Ryan j Budke

I just got done watching the first episode of This American Life on Showtime. It’s the first time the long-running NPR show has made an appearance on TV despite being rumored for the better part of a decade. Holy crap, it’s amazing. I never would have thought that I would be as emotionally invested in a cloned bull as I was with Second Chance and his family.

I should have expected nothing less than amazing though. Ira Glass and the rest of the team that works on the fantastic NPR version have been apparently working on the television edition for over a year, and it certainly shows. I love the radio version, and as much as I’ve been on the edge of my seat waiting for this one, I have to admit that I was more than a little concerned. Would it translate ok? I love Super Size Me, and while there are some standout episodes, 30 Days (it’s television counterpart) doesn’t hold a candle to it.

My fears were quickly squashed with TAL’s opening piece about a woman remembering an accident on a bus when she was a little girl. From there I was wrapped up in two equally amazing stories that you have to watch to appreciate. I’m going to try and see if I can talk to Ira Glass and crew for Netscape, I think they’d make an awesome piece. I do have one request though, I want more!!

One of the biggest stigmata that Netscape encounters is that we’re old. An old company, an old site, old technology. It’s days like today that I live for.

As Tom put it: We came, we saw, we OpenIDed

Big congratulations to our Development team, those guys are awesome, and amaze me everyday. Oh, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Well, this is now the third time in a year that I’ve completely lost my blog and am starting over from scratch. No problem though, it’s something I was planning on doing anyways. I’m going to try and post a little bit more often, and have looked into doing something with a Tumblr blog since that’s a little more my style and quick and random. I was using Twitter… but I’m over that (opinions to come later).

So for those of you that don’t know, I recently moved to LA. There’s lots of opportunities for Netscape with me being out here. Speaking of which, the team is on fire over there recently, make sure you check out the amazing new My.Netscape and prepare yourselves for the awesomeness that will be the new Netscape browser. This is going to be a huge year and I could not be happier with the team I’m on. But again, more to come on that soon.