Listening to Dave Slusher’s interview with Phil Torrone of Make Zine reminded me that no product, software, or website is an end itself. All these things are tools. Tools that build off one another. Tools that need to be integrated to be useful.
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Amazing Race 8 – Episode 8
Thought I’d kick off this post by sharing a more travel-related Amazing Race blog – The Pratical Nomad. Edward always has an interesting take on improving travel – or what the Amazing Race should have done. He goes in-depth. Ok, onto to this week’s installment. On one of our first cross-country road trips, Jen and …
Tuesday’s Triple Play – Let’s Go Shopping
The day after Thanksgiving (or Halloween, or Arbor Day, or St. Patrick’s Day) marks the start of the holiday shopping season. This week’s Tuesday Triple Play is dedicated to the entertainment of retail. High at Home Depot from Minneapolis’ Diesel Jenny IKEA from Jonathan Coulton’s Smoking Monkey Sandbox [real] from Too Much Joy’s Cereal Killers …
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Garrick on KARE 11s Podcasting Segment
If you missed it, here’s the KARE 11 – Podcasting, have opinion will share segment. If you’re wondering about a new First Crack podcast – as you can expect, Cooper threw my recording schedule for a loop. Podcasting to resume after the Thanksgiving holiday. Until then, peruse the archives and send over your suggestions for …
Hunting For a Non-HFCS BBQ Sauce
Today, Jen slow-cooked some pork loin and when it was fall-apart with a fork tender, we drained it, smothered it in BBQ sauce, and ignored it some more. After ignoring it good and long, we forked it onto some sesame-topped buns, threw on a scoop of ‘slaw and called it dinner. Yeah. Tasty goodness. Worth …
The Long Tail of Media Attention
Tonight at 10pm, rumor has it the podcasting segment recorded by Minneapolis NBC affiliate KARE 11 with me and many others within PodcastMN will air. As much as I’m always happy for an opportunity to spread the word on podcasting and PodcastMN. I get much more excited about being picked up by other bloggers and …
Lawyers That Get Niche Publishing and Podcasting
Some of you may remember the 6-part series I did with Parsinen Kaplan Rosberg & Gotlieb P.A. over at the First Crack Podcast. For your convenience, I’ve consolidated all the PKR&G podcast conversations including 2 bonus conversations that didn’t make the original series. This week PKR&G came out with their annual lifestyle magazine, “Perfectly Legal”. …
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eMac Fax Modem Killed My Phone Line
I had to send a couple faxes yesterday. Something I do so infrequently that I just use the OS X’s built-in faxing on these rare occasions. The modem on my Powerbook hasn’t been working right for a while now – neither has the disc drive. I’m getting a real good idea of how much I …
The Business Models of Water
As a follow-up to How to Build a Business from Podcasting I thought I’d share this with you: There’s a case of Ice Mountain bottled water in my kitchen (the extra big case from CostCo). There’s also 2 Brita pitchers in my fridge and 4 Nalgene bottles – of different sizes – in the cupboard. …
Tag It garrickvanburen for My Attention
Erik Haugo has started a for:garrickvanburen tag over at del.icio.us for things he thinks I’ll be interested in. Thanks Erik. If you’re reading this right now, feel free to use that tag for the same purpose. I’m also watching garrickvanburen on Flickr and Technorati. Similarily, if there’s a podcast you think I’d enjoy – you …