While Darren’s post is specific the challenges of high-profile, pro-bike racing, the messed up relationship he describes is evident in so many other industries, the major entertainment publishers come to mind immediately (music, books, etc). While I admittedly don’t know the specifics of the issues within bike racing (Darren’s the expert here, and I could …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Crazed Small World
Just found out the very cool crazedlist.org (persistent Craigslist searching) is run by the same Andrew Payne I’ve been working somewhat indirectly with for about a year now. Proving again: The world actually is pretty small. Every good web developer/designer has a really cool side project.
If Not Traffic and Page Views, What Do We Measure?
Over lunch with a local start up, the conversation moved towards Digg, encouraging ‘Digg’ing, and generally putting more guarantees around getting ‘Dugg’. While it’s great for exposure, it akin to unloading a bus fleet of tourists into your house. Sure, some of them may stick around and have a beer but, is the line to …
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How I’m Getting Things Done – Part 2
It’s been 3 months since my concerted effort to be more organized and productive. Some pretty good progress. Email Inbox: 0 Flagged Emails: 0 Flagged Newreader Items: 0 ‘Clean Out’ directory contains: 12 items Physical Inbox: ignored 43 Folders: ignored As I mentioned in my previous post, every next action is goes into the stack …
Coffee Snobs Move on to Homemade Roasts
I’m finally making my home office more comfortable, so I can spend more focused and productive time without getting distracted by the rest of the house. One of the things that crossed my mind was installing a small batch coffee roaster. Then friend of the show Pete T. points me to the NYTimes article on …
Blog this House
Julio‘s Saturday column was about selling your house by blogging. If you recall, I did a little of that earlier this year. While the blog had no impact on the direct sale of the house (contractor down the street bought it), it had much indirect impact in my thinking about my house and the home …
Cherishing the Unrecorded Moments
As many photos we take of the little guy, none of them capture his laugh. As many times I try to record his laugh, it never captures the joy in his eye. Handing him the phone to talk with Grandma is the surest way to make stop talking. I have a memory of playing with …
Rediscover Your iTunes Library with Tangerine
Like everyone else, my podcast listening (and publishing) has an inverse relationship to how busy I am at work. I’ve cut back to only the gPod – bookending the day – with music in the middle. A couple weeks back, I found Potion Factory’s Tangerine, a great little app that generates iTunes playlist based on …
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Absolute Thanks
Friend of the podcast Sam Buchanan reminded me the First Crack Podcast got a mention in George Colombo‘s Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Podcasting. Screenshot too. In the section on the benefits of using a weblog engine for handling listener comments and such. Thanks again George.
VRooooM
“We’re talking about relieving vendors of the need to do complex guesswork about what customers want…We’re talking about flattening the power relationships between vendors and customers, for the good of both.” – Doc Searls