About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
There’s a long history of tech companies developing there own applications because it’s cheaper long-term than licensing, especially for core applications like: email, calendaring, text processing. I’m confident Apple employee use Mail.app, iCal, and iWork in-house and those apps are cheap or free for the rest of use. Same for Sun and StarOffice/NeoOffice. Same for …
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A decade ago, one of the very first places I found that offering free websites gave everyone access to the same images directory. You could upload your own images, but then everyone else could use them as well. Goofy, questionable, but free. I’ve been hosting with Joyent for more than 3 years, purchased 3 different …
“In essence, they are replacing the professional filter – reading The Washington Post, clicking on CNN.com – with a social one.” – Brian Stelter We read through each other anyway. I’ve long read major news outlets through the people I trust and often know personally. Blogs and Twitter are great for that. Sure, I run …
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Bob Garfield’s Chaos Scenario 2.0 presentation on Monday night felt like the opposite of the Blind Men and the Elephant. He’s just one of the many people from different angles, proclaiming that Advertising is dying and it’ll kill media as we know it. “That horrible crashing sound you hear is a gravy train derailing.” – …
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This is the third in the monthly coffee review series at the First Crack Podcast. This month, I’m reviewing Miguel Moreno Leiva – El Filo as roasted by 49th Parallel Roasters. It’s a very subtle and floral cup with powerful aroma off the grind. Andrew described it to me as, “technically good.” I quite agree. …
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On the tail of a Twitter conversation on Wisconsin beers and a renewed interest in homebrewing seemed like a perfect time to write up my favorite beers. My Homebrew Favorites Owd Potters Field Ale Sour Cider – Mach II Sour Cider – Mach I Aloysius Amber Rye – 2011 Top 5 Anytime, Anywhere Beers Rush …
As part of the U of M’s Emerging Digerati Week New Media Showcase, I’ll be demo-ing Cullect.com at the Weissmann Art Museum, 10am Friday, April 4th. That’s just Friday. The entire rest of the week is filled with presentations on technology innovations from throughout the university (traffic management, virtual reality environments, etc).
“not really blogging or podcasting for two weeks can hurt your page rank something fierce” – Kristopher Smith Since I haven’t been writing here much this month, here’s an update for those of you that just read this feed. GarrickVanBuren.com got a facelift this past weekend. Primarily so I could explore all the shared feeds …
Cullect was fast out-growing the Lifetime M Accelerator it started out on last summer, so this weekend I moved it to a bigger, 1GB Accelerator. As I write this, the database is migrating. After that, Cullect will be faster and have room to grow. As part of this, I’ve started a proper blog for Cullect …
Thomas Bohmbach and I discuss DJ Edna, his open source project empowering musicians, and other artists, to take control of the sales and distribution of their creative work online. [33 min].