Fresh off the Sony rootkit fiasco, EMI/Virgin Records has commanded that no one listen to the new Coldplay album – but they won’t tell you that until after you’ve given them money. “This CD can’t be burnt onto a CD or hard disc, nor can it be converted to an MP3” and “This CD may …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
New Years Productivity Tip – Removing On-Screen Distraction
While getting a few things done this holiday season I paid special attention to what was keeping me from staying focused, on-task. To kick this year off right, I’ve made some dramatic changes to my OS X desktop. From the menu bar, I’ve removed applications that change just enough to distract me. Including: clock (replaced …
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TiVo’s Future is in Videoblogs Not in Network Television
We’ve been a TiVo household for about a month now. Excellent service, I’m glad we got it. What we don’t have is a satellite or cable service. As I mentioned on my other blog, this omission is very challenging for TiVo. To me, the most interesting television isn’t on television. It’s the videoblogs or video …
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Blogging – Your Business’ Back Porch
Yesterday, I had a great conversation with Matt and Jon about the benefits blogging for business. Out of it Matt brought up the very attractive ‘blogging as business backporch’ metaphor. I’ll attempt to paraphrase: Let’s say a business is a house, and the website is it’s front door – the formal method of greeting visitors …
Sorry About The Conversation Happening Without Me
On a happy note, this post means the migration to WordPress 2.0 is complete. On an apologetic note, I’d like to apologize to everyone who has left a comment that completely got lost in the overly aggressive spam filter. Scott McGerik, Dave, and anyone asking questions about the plugins – sorry for not responding. I …
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The PowerBook is Back
Phew. After what felt like 7-to-10 days without my laptop, I picked it up from the Roseville Apple Store this afternoon. It was a complete zoo there; line half-way to the door, people packed in the aisles, boxes of iPod Nano cases everywhere. Crazy. Anyway, the PowerBook is all shiny and clean, speakers work, mic …
Sam’s a Genius – National Geographic Lullabies Before Bedtime
A couple weeks after Cooper was born, Sam sent over National Geographic Around the World Lullabies. Of course, it went straight into Cooper’s playlist on the iPod. Tonight Cooper was inconsolable. None of the usual settling down techniques were working and we were scratching our heads with what to do. Attempting to think strategically between …
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My Mom Reads This Blog
Just thought you (those of you that aren’t my mom) should know. I don’t know about my other blogs – so you should be safe commenting there. 😉 Aside from making me think I should stop posting some of the more technical topics, I’m happy for it. Blogging is shorthand – right. Those of you …
The Government is Really in the Attention Business
Hitting shuffle on the ‘unlistened podcast’ playlist this evening I hit Steve Gilmor’s conversation with Doc Searls on Attention back in November and the just published On the Media on the NSA eavesdropping on Americans for the last 4 years. Yes, in fact, I would like to see an AttentionTrust badge at nsa.gov (btw – …
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A Good Scale for Rating An Idea
“That’s not an idea that’ll make you a million dollars tomorrow, that’s an idea that’ll make you a billion dollars some day in the future” – Patrick Kuntz