Apple’s been great about keeping their product offerings simple and straight forward. Historically, the biggest question when deciding on which Apple computer to purchase was: Do I want the power & storage of a desktop or the portability of a laptop? Even today, the prices between a 2.4GHz iMac and a similarly spec’d 2.0GHz Mac …
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First Crack 113. Tim Coyne on How Hollywood Works
I was interested in how Hollywood actors promote themselves, find work, and generally build a career. So, I called up Tim Coyne of The Hollywood Podcast for the break down. We cover auditions, agents, reels, and the side jobs that keep the bills paid. [40 min].
The Roastery and Kopplin’s Offering Coffee Subscriptions
If you’re still looking for something delicious to give the fanatic coffee drinker in your life – I’m super excited to share that both Jeremy Raths, of The Roastery, and Andrew Kopplin, of Kopplin’s Coffee, are offering coffee subscriptions. The Roastery Regulars subscription, is $144, delivers 1 pound of coffee to your door every other …
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First Crack 112. Shef Otis, The Dadiator
Shef Otis talks about moving from actor in LA to dad of 7 kids under 8 (SevenSidekicks.com) in suburban Minneapolis, and his Dadiator Workout program to keep dads as fit as their kids. [51 min].
Adpaper Subscriptions Hold Steady
This morning, staring at the messed up stack of folded broadsheets, I felt bold and broached the subject. “Honey, I’d like to rethink our subscription to the Sunday paper.” After an expectedly tense moment, she replies. “What’s the problem with me perusing a few weekly ads maybe reading the comics. It’s not an extravagant expense.” …
My Rails-based Wiki Engine now in GitHub
I just did the initial commit of the ruby on rails wiki engine I built – here and here for Wiki.Cullect.com – into the collaborative source-code site github. If you’re interested in helping out – or just need a Rails-based Wiki – you can grab it here: http://github.com/garrickvanburen/culwiki/tree/master
Pownce, Exit Here.
While, I wasn’t kind to Pownce a year ago, twice even. There are many unfortunate things about the shuttering of Pownce. Halfway down the list is making the mistaken assumption that the same shuttering couldn’t happen to Twitter (or any other centralized, free, web service). Remember Evan sold Blogger to Google 6 years ago – …
Garrick Last Minute Addition to IDSAmn’s ‘Design Your Career’ Event
This Thursday night, Dec 4th, I’ll be giving a brief talk on using online communities & publications – weblogs, Twitter, etc – to position yourself professionally. Word is, I’ll be on after the panel and before the beer. Wait, that can’t be right. More info here: IDSAmn’s Design Your Career IDSAmn + PDMA Co-Panel Event …
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Long Questions
Jen and I start our 12th year of marriage this week. We’ve been together for 15 years. There’s a good chance – Murphy willing – we’ll see our odometers flip together, that’d make 75 years of marriage. Assuming we get there, we’ve got 2 more entire lifetimes in front of us. A decade ago, my …
Micro-vicious Circles
After 3 years, nearly 1500 updates, exploration from many angles, numerous conversations, and wastebaskets full of crumpled analysis, I’m proud to say, I grok Twitter. Like I’ve never grokked it before1. I also know why Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook, et al, are better* than WordPress, Blogger, MovableType, etc. And it’s completely the blog-engines’ fault. They’re some …