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, …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
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
First Crack 96. Jeff Williamson on St. Paul’s Flat Earth Brewing
As Jeff Williamson, co-owner of St. Paul’s Flat Earth Brewing Co. awaits kegs to distribute the first batch of Flat Earth Pale Ale, he and I talk about; Getting a microbrewery off the ground How a new child changed his the direction of Flat Earth Flat Earth’s place in Minnesota’s beer scene. Listen to Jeff …
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SXSW 2007 Torrent Out
It’s that time of year again – the time of year when SXSW releases their 3GB torrent files containing 739 mp3s this year’s Showcasing Bands. Yippee! And like past years, I’ll be keeping you up to date on my picks.
KRAFT Wants My Opinion on “Food”?
Listen to me read the actual email I received from a kraft.com domain. I question its authenticity, but then, its from the place that brought us cheese food. UPDATE: I just received confirmation that the message did come from a Kraft “Senior Associate Brand Manager”, and I’m not the only one in PodcastMN land to …
Faceless Borg
(Inspired by YouTube: Microsoft Vista Speech Recognition Tested – Perl Scripting)