The sharpest ideas, honest moments, and quotable insights pulled straight from our conversations across OpenChannels FM.
Being strategically annoying
“Oh, I’m just putting myself out there as much as I can and not taking no for an answer, I would say being strategically annoying at this point.“
Adam Weeks asks how Gina Gindorf reaches out to people and actually gets responses. Her lighthearted, self-aware response saying she’s “being strategically annoying” that shows that sometimes perseverance means embracing a bit of discomfort and not being afraid to follow up, even if it might feel awkward. Building Business Fortitude and Creativity in Digital Marketing
Sustainable Growth for CMS Projects
“You can easily, as a single editor, manage multiple thousands of pages that are in a powerful backend. You can rearrange everything so it’s all under your control and that got a lot of refinement in the backend. So you now do have context editing, you do have wizards when setting up content. So all of the things where you usually could have a mistake in a data workflow. So that’s basically being cared for. And that’s what we focused on for version 14.”
Daniel Fau, TYPO3’s Unique Structure and Global Expansion in Open Source CMS
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Podcasting Tech Adoption: A Community Effort
“You got to get the podcaster to understand it, you got to get the podcast hosting company to adopt it because they’re the ones that, you know, set your RSS feed and then you need to get the apps to adopt it… usually it’s the host first and then the app developer goes, okay, there’s five hosts that support this. Let me, let me include this in my app now because there’s enough people using it that I can actually display this stuff in the app.”
Matt Medeiros, Podcasting 2.0: The Open Source Movement Reshaping How We Create and Consume Audio
The Challenge of Standardizing Intents on the Web
“I always worry about any of these kind of massive philosophical changes for how we think about something on the web. It would be a great solution – I think Web Intents was actually… I don’t think Web Intents was the right solution. I’m happy to get into that later. We made a lot of mistakes designing that API, especially… it would have bit us coming five years later, ten years later, it would have really hit us. What are the smallest things you can solve first is something I learned from this whole experience. And for me… I actually feel quite alone on my own server, right? It’s just my own server with me on, and I don’t go to another site and follow… If I’m not in my own Mastodon client… I’m really not encouraged to follow them. I can just type a URL in, but it doesn’t autocomplete properly and a whole bunch of other things in that space. I’m just like, oh, you know what? I don’t even know whether this person is worth the effort of me to— I don’t mean it that way, but like—it’s…”
Paul Kinlan, Episode 754 Revisiting Web Intents and the Ongoing Challenges of Decentralized Web Services
