Random Articles

• Mistaking Relevance for Trivia Last night, I had bad dream about attending a live recording of a radio program. From what I can remember, the point of the show was to dismiss highly-personal communications as trivial while a panel of teen girls shared the melodramatic relationship unfolding within their MySpace pages. While “trivia” (or gossip) might not be the most
• Moved Servers This means the heavy lifting of moving garrickvanburen.com to a new server, and the firstcrackpodcast to it’s own domain is complete (finally). If anythings not working as expected, please drop me a line. Thanks. Two things I’ve noticed already: The forums haven’t migrated yet, I thought I’d take this opportunity to try and solve the spam problem
• Tell Me When It’s Over “In my experience, until the feature is done, it’s quite difficult to predict when it will be done…” - Johanna Rothman
• Feed Aggregation is Like Water While catching up on my feeds between diaper changes, I caught the news that NewsGator dropping the price of their client apps to $0. According to the announcement, it’s a ubiquity play. Be everywhere, while focusing revenue-generation efforts on the server side by incorporating (and selling?) “attention” or activity data1. Congrats to them to be able
• Spring ‘08 Refresh  “not really blogging or podcasting for two weeks can hurt your page rank something fierce” - Kristopher Smith Since I haven’t been writing here much this month, here’s an update for those of you that just read this feed. GarrickVanBuren.com got a facelift this past weekend. Primarily so I could explore all the shared feeds Cullect.com generates