About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
A conversation at last night’s PodcastMN meet-up got me thinking about the difference between audio and video. As I see it, the goal of writing is to use the fewest words possible to illustrate the most to the reader. Density. In fact, I’m pretty sure the job of an editor is just that. In the …
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So, Camp Snoopy is leaving Mall of America. I think the Mall has a huge opportunity to develop their own cheesy mascots – like the Olympics does. Problem is, they need a new name as well. Hmmmmm. Here’s an easy fix: Turn the ‘n’ into an ‘h’ and the second ‘o’ into a ‘p’.
As part of my work with Joe Urban, I was invited to the Minnesota Chapter of the Urban Land Institute Young Leaders Group’s panel discussion on attracting and retaining young, creative people in Minnesota. On the panel: Jeff Berg from Olson Molly Culligan from M. Culligan Associates Michael Logan from Target Philippe Vergne from Walker …
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As of tonight, my TiVo can receive Yahoo Weather, Yahoo Traffic, Live365 radio stations, and podcasts. I wasn’t able to successfully load up Minnesota Stories or PodcastMN by hand (text entry by remote not that annoying) right out of the gate. More to come. Update 14 January 2006: First Crack Podcast works on Tivo.
Last year, PodcastMN got it’s start over drinks at the Acadia Cafe. This week, I sat down with Ted Lowell – one of the owners. We talk about: The history of the Acadia Cafe. The decision to be an all original music venue. What it’s like having a Starbucks across the street. Riding the 75-cent …
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There are two semantic phenomena made prominent with the advent of tagging: We use related words to describe a concept wrapped in a point-of-view. If memory serves, in his Ontology is Overrated presentation Clay Shirky uses “film”, “movies”, and “cinema” as an example. Each of these words describes similar, but different things. We use the …
This morning, David Newberger posted 10 Questions with Garrick Van Buren on Blogging. It’s a real good overview of my history with weblogs and where I think their power lay. Thanks David, and nice to be included in a list with great minds like; Dan Gillmor, Robert Scoble, and Doc Searls.
There are a number of indicators to determine if Cooper’s diaper needs a changing: Is he screaming? Does the front of the diaper feel and look full? Are his clothing, blankets, or crib wet? As you can see, all the items in this list are what economists call lagging indicators. In addition, two of them …
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I just updated the PodcastMN aggregator source code. New features include; Config file as a central location for all settings Creates html, rss, opml, m3u, and xspf files RSS file includes some iTunes podcast tags Includes the del.icio.us playtagger baked-in As always, you can see it in action at PodcastMN
Sunday Star Tribune seemed a little heavy for a boring, post-holiday, January weekend. As I culled out the handful of things I actually care about; comics big box electronics ads “signature” – maybe there’s something interesting this week “money + business” – maybe there’s something interesting this week the Satellite radio article in “arts & …