This morning, I got a ride in the new Ford Mustang. One of the best looking cars on the road today, that isn’t made for tall people….say those above 5’10”
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Bring Back the Important Bits
“My entire field of news and information is flattened by my feed reader. Topic, author, credibility, popularity, context, and relevancy are all stripped.” – Aaron Mentele
May 4th: Too Much Joy’s First Show in 10 Years
True to their word, Too Much Joy never broke up – they just stopped having gigs. Until now. Friday, May 4th The Knitting Factory 74 Leonard Street New York, NY “It’s all ages. TMJ will be playing as a 5-piece, as both Sandy Smallens and William Wittman will be joining the celebration of drummer Tommy …
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Unsocial Networks
The Head Lemur digs into Ning’s terms of service (similar to Flickr’s and YouTube’s, et. al) highlighting the problem: in exchange for free services “members” grant rights to their stuff to promote the “network”. “None of these sites are created for the people. These are, to the last picture, file, and pixel solely created as …
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 10:54:50 AM
Yesterday’s travels dropped me in the middle of the snow storm expected in Mpls tomorrow or Friday. It’s a heavy, steady snowfall. A couple inches so far this morning.
Ratings, Scores, Context and Sneezing
A while back, I watched Never Been Thawed a 90-minute, independent, very comprehensive, mockumentary. There was a lot going on in the movie. Lots of different story lines and highly-developed character relationships. More so than I’ve seen in many a documentary (the non-mocking kind). No, NBT isn’t a Spinal Tap or a Best In Show, …
How To Install MacPorts, Apache2, Rails, MySql, Mongrel, and Subversion on an Intel Mac
Now that I’m just about ready to deploy my first rails app, I thought I’d get the deployment environment set up rock solid on both the production and the development machines (one Mac Mini and one MacBookPro). Like many other tutorials on this same subject, your mileage may vary. In fact I’m writing this now, …
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:34:08 PM
“You don’t create new business models on providing the customer less value. You create new business models by providing them more value. The ‘new business models’ don’t exist, because they’re fundamentally blocked by the concept of DRM. ” – Mike @ Techdirt
The Difference Between Yahoo & Google
From my perspective, sorting out the acquisitions of Yahoo and Google is pretty straight-forward. Yahoo (list of Yahoo acquisitions) has always been about building a directory. ‘Tags’ are just another way to create a directory. From that perspective, purchasing HotJobs (directory of jobs), Flickr (directory of photos), Upcoming (directory of events), del.icio.us (directory of web …
Saturday, February 24, 2007 4:30:02 PM
I’m back at the Starbucks in Wausau, just uploaded the 96th First Crack Podcast and the first MNteractive Podcast Profile