Vile Lives by The ArmSimple, rock. Just the way I like it. Goodbye Daily Sadness by Cruiserweight Punk, rock, chix. East Side by BenkoHardcore Dork Rock. Hanging Around by Gemma HayesA little country, a pretty voice. One of a million just like her, doesn’t change that I just like her. Broaden a New Sound by …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
We Are All Silos
Another day, another MacLeod (the word I’m using to describe my heavy-handed, Hugh MacLeod-inspired imagery). How many login/password combinations are you (or your browsers) remembering? Aside from the security issues inherent in having multiple keys around the web, each login/pass is another barrier to adoption, integration, usability, and usefulness. Customers are the silo, not publishers …
Back to Basics 2.0
I predict the next internet-enabled application to capture our imagination will have no AJAX, Flash, what-have-you. It will be so minimal, so basic, so straight-forward, it’ll make Google.com’s interface feel complicated. On a related note: “Here’s betting that ‘Web 2.0’ is what we’ll call the next crash.” – Doc Searls
Time to Mothball WishRSS – RSS Feeds Standard for Amazon Wishlists
A while back, I played around with Amazon’s ECommerce Services to spin out RSS feeds for wishlists – the result was the highly flakey and slow WishRSS. Today, Amazon announced RSS feed for wishlists exists by default. Yea! Now I can cross a rebuild of WishRSS off my list of Things To Do. Nice. Gotta …
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Death is My Exit Strategy
Maybe it was: -The rash of Web 2.0 acquisitions (Brightcove + MetaStories, Google + Writely, SixApart + SplashBlog) – The sense that Web 2.0 is becoming a pile of me-too’s copying less than useful applications – The general need for Spring to spring – All of the above Either way, the above MacLeod got stuck …
Bird Flu for the Birds
Perhaps I’d feel differently if Bird Flu was the only Big Bad the Big Media has thrown at us in the past 6 years. But it’s not. Flood. Iraq. Terrorist Attack. Neighbors. Asteriods. First Graders. Blogs. (Maybe I’ll finish finding links later, maybe not.) Call me cynical, but bird flu feels FUDdy. Especially when something …
Degrassi Junior High – Awkward. Funny. Awkwardly Funny.
Jen and I are revisiting our awkward years via Degrassi Junior High (thanks Netflix). Aside from the oddly vague and ambiguous endings, they’re very enjoyable. Especially the public announcements in the school – full of on-subject jokes.
Podcasts Can’t Help, Radio Can, But Often Doesn’t.
This weekend the Upper Midwest got dumped on. My hometown received 19″ of snow in a single day. Jen and I were driving home in it. It was awful. Bad. During the drive, we had no idea if conditions were getting better or worse. Just as Mark Ramsey restates, radio has the power to provide …
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Second 2006 SXSW Band Showcase Bittorrent Out.
In case you missed, 229 more songs have been released in the 2006 SXSW Band Showcase Bittorrent. Just in time too, I’ve only got 331 left from the first batch.
Amazing Race Season 9 – Episode 3
The hippies (BJ & Tyler) are playing better than anyone yet – in any season. They’re playfulness at the beginning of this episode – greeting everyone at the zip line by jumping on their cars – is what this is race is all about. “I was hoping we wouldn’t have to go to Russia.” – …