2 years ago when I predicted Apple would drop the optical drive, didn’t expect them to drop everything except the power cord as well. Options for the MacBook Air include: an optical drive (SuperDrive), ethernet adapter, and a modem. Honestly, I can’t remember the last time I used any of those things on my current …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Twitter Updates for 2008-01-14
@misc, I mis-spoke, my problem w/ feed reader is they they’re _just_ readers – having no (or very limited) notion of what I want to do next. # New blog post: Putting the ‘Fish’ in AmigoFish http://tinyurl.com/yp7auq # New blog post: The Podcast is the Ad http://tinyurl.com/28c9hj # @laughingsquid – might I direct your attention …
Twitter Updates for 2008-01-13
@jojeda – textmate (http://macromates.com/ ) is what all the übermac geeks use 🙂 # Powered by Twitter Tools.
The Podcast is the Ad
This is the most straight-forward, up-front reason why independent podcasters have had a difficult time becoming ad-supported. “Most periodical publications, whether they are print, audio or television, are essentially ad delivery mechanisms. Because of this, big media publishers don’t start by coming up with ideas for new magazines, radio or television shows – they start …
Putting the ‘Fish’ in AmigoFish
After 3-years of knowing what a fantastic idea it would be – I finally moved the Mac Mini into the living room and plugged it into the HDTV. While the initial plan was to use it as a DVD player1, it piqued my interested in video podcasts 2. Not knowing where to start, I headed …
Twitter Updates for 2008-01-12
if you’re using @cullect for podcasting you can filter, e.g. http://cullect.com/33/audio.rss or http://cullect.com/33/video.rss # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Twitter Updates for 2008-01-11
@arikjones thanks for the great review of @cullect http://basemint.tumblr.com/post/23419515 # Cullect.com – Read, Write, and Get Out of the Way http://tinyurl.com/2ctbve # Feed Aggregation is Like Water http://tinyurl.com/23oy7u # is looking at Google’s APIs and remembering why I didn’t build support for them in @cullect earlier. # down to inbox 5…until I looked in my …
RE: The debate about the worth of podcasting
I’ve yet to hear of success stories of sustaining a podcast with outside advertising (in contrast to using an internally produced podcast as marketing). It doesn’t surprise me – in fact, it’d surprise me if ad-supported podcasts were repeatable. The economics just don’t make sense to me (but neither do the economics of discount retail). …
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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 …
Cullect.com – Read, Write, and Get Out of the Way
Last night, I pulled the ‘secret knock’ off cullect.com. To me, that means it’s stable and reliable enough to use as a primary feed reader and I know a few people that have left their previous reader. “Cullect is one application that gets out of my way and lets me do what I came do, …
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