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title: "Throwback Thursday: AgileQuestions 2011"
description: "In 2011 a weekly livestream explored Agile with Garry Berteig. Vokle.com died in 2013 and the videos vanished. The Tumblr posts remain."
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## Blast from the past!
On September 29, 2011, I posted the inaugural episode of my “Agile Questions” livestream. For the next 29 weeks, I would meet with my friend, Garry Berteig, to explore topics relating to Agile practices.
At the time, I lived and worked at a college in northwestern Canada. So, in the four years between 2007 (when I learned of Scrum) and 2011 (when I launched the livestream), I hadn’t met many others who knew of Scrum, OpenAgile, Crystal Clear, DSDM, eXtreme Programming, *etc*. The weekly podcast would be the first I’d learn of the growing community in Ontario — *and the first they’d learn of me!*
## The Bad News
When I moved to Ontario in 2012, Garry and I struggled to keep the show going. And the final nail in the coffin for our podcast came in 2013 when **Vokle.com**, the streaming platform we used, *died*.
### An aside, wearing my CTO hat:
Vokle.com (see the [wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vokle)) launched in 2009 and was supported by investors including Imogen Heap and Tech Coast Angels. It was a remarkable platform and poised to grow in areas where Twitch and Restream now dominate.
*What killed Vokle.com?* We may never know. Its disappearance was never fully explained. It’s as though the founders just walked away. I suspect Vokle’s death knell was rung when Adobe announced the End of Life for [Flash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Player#End_of_life). And let’s remember HTML5 was not well supported yet in 2013. The founders found themselves in a terrible position:
- Considering Flash’s life cycle, had Vokle.com been founded a few years *earlier* they may have had enough revenue and capital to afford a total rebuild of the platform.
- Considering HTML5’s life cycle, had Vokle.com been founded a few years *later* they could have taken full advantage of HTML5 audio/video APIs.
As it happened, Vokle.com didn’t survive and **all my video streams disappeared in 2013**. 🥲
## The Good News
Every episode we recorded on Vokle.com was also embedded in one of my Tumblr feeds: agilequestions.tumblr.com. [Here’s Tumblr’s archive all 29 episodes.](https://agilequestions.tumblr.com/archive) Sadly, the *videos* were not archived, but the *posts* remain.
## Lasting Relationships
Even in 2011, twelve years after Kent Beck’s book (*Extreme Programming Explained*) and sixteen years after Scrum was introduced, it was rare to find others in Canada who knew of these practices.
Through Garry, I knew Mishkin Berteig in Ontario, and Mishkin knew a handful of others. So, whenever possible, I would ask guests to join the show. I was happy to meet (in order of appearance on the show):
- Mike Caspar
- Mark Levison
- Mishkin Berteig
- David Parker
## Note to Self
Someday, perhaps I’ll revisit my notes for each episode and see how my thinking has changed since then.
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