About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
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.”
The mudding challenge – very cool. I gotta give the Aeillo family props for making 14 attempts through the mud bog. The AOL laptop clue in the middle of the Rocket Center was completely dorky and worthless…well….aside from product placement. Reminded me of the ‘assemble something at IKEA’ challenge they had a couple seasons back. …
With today’s announcement of a Video iPod and the corresponding iTunes bump to v6.0, Apple felled 3 of my least favorite things; record store, cable company, and movie theater. If for $1.99, I can purchase a past episode of Desperate Housewives and for a couple dollars more a feature length film, what’s compelling about a …
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For your listening pleasure, here’s 3 songs with the same “things are about to get much worse” vibe. Apocalypse Now – from The Transplants’ Haunted Cities Banditos – from The Refreshments’ Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy Beijing – from Melissa Ferrick’s The Other Side
Just in time for a mid-production fund drive, St. Paul, MN-based independent filmmaker, Melody Gilbert and I talk about her latest documentary, Urban Explorers into the Darkness and the independent, DIY, MacGyver, hack-your-environment, attitude shared by Urban Explorers, podcasters, and other high-tech geeks. Check out excerpts of film and support Minnesota independent filmmaking by attending …
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This week the Star Tribune launches their much (internally) debated redesign. It’s been previously dissed by City Pages and MNSpeak. This morning, I read the special 8 page pullout outlining the “new features” and the editor’s comments on it. I’m less than impressed and – even with 3 cups of coffee – still un-enthused. Here’s …
Timoth Tulloch, CEO and Roastmaster at Minnesota-based European Roasterie (EuroRoast.com), and I talk coffee technology, from brewing to packaging, and why he’s aggressively moving into the single-serve coffee pod program (declaring the Black & Decker Home Cafe the best pod brewer). We wrap up with the culture of specialty coffee and how independent coffee shops …
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I couldn’t take it anymore. 20 minutes battery charge on my iPod. Half an Evil Genius Chronicles then dead. Not cool. Not cool at all. Tonight I replaced the battery in my iPod. So far, so good. Reboot has been successful. More updates to follow.
There’s a renewed DIY/independence/hacker vibe going around, Dave Slusher says it needs a name. I agree. From my perspective, this vibe is about all of us making effective use of cheap tools – to serve our own individual/custom purposes first, and offering the finished product to others to extend and enhance. I hesitate to use …