View from a Farley The Current Events and Opinion Weblog of Chris Farley

VFAF #2 – Teens in Tech

I was searching for a topic for this week’s episode and I changed my mind about ten times. I was going to talk about copyright, but just wasn’t getting excited about it today. Instead, I talk about Teens in Tech. On the internet, kids aren’t kids. Whether 9 or 90, if we don’t say that we’re kids, no one knows. That provides a unique opportunity for teens that are not recognized legally as adults to show a more mature side of themselves. I have one worry: that the creativity of childhood will be lost. To illustrate my point, I use podcasting as an example. I mention Max Murphy from Mac News Weekly, Daniel Brusilovsky from Apple Universe, and a little later on, Riley Kaminer from F12 Help Me.I mention the iPhone SDK because I think I would’ve been exiled from the world of Apple fans if I didn’t mention it. Not mentioning an Apple event is one of those things you just do not do.

Finally, Mark Temple will be joining me to help me get rid of the evil Dreamhost stuff that I spend too much time on. How can you let a simple error take down 500,000 domains!

I am treating View from a Farley as though it is still in beta. So here are the known bugs:

• Using the same music all the way through (I need to get enough money so Geoff Smith to compose a jingle for me)
• I describe teen podcasters as decent. They’re not decent, they’re GREAT!
• I say “dissertating” at one point. That is NOT a word. I think I’m going a little crazy.
• There are probably a whole bunch of other things too. E-mail me at chris@viewfromafarley.com if you have any.

I’d really like everyone to sound off in the comments about this episode. I tried a slightly different style and I want to know if everyone likes it. Also, please take a few minutes to take the View from a Farley survey. Just in case you had a frightening experience reading novels when you were growing up, it’s exactly seven questions long, so do not fear.

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