A freelance engineer simplifying the world of media infrastructures.

What draws you to the internet?

The ability to finish other people’s sentences, en mass. Like right now, I’m wandering around my house, feeding the dog, holding my netbook like it’s a hardback. I get to read a book and write it at the same time.

What do you do for a living?

I setup and troubleshoot media workflows for small production companies and individual artists. My business card says Media Engineer on it.

What does a Media Engineer do exactly?

I am not drawn so much to the design side of media, but toward building media infrastructure that allows people to communicate more quickly and interact with media in more personal ways… I deal more with metadata about media than media itself. And I can recover your files if you accidentally empty the trash.

How did you find Disqus?

I started noticing that many of my favorite blogs were using Disqus: scriptingnews.com and laughingsquid.com are two that stand out in my memory. I had recently begun writing my own blogging software (still in its infancy), and since I was just cutting my teeth on programming web apps, I was having trouble writing my own commenting system. I knew that I wanted trackbacks, spam protection, and conversation that traversed multiple sites: Disqus delivers all that in spades.

Are you currently working on any projects?

Currently I’m working on a bunch of things: a community television station prototype here in Mississippi: fondren.tv and I’m brain trusting with @jeffreytaylor and many others to form the Online Video Arts League to promote the artistic validity of online video. This week, I’ve devoted most of my time to playing around with kaltura.org ’s Community Edition. They’ve got some super sweet software.

What’s your favorite 80’s song?

Either Echo and the Bunnymen’s “My Kingdom” or Nirvana’s “School” — I’m split.

What one feature would you like to see Disqus create?

I’d like to be able to subscribe to an RSS feed for comments on specific posts. But I have a feeling that your API would make this pretty easy to roll on my own.

What’s your favorite feature on Disqus?

I have to say that it’s great not to have to log in to the blogs that I visit to comment… Since I started using Disqus, I’m not nearly as introverted.

To learn more about Andrew visit his twitter, website or his Disqus Profile.

Cheers,