Take Blink 182’s drummer, Rancid’s lead, a roadie, a weekend of b-grade end-of-the-world horror flicks, and mix with a case of cheap beer – like Grain Belt non-Premium. I know, I know, that’s almost the same recipe for GWAR. But this time, you end up with Transplants’ Haunted Cities. I picked it up a while …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Mobile China Pilot Study Out From JaredResearch
Jared Braiterman, friend-of-a-friend I met when he was in Minneapolis on another research study, just sent a message on his latest project – Mobile China. “Mobile China examines mobile technology and youth culture in the world’s largest technology market. The pilot study focuses on the role of generational change, gender and nationalism in shaping Chinese …
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Amazing Race 8 – Episode 4
The 7-person PartyBike has got to be the dorkiest thing in the world…it’d be perfect on ElimiDate. But in the real world? Dorky. Between the log sawing and blackjack – what would I do? Log sawing. Cards and me just don’t get along. The closest I normally get to a poker hand is Wil Wheaton’s …
Tuesday’s Triple Play – Suburban Adventures
This week’s triple play goes out to Kris from the Croncast and all his suburban adventures. Shop Vac from Jonathan Coulton What’s He Building from Tom Waits’ Mule Variations Suburban Myth from Less Than Jake’s Borders & Boundaries
First Crack Podcast Podcast.Yahoo.com Staff Pick
The Working Pathways’ produced First Crack Podcast made it into podcasts.yahoo.com‘s staff picks. An excellent 1st birthday present. Thanks to the Yahoo Staff and thanks to Kris from the Croncast for pointing it out.
Garrick Van Buren Interviewed on PodAsia.net
Matthew Holden published a conversation we shared about; iTunes podcast directory vs Podcasts.Yahoo.com BetDirCaster and my WP-iPodCatter WordPress plugin for PodAsia.net October 16.
First Crack 65. First Crack Turns One Through Rich Tatums Ears
Rich Tatum listened to each of the First Crack podcasts in linear sequential order. I thought he’d be the perfect interview for First Crack’s 1st Birthday. I was right. After we do a run down of the best and worst of the First Crack Podcast, we talk about: Podcasting’s bandwidth problem (it isn’t what you …
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Why Bother Blogging TV?
I just read the Entertainment Weekly for Oct 21, 2005. They nailed both why I stopped watching Boston Legal and why 2-people teams in The Amazing Race was better. That, and the Stupid Questions were actually stupid this week.
A Consumer Moratorium
Today, Doc pointed to Tim Jarrett saying (emphasis mine): “As I’ve mentioned before, I want a moratorium on the word consumer—both because it is disrespectful and because it builds bad thinking habits in companies that sell to ‘consumers’”. Smart, clued-in companies can signal they respect people by eradicating the word ‘consumer’ from their vocabulary (and …
Broadcasting From 20 Years Ago
Anyone else catch WCCO 10pm Weather on Friday night? Mike wore a boring brown suit, held a big fat wired microphone in one hand, and a big fat wired graphics remote in the other. It’s like he was doing the weather from 1985. Bizarre. Over at KSTP, everything was discrete and wireless. Phew. I wasn’t …