About Michael Richardson

I was raised in rural Idaho - specifically, Council, Idaho. I came to beautiful Portland, Oregon to attend Reed College and graduated with a degree in political science. My thesis, under Paul Gronke, studied voter turnout in local Portland elections. After graduating, I went to work as a technology specialist at Mandate Media, a progressive political consulting company. In April of 2008 I was hired at Vidoop, where I'm a software engineer.

I spend most of my time developing in Python and Django and would love to hear from you.

For my OpenID and hCard, head on over to my myVidoop profile page.

Go By Airship

Go By Airship is a blog written by me, Michael Richardson, a software engineer at Vidoop. Read my bio, or find me on Twitter and Pownce.

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• django-oembed

  This is awesome.

  Check out how it's used:

  {% oembed %} There is this great video at http://www.viddler.com/explore/SYSTM/videos/49/ {% endoembed %}

  Will result in:

  There is this great video at <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="320" height="222" id="viddlerplayer-e5cb3aac"><param name="movie" value="http://www.viddler.com/player/e5cb3aac/" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed src="http://www.viddler.com/player/e5cb3aac/" width="320" height="222" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" name="viddlerplayer-e5cb3aac" ></embed></object>

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• Your own personal airship

  WANT

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• Social networking fit into actual relationships

  This video eloquently and effectively demonstrates my thoughts on online relationships.

  It's also hilarious.

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• Going to Sun's CommunityOne OpenID Workshop

  Sun has offered to host an OpenIDDevCamp at their annual day-long CommunityOne developer conference the day before the start of JavaOne. Not only will you get a chance to talk with OpenID developers you’ll also get to interact with members of other open source communities (such as Drupal and Ruby on Rails). Vidoop’s Michael Richardson is going to be helping lead the efforts with the help of other community members.

  Monday May 5, 2008 - 11am - 8pm Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA

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• Queryset-refactor hits trunk! Woohoo!

  Malcolm Tredinnick just merged the queryset-refactor branch into the Django trunk. I'm really looking forward to the improvements it brings.

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• Video - Discovery Channel's I Love the World ad

  This is such a great ad.

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• Vidoop is going to Web 2.0

  Vidoop - er, I mean, ConfIdent - is going to Web 2.0. This will be the first time I'm going and I'm looking forward to wearing my Vidoop - er, ConfIdent - sweater vest.

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