beta of unicyclist.org

Finally I can announce the beta of 'unicyclist.org'
(http://unicyclist.org).
Please read my first post.

The website now is already multiple Gb's big; over 1100 movies.
The whole setup is made to expand unlimited.
I wrote ALL of the code ALL by myself starting entirely from scratch.
Right now I'm fixing the * RSS / RDF / Atom feeds*.
These feeds makes it possible to keep up with blogs in a very timesaving
and convenient way.
For windows users 'SharpReader' (http://www.sharpreader.net/) is a very
simple nice and clean Agent (and freeware!).
But also Outlook(tm) seems to do the job nowadays.

My plan is to start in about a week to daily discuss hints on a certain
trick.
I've invited top unicyclists like Irene Genelin, Dana Schneider,
Christian Hoverath, Dustin Kelm,
'Teresa & Sem' (http://semcycle.com) Abrahams, and 'Kris Holm'
(http://www.krisholm.com/) to
join a kind of panel that will make drafts which will be released for
discussion and finally posted.
And off course to write on the blog as well.

Everyone who goes to NAUCC or UNICON please have a look at all 3/3 steps
of my standard validator.

Please note it's all beta. And although I may have a separate
development environment I'll always prefer to code in
the live website. The website validates valid xhtml Strict. When giving
feedback about multimedia problems please make
sure you use the latest versions of players before sending any feedback.
Currently MAC AOL user may experience
some troubles.

Last but not least: we'll need your input! Please submit your movies,
and pictures. When submitting please realize that
the main purpose of the website is educational, and not to show how many
people can ride downstairs.
Also please know there is still a lot of uncutted footage waiting to be
added.
If you want to submit files larger than 2Mb please contact me.

Anyway, enjoy your preview.


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leo wrote:
*Finally I can announce the beta of 'unicyclist.org'
(http://unicyclist.org).
Please read my first post.
*

Yawn


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Well from what I got to see before the site stopped working for me
(basically I read the first post, and watched some great videos) the
site is absolutely fantastic and you should be thanked by lots of people
lots of times for all the work you've obviously put into it...so
thankyou.

On a personal note, seeing some of those level 10 skills made me realise
for some of them that they are actually doable even for someone like me
who hasn't done a great deal of freestyle. On the other hand, seeing
some of the other level 10 skills made me realise how great a rider you
are and how bad I am at freestyle.

Can anyone tell me how many official level 10 riders there are? I do
realise that a lot of people can do all the skills confidently but don't
follow the (American?) skills list, etc, etc.

Congratulations Leo, the site is amazing.

Andrew


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Oh yeah, two more things - one I really like the shadow in the title and
the way the site is set out so simply in general, and two the 'THE
UNICYCLE BLOG' title has just moved into an odd position.

Andrew


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leo wrote:
*Finally I can announce the beta of 'unicyclist.org'
(http://unicyclist.org).
Please read my first post.
*

What's with the personal attack on James Potter in your first post?
That's totally inappropriate.

If your intent is to say that you want the site focused on unicycling
and that you don't want any chatty comments in the blog, then just say
so. If you're reserving the right to delete comments and block users
then just say so. But putting up a sign that says "James Potter and his
ilk are not welcome here" is way out of bounds.


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I found your editorials and comparisons to unicyclist.com kind of
confusing, and I'm not sure why you feel you need to knock down other
people or web services in promotion of yourself and your own. The
conversational aspect of unicyclist.com is attractive and helpful to
many people, and the fact you don't like it doesn't decrease its value
to others.

That said, the video postings you've done are fantastic. I could click
through that stuff for days. I love the "partial stalker" video with
Sem....what a hoot. And specifically, the way you've broken down each
of the Levels into into unique video clips of each skill is a tremendous
resource for those of us that can only aspire to that type of riding.

I like those parts a lot. As for all the other words and editorializing,
I'd paraphrase your motto: less preaching, more riding.


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I like it, that's a really cool site


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-Originally posted on Leo's site-
James_Potter is a perfect example of a kid who is wasting bytes which
were dedicated for unicycling. Since I don't want to sponsor any of
the costs to benefit those kind of people in any way, I gladly will:
[bofh] # echo "ALL: those kid's IP's : deny " /etc/host.allow



Could you please give a few examples of my byte-wasting? Sure, maybe I
make a few useless posts in the J.C. forum, but they're always some type
of conversation which is what that forum is used for.

Other than that, you got a spiffy site there!


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It looks like a cross between the unicyclist.com forum and Andrew
Carters tutorials web site. More like a magazine than a forum or a
dictionary. All valid and useful in their own way.

Ideally I'd like the blog to be more about unicycling in general and
less about specific gigs, juggling, James Potter etc. but that's just my
oppinion.

Anyway. Thanks for making the site. I can tell it has been a lot of work
and I really appreciate it.
I look forward see how it develops.


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James_Potter wrote:
Could you please give a few examples of my byte-wasting?

I could point to 2,5 "less-usefull" post, that were in the same (few)
threads I'm in. During my wade to most of your post in the last two
months I see I made a terrible wrong conclusion since all other posts
were contructive and helpfull.
I need to apologize. I had a total wrong opinion on you. I dropped that
paragraph right out.
-Originally posted by tomblackwood-
feel you need to knock down... ...web services in promotion of
yourself and your own

I'm not the only one who make wrong conlusions. As a matter of fact I
realize that when (on the IUF meet in Beijing) was agreed that Gilby
(fresh in function as maintainer of unicycling.org / RSU ) came up with
the webinterface (on unicyclist.com in stead of unicycling.org) he
definitly saved the group from dead-bleading in it's own succes. As I
allready wrote I consider unicyclist.com as very usefull. And I
appreciate Gilby's (voluntairy and costfull) initiative a lot! *IF* I
feld the need to promote myself I rather would do that at
booking-agencies. If I had spend 1000+ hours on that, I did'nt had time
to create what I've made.

This part made me sad...
-Originally posted by andrew_carter-
how great a rider you are and how bad I am

but -Originally posted by andrew_carter-
I am actually now far more motivated to go out and learn

...that follow-up was great. You got it! That's what I wanted in the
first place.
-Originally posted by tomblackwood-
less preaching, more riding.


amen!

"And on the eight day He allowed the unicycle to be invented. And God
saw that it was good."


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