Hey all. CBS changed the time Amazing Race is on. Now, Tuesday is just Garbage Day. Not Amazing Race & Garbage Day. Anyway a couple things in preparation for tonight’s installment. There’s some other Amazing Race bloggers: flyairdave Scrappy’s Amazing Race 9 (Looks like Amazing Race fantasy sports style. Also looks like Scrappy’s in Mpls.) …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
That Giant Buzzing Sound You Hear is Me-dia Filtering and Aggregating
Fellow local me-dia mogul Chuck Olsen got some nice press in the Sunday Strib this week. A nice write up, and I’m glad Chuck got the press – he deserves it. Afterwards though, I had the distinct feeling that the Strib, in their haste to cover every base, actually missed the interesting bits (that you …
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A Use Case for Identity XML – Demographic Surveys
Stowe Boyd’s running a reader survey. I’ve followed Stowe from Get Real to /Message and thought I’d check out the survey. Standard demographic stuff; age, gender, household income, zip code, employment status, profession, internet usage, etc. Those common questions attempting to build an anonymous picture of people without actually getting involved with them. Reading through …
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I Own It
It’s been a rough week for podcast-network overlords. First, Keith and the Girl dug into the Podshow Contract then Eric Rice responds with a smack down. Then, Graeme and Frosty in It Radio break the news that I’ve been making quietly acquiring podcasts for my own evil podcast network. No, it’s not safe for work …
Five More from SXSW 2006
Modern Swinger by The Pink Spiders If you’ve been following this series (or this blog in general) you’ve probably picked up on my preference for dorky white guys with silly songs. The Pink Spiders also fall into that category. This song specifically reminds me of Caviar’s “She’s Flawed Like a Diamond”. Honey I Been Thinking …
Amazing Race Season 9 – Episode 5
BJ and Tyler are the greatest team, if only because they’re giving tribute – via their t-shirts – to previous Race teams; “Bowling” / “Moms”. Rad. Detour – Foundry or Laundry Uh. Laundry. No Question. “We Choose Not to Yield” Exactly it’s way too early to yield. The teams in the lead are too even …
Retiring Retirement
J Wynia ran some numbers concluding retiring at 65 will probably happen less and less.
Cameras Cameras Everywhere
I grabbed a Gyro and a Lamb Kabob from Holy Land Deli this evening and notice this advertisement for a local surveillance company. The first blob of red text says that the City of Minneapolis requires any grocery, tobacco, or liquor store to have a functioning surveillance system up and running as of January 2006. …
RSS Feeds Replacing CDs – It’s Starting
A while back I pondered RSS feeds replacing Compact Discs as the primary way to receive music from your favorite artists. As I mentioned in that post: “With a podcast, musicians can release whatever they’d like, whenever they’d like; demo tracks, rough tracks, experiments, final edits, interviews, conversations about the song writing process, anything their …
My Heritage Finds Alan Turing in a Tree
This morning, Jen and I were playing with MyHeritage.com‘s facial recognition system. Here you can see the MyHeritage system found Jen’s face and someone lurking in the bushes. Who could it be hiding in the Belgian forest? Perhaps British mathematician, logician, and cryptographer Alan Turing? Maybe, star of television’s Baywatch and Knight Rider, David Hasselhoff …