About Ben Taylor:
Hello! I'm the guy behind bogd. I've been making website magic since 1996. That's when my dad got the house wired for The Internet. Thanks, dad.
Over the years, I've built many websites for myself, friends, and companies ("Web 1.0" startups). For several years (1997-2000) I worked on Still Screaming with Lee Kelleher. I was also the Senior Editor for a men's e-zine called The Prime Meridian. I ran a tech blog from 2003-2005 called 56k nerd, which eventually became a podcast called nerdcast (creative name, I know). During that time, I co-hosted episodes of De-Fi Radio with Brian DeWitt, while collaborating with him on a project called socialville, which is now being called socialthing!
After a four year stint in the Air Force (I maintained the ILS and base weather detection systems) I moved back home to Niceville Florida to finish my degree in Graphic Design.
What I'm Reading:
- Opentape
- Woork: Design a stunning Alert Box using MooTools
- Summize Conversational Search
- Pez: Personal Profile Aggregator
- CSS Browser Selector
- ’skine.art.
- Wired's Geekster Handbook, a Field Guide to the Nerd Underground
- Flickr Code
- Soocial • Hassle-free contacts
- OpenID for Google Accounts
- PSDTuts - Photoshop Tutorials and Links - Create Spectacular Concept Art in Photoshop
- Examples of Cinematic Storytelling
- Gmail Tips and Tricks - 35 Cool Gmail Hacks
- Ben's awesome flickr photos.
- Tools for Installing PHP and MySQL On Your Computer - WebStockBox
What I'm Hearing:
- The Cure – Pictures of You (Extended mix)
- Incubus – Made for TV Movie
- Bloc Party – Price of Gasoline
- Sufjan Stevens – The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake
- Sufjan Stevens – The Pick-up
- Sufjan Stevens – Abraham
- Bloc Party – Little Thoughts
- Radiohead – Scatterbrain (As Dead As Leaves)
- Portishead – Elysium
- Portishead – It Could Be Sweet

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