About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
Long ago, broadcast radio gave up with introducing their audience to new music. I first became aware of it sometime during the summer of 1996 [1] , I’m sure the tipping point occured long before then. Between Cumulus Media president/CEO Lew Dickey, Jr. promoting the talk radio proliferation on the FM dial, my conversation about …
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Inspired by Frank Patrick, I thought I’d track down the first computer I remember programming on – the Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer II. Thanks to Dad for the hardware and Mom for the subscription to the short-lived Enter Magazine. Ironically, it was called the “color computer”, and I only remember it plugged into a 9″ …
It was such a gorgeous day here in Minneapolis, I moved my home office into the backyard. Aside from a curious squirrel it was very peaceful day. This evening, I returned to the backyard and, as Jen and I have done so many evenings this week, turned on the Powerbook’s DVD player. The drive-in’s of …
Though my blogging roots can be traced back October 2000 I started blogging regularly about a 18 months ago because I wanted my Google presence to be more than a handful of stale message board postings. If there’s any single reason to blog, it’s to take control over your online reputation. This goes for businesses, …
If disc jockeys combine pre-record music into a playlist to improve the mood of their audience, can the same be true for weblogs and RSS feeds? The right aggregation of websites into a single feed, with everything you want and nothing you don’t, seems akin to the work of a good DJ. A good weblog …
Continue reading “FeedJ – Is “Feed Jockey” Dorkier than “Blogger”?”
Since Garrick is a fairly uncommon first name, I’m always amused to find those who share it. Especially when they have their own Palace of Stuff (thanks to Jeff @ manicwave). The sponsored link in Google’s results for ‘garrick’ also amuses me:
NetNewsWire, my preferred RSS reader, isn’t particular about the file type within a given podcast. Audio (podcasting), video (videoblogging), images, pdfs (like 101sheets), torrents, or even applications (appcasting?). As you can tell from the appcasting link, Fraser Speirs was the first I knew of using an RSS feed to distribute his excellent iPhoto Flickr plugin. …
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“Football’s a good enough sport, but can you die playing it?” More than a decade ago, while flipping channels, I was first exposed to Northern Exposure. Maggie asked Joel to have dinner with her football-loving father under the pretense Joel was her extreme sports-loving boyfriend. (Not sure I got the above quote right, and google …
I’ve mentioned this before in Job Security is the Ability to Get a Job, there’s a line in the Princess Bride that I think accurately describes the modern day employer-employee relationship: “Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I’ll most likely kill you in the morning.” – Dread Pirate Roberts Today, Seth Godin said the …
Continue reading “Worst We Can Do is Go Bankrupt in the Morning.”