Many thanks to AJ for putting together the first Minnesota PodSafe Music Awards and asking the PodcastMN community to help pull it together. If you haven’t hear my voice in a while…I introduces the nominees and announced a couple of the winners. Listen to the MN PodSafe Music Awards
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Some Post-Pre-Dad Thoughts
Daddy Types is collecting thoughts for Soon-to-Be-Dads. Mine: Everyday, take your family for a walk. And a bonus story: One of our neighbors rang the doorbell one night back when Little C was just a few months old. Jen and I were watching TV and I was giving Little C his early evening bottle. The …
The News Block by Block
“The future of media is to stop boring us with news that doesn’t relate to our lives. I’ll start reading my ‘local’ newspaper again when it covers my block.” – Chris Anderson Chris nails the idea I’ve talked about on this blog (1, 2, 3) and in numerous lunches: the blog-on-every-corner news. St. Anthony Village …
Color Me Stressed
I took the ColorQuiz 3 times this afternoon. Hear the results
Balance in the Air
A couple very recent quotes on balancing your life from two of my favorite bloggers: “5. People have only so much toleration for novelty in them; no one embraces novelty consistently and in all fields of life. Spend your tolerance for novelty wisely.” – Tyler Cowen 23.”Running a startup is full of extreme ups and …
RSS: Rude Screen Scrapers?
“I hate it when RSS scrapers steal my content” – Thord Daniel Hedengren Yes – crediting the source is polite. I make a point of linking back and crediting, and expect the same those of you that find what I write interesting. That said, spammers are inherently rude. They don’t change their ways when asked …
Something’s Burning
My 2 most recent pet peeves: Permalinks that are actually Feedburner redirects. Feed links that are actually Feedburner landing pages Anyone else or just me? LATER: Some elaboration as requested by Jake Parrillo from the Publisher Services Team: Jake, Thanks for the note. To start, I use NetNewsWire as my aggregator. By redirects, I mean …
iTouché-ing
I believe it’s been said many times before; while there are many other tech companies out there – Apple is the only one worth complaining about. If Apple was actually interested in short-term value and a simple, highly-constrained, highly-polished experience, the iPhone wouldn’t do 2/3 of this things it’s purported to (still being vaporware and …
Take 40% Off the Top
“Trees must be cut down, hauled to factories in trucks, and pulped into rolls of paper, which themselves must be transported to other factories, where they are chopped up, covered in ink, folded, stacked, and loaded onto a third set of trucks. These trucks then fan out across the region, dropping bundles at distribution points, …
Feeling Temporarily Secure
I’ve been to handful of airports – the underlying architecture of them all is: open, flowing, permanent. The ironic exception is the airport checkpoints – like pop-up stores in malls. Foldable tables, movable queue markers, equipment on wheels – makes it feel so temporary. Like it just might packed up and gone tomorrow. “The tables …