue in the form of property taxes and sales taxes.

• Since its inception, the program has helped 125 companies, including 70 current clients. To date, more than 30 companies have graduated from the incubation program.

• Twenty-seven of the graduate companies have remained and are still in business in Central Florida, typically earning between $1 million and $3 million in annual revenue.

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Orlando Critical Mass

rprice@ryanpricemedia.com (Ryan Price) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:29:00 -0500

Orlando Critical Mass

Meets every Friday at the Science Center, then rides through downtown. I love the pedestrian who was pissed at them for "blocking traffic" and the hipsters who grumbled back at him. http://www.myspace.com From: liberatr Views: 658

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Driving through New Orleans

rprice@ryanpricemedia.com (Ryan Price) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:39:00 -0500

Driving through New Orleans

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11/06/2009

rprice@ryanpricemedia.com (Ryan Price) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:32:00 -0500

Liberatr.net

11/06/2009

rprice@ryanpricemedia.com (Ryan Price) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:41:00 -0500

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Orlando Critical Mass

rprice@ryanpricemedia.com (Ryan Price) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:40:00 -0500

Orlando Critical Mass

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Driving through New Orleans

rprice@ryanpricemedia.com (Ryan Price) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:02:00 -0500

Driving through New Orleans

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Orlando Critical Mass

rprice@ryanpricemedia.com (Ryan Price) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:59:00 -0500

Orlando Critical Mass

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Driving through New Orleans

rprice@ryanpricemedia.com (Ryan Price) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:38:00 -0500

Driving through New Orleans

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Orlando Critical Mass

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Orlando Critical Mass

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Flag | drupal.org

rprice@ryanpricemedia.com (Ryan Price) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:26:00 -0500

Using this module, the site administrator can provide any number of flags for nodes, comments, or users. Some possibilities include bookmarks, marking important, friends, or flag as offensive. With extensive views integration, you can create custom lists of popular content or keep tabs on important content.

The 2.0 version of Flag contains the following improvements over the 1.1 version of the module:

Flagging for anonymous users (even with page caching enabled). Requires Session API.
Import/Export support.
Faster table indexes and schema.
Services module integration.
Activity 2 module integration.
More powerful trigger and actions integrations.
Flag access controls (flag only others/own content) and access API.

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Insert | drupal.org

rprice@ryanpricemedia.com (Ryan Price) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:23:00 -0500

Insert is a utility that makes inserting images and links to files into text areas or WYSIWYGs much easier. It adds a simple JavaScript-based button to FileField and ImageField widgets. When used with ImageField and ImageCache, images may be inserted into text areas with a specific ImageCache preset.

This module was previously known as FileField Insert.

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Tags: drupaleasypodcast, modules, files, image, imagecache, tinymce, ckeditor, wysiwyg