About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
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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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.
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 …
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 …
A couple weeks back, Nina Gordon’s cover of NWA’s Straight Outta Compton got promoted to my ‘Getting Things Done’ smart playlist. I’m a sucker for a good genre-bending cover tune – Ever since Faith No More covered the Commodores’ Easy (still a classic in my book) and the Vandals’ cover of Summer Lovin’. Then there’s …
I picked up the (now defunct) Gentle Readers’ album Hihoney via Dave Slusher’s Evil Genius Chronicles’ Stuff package. I’ve never been one to listen to an album all the way through. On the rare occassions that I have a CD, I rip it into iTunes and wait for the individual tracks to come up on …
There are at least 2 different internets. One with popups, popunders, spasm-inducing Flash banner ads, and the actual, unique information squeezed to the size of an IAB standard microbar. The other, without. Until now, this latter internet was filled with RSS feeds from blogs with real people behind them. Until now. Until Splogs. Back in …
Mark Cuban comments on the iTunes/Disney deal: This is far far better than syndication because it can apply to all shows….And this is far easier and safer than releasing a DVD. No extras. No inventory. No shipping. No Returns. No shelfspace issues. You ship a file to Apple and boom, the sales begin. Read the …
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Josh at Splintered Channels ponders traditional ad spots within the new iTunes-delivered TV programs. The TV I’ve had for the last 10 years has a 30-sec timer button on it. Hit the button, change the channel, and 30 seconds later you’ll automatically return to the previous program. Tivo time-shifted both the program and this ad-skip …
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Today, Erik from thedahlpod podcast, felt like a coworker was purposely ignoring him. When Erik called him on it, the response was: “Oh, sorry, I listened to your podcast on the commute in this morning….I felt like I already talked to you this morning.”