The Gavin Show

I feel like I’m the last one to join the Disqus party. I mean, I’ve seen Disqus-powered comments on many, many friends’ websites, and every time I used the service, I’d say to myself, “Hey, that’s pretty sharp! I should install that on my site!” But did I? No, I didn’t. Well, until today, that is.

I took some time this afternoon to tweak the inner-workings of my site. (That sounded far dirtier than I intended, but no time to go back and correct it now!) My comments are now powered by Disqus, which totally rocks, but that had the unfortunate side-effect of clearing previous comments on the site. Oops! So if you left a comment and it’s missing now, it’s wasn’t because of something you said! It’s my new comments system! I swear!

Along with Disqus came support for Seesmic, so feel free to leave a video comment if you just don’t feel like typing. Feel free to go ahead and take the new system for a spin right now!

Update: It was user error! I forgot to click the “Import” button on the settings page for the Disqus plugin. Everything is working harmoniously now!

Well hello there! Gavin here. You might know me from Charm City Podcast with Gavin and Jake. No? Then maybe you’re following me on Twitter. I’m @charmcitygavin over there. Really? No? Still not ringing a bell? Well then I have no idea how you ended up here, but I’m glad you are!

So it’s November! Well, technically November starts tomorrow, but Halloween has become my traditional last day of having “free time” and “sanity” before launching myself in to National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo if you’re nasty). Nutshell explanation: Every November, thousands of people from all around the world write 50,000-word novels in 30 days, start-to-finish. This will be my sixth year participating. ”Wow, that’s impressive!” you’re probably exclaiming out loud at your computer right now. Yes it is, thank you.

This year, I’m changing things up a bit, and quite frankly, I’m afraid I might be biting off more than I can chew. NaNoWriMo is an emotional and physical roller-coaster to say the least, and it was around the end of November last year that I came up with the idea of documenting the wild ride. It was too late to do anything about it then, so this year I am launching The Gavin Show (this site right here!) and will post a short video every day about my novel-writing experience.

But wait! There’s more!

Why stop there? It’s also National Podcast Post Month (or NaPodPoMo if you’re silly). My friend Rob Blatt asked me if I’d like to participate this year. Because I’m a glutton for punishment or mentally ill (or both), I enthusiastically agreed. Listen to Put it in Your Ears every day for the month of November!

And, on top of that, I’ll still be recording regular episodes of the Charm City Podcast.

So, to recap, in November I will be:

• Writing a 50,000-word novel for NaNoWriMo
• Posting a daily video update about my novel
• Posting a new episode of Put it in Your Ears every day for NaPodPoMo
• Recording regular episodes of Charm City Podcast

The best part? You can watch me become unhinged right here on The Gavin Show. Stay tuned and enjoy!