Notes from Electric Pulp

Deziner Folio has burned through the 8,700 standards-compliant, visually smoking websites featured at CSSMania and posted the top 20 highest rated sites. Turns out Electric Pulp (that’s us!) is on that list.

To help us celebrate, we’re requesting that anyone reading this performs an awesome maneuver of their own choosing at precisely 3pm tomorrow (Thursday.) In addition to showing support for pretty design and standards-happy code, we think it will make the world a better place, if only for a short time.

In an article titled Candor in the Tech World, Guy Kawasaki speaks to the relative ease in starting a web business. Guy’s newest venture, truemors.com is an experiment in crowd-sourcing. The new blog-like, twitter-like, digg-like rumor aggregator is firing up critics and supporters alike.

Guy opens the curtain on the relatively low costs (compared to dot com bubble era) he’s incurred to launch his new startup and goes on to explain his willingness to roll the dice on stupid ideas with the stakes so low. And stupid idea or no, the site is off to a great start by all measures (visits, pageviews, posts, votes, reviews, techcrunches, naysayers, etc.)

If it hasn’t been made clear, our part in the mayhem was in the design / development category. We’ve worked with Guy on a few previous projects and jumped at the opportunity to shake up the internets with his new idea. If you look closely, you’ll notice we hacked up a wordpress install to allow community posts via web, sms, email or phone. Then we added a voting system, layered in some hacker stops, took it to the roof, and shot it full of lightning.

So, if you’re wondering where the title to this post came from, Guy gives a rolling credit to the ep team in the interview. For the non-subscribers among us, our cameo looked a lot like so:

Mr. Kawasaki says he has been working on Truemors for just three months. Because it uses free software, with programming done by a for-hire outfit called Electric Pulp located in the high-tech mecca of South Dakota, the costs are minimal.

Now, I know what you’re thinking (“I wish I had an ep team to give rolling credits to.”) It’s actually pretty easy really. You just contact us – see where it goes from there.

Congrats to Aaron and Jennifer Mentele on the birth of their bouncing (we assume he’d bounce) baby boy.

Kai Greycen Mentele
May 10, 2007, 2:06pm
7lbs 14oz

Jennifer and Kai are both doing well. For more pictures, I’d assume you should keep your eyes on the Mentele Flickr account.

Electric Pulp has signed up to sponsor the Giant Piano in the Washington Pavilion Imagination Studio, and we just got a few photos from Chris Rossing over at the Pavilion showing that our signage is up. We’re going to have to plan a day trip over there and see if we can all work together to pound out a little Piano Concerto No. 3 by Rachmaninoff.

So, why the sponsorship? It’s for the kids, man, the kids. That, and we’re huge fans of the movie “Big”.

Some days you’re surfing around the internets, and you spot your company logo.

“Computer people love computer problems, regardless of how much they may complain about them.”

- pfannenstein

Guy Kawasaki is enlisting help from rumor mongerers.

I need some help from people who are in the flow of interesting and true rumors. They would be folks who can provide “scoops” that begin with a phrase like, “Did you hear that…?”

I wonder what he’s up to. … …