Not much more to say. Things really shouldn’t look different on your end.
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Severe Cold Alert
Monday night, I stopped by the Target cold and flu aisle on the way home from the Emerging Digerati presentation. I’m thankful that cold remedy makers put they symptoms on the box front; body ache, sore throat, fever, headache. Tuesday, all the symptoms were turned up to 11. The few conversations I had, were hastily …
Shure is Quiet in Here: A Review of the E2c-n Sound Isolating Earphones
Noticing I get more work done with headphones on and music drowning out the rest of the world, I picked up a pair of Shure E2c-n Sound Isolating Earphones – thinking I wouldn’t need the music up so loud. I don’t know how I could have handled airplane travel without them. The rest of the …
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First Crack 85. Jeremy Messersmith Talking about the Alcatrez Kid
Here’s my long-awaited conversation with Jeremy Messersmith talking about his new album, the Alcatraz Kid ($13.00 PayPal, City Pages review, Pulse review), and playing a couple of the songs of from it – two of my favorites (Day Job, Snow Day) and one of Jeremy’s (Great Times). Listen to Jeremy Messersmith Talking about the Alcatrez …
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Slow Marketing
“slow marketing is a focus on human, one-on-one connections” – Evelyn Rodriguez The great thing about technologies like RSS, is their low-committment persistence, their bias for – as Evelyn calls it – ‘slow marketing’. For example, take real estate. It’s a big purchase occurring infrequently. Most of the time, I’m not looking for or buying …
Photo of Me at PodcastExpo
(Dave, Victor and myself) (Me, Kris Smith, Rick Klau, Eric Olson, and many others at Dinner) Big thanks go out to; Kris Smith – for letting me hang out with him all weekend and running the best session of the conference. Tim Coyne – for some amazing conversation. Dave Slusher – for dropping zen wisdom …
What’s the Future of Media Networks?
PodcastMN.com pulls 70+ podcasts in to a single page using a single script. Is it a network? I hope not. But it does many of the same functions as a media network (ABC, BBC, NBC, etc); aggregate and present a collection of voices with some common collection of attributes. While other functions – distribution, production, …
FCC’s Current Stance on Internet Censorship
This topic came up in a lunch conversation today, and I wanted to confirm I still accurately understood the FCC’s current position: “That being said, the F.C.C. has no jurisdiction over what content an individual broadcasts over the Internet, assuming it is legal.” Looks like the recently ratified Cybercrime Treaty is the closest to internet …
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The Buzzword Blacklist Part 2
Content – we can be more specific like; copy, pictures, conversations, talks, music, performances, etc). Doc Searls makes a good case to blacklist this word in this Giant Zero talk Monetize – under a hunch that this was a made-up word…it’s not. It means ‘to express in the form of currency’. So, it’s not a …
Don’t Visit the Truckstops
Just got off the phone with my dad who recommended not to visit the TA truckstops in Ontario, California. I’m going to heed his suggestion. Though, I’m not sure where that leaves for dinner.