This week’s guest, Halsted Bernard, has quite a multitude of interests (gaming, linguistics, virtual reality, cooking, fountain pens, quantified self), so it was hard to narrow it down to just a couple for the microcast, but we managed to discuss analog journaling in a digital hangout, her science fiction responsibilities at the library, and her cat Zen.

(Interested in joining the online hangout for analog journaling? Send a mention to @cygnoir!)

Episode 29: @cygnoir Transcript

This week, our guest is Simon Woods from the UK. He is the creator of the Micro.blog community resource @til, aka Today I Learned. We talk about his life as a citizen of the Internet, which includes blogging, working from home, and cats, of course.

What Micro.blog Needs, posted by Simon on August 31, 2018.

Episode 28: @simonwoods Transcript

Today we feature a chat with Sameer Vasta, “an avid letterwriter, an avid pedestrian, and an avid reader.” We talk about his work in employee experience for the government of Ontario, and his thoughts on language and civility in online communities, including Micro.blog.

Episode 27: @vasta Transcript

I get a second chance to record in the very cool Airstream podcast studio at XOXO conference, because I ran into Aaron Parecki. He is an organizer at StreamPDX, so he has the keys to the Airstream! Aaron is also one of the founders of the IndieWeb movement, so we talk about IndieWeb, Micro.blog, and the importance of having your own domain to control your content and your internet presence.

IndieWebCamp

IndieWebCat

This is a special extra edition of Micro Monday, recorded at the XOXO Festival with Doug Beal. The interview was recorded in an Airstream Trailer, the mobile podcast and storytelling studio provided by StreamPDX. It was a fun experience, and I thank Doug for being the guinea pig and doing a live recording on a moment’s notice.

Foolscap Convention, February 1-3, 2019, Seattle, WA

Two Micro Monday episodes on one Monday! They don’t call it Labor Day in the U.S. for nothing.

In this episode of Micro Monday, we talk to Belle Cooper in Melbourne, Australia, who is the creator of the Android Micro.blog client Pico. She is also one half of the team at Hello Code, developers of Exist and Larder. We talk quite a bit about the community spirit at Micro.blog and how it’s evolving, but we do spend a little time at the end to chat about Belle’s beautiful Samoyed puppy and why Samoyeds make the worst guard dogs.

This week’s special episode is a Q&A with Manton Reece, founder of Micro.blog. Jean poses questions submitted by the Micro.blog community, including:

It’s a little longer than the typical Micro Monday microcast! We look forward to hearing what you think and what questions you have for a future Q&A episode.

This week, Jean talks to Collin Donnell in a wide-ranging episode that starts out with a look at the current state of affairs in social networking but ends on an upbeat note that includes dogs, guinea pigs and the popularity of photoblogging. Collin: “It took me a little while to realize how much Micro.blog isn’t Twitter, that it’s really a completely different thing.”

PS. Collin is the one who helped me level up in my podcast production skills. I highly recommend his blog post How To Sound Good On A Podcast! – Jean

This week, Jean has a great chat with Dori Smith, a longtime blogger, programmer, and writer of great books, such as Javascript: Visual QuickStart Guide. Backup Brain, the blog she created with her late husband Tom Negrino, is almost 20 years old. Her experience gives her an interesting perspective on blogging and social media.