“Turns out CDs melt. So we started shipping USBs” – Ross Mayfield, SocialText Actually, I’m still surprised more music, movies, software, etc, aren’t sold in USB form. A while back, I predicted that Apple would be the first to stop shipping computers with optical drives. That’s yet to happen. I still think it will.
Category Archives: General
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:26:23 PM
In the latest Joyent podcast, Niall Kennedy provides some background on one of the most depressing and creepy songs ever. Actually, I can’t listen to anything off that album any more.
Still Lusing
“I’m thinking that there is something inherently subordinate to the term ‘user’” – Prof Mary Wong. via Doc Searls The term “user” has bugged me since I worked at “HannaHodge: User Experience Architects” 8 years back. A couple Octobers back, in First Crack #2 [mp3], I declared “There are no users”. “‘User’ is a term …
Twitter Tools Test
so this is a test of Alex Kings Twitter Tools: post to tweet.
Monday, March 19, 2007 12:20:48 PM
a test of simultaneous publishing to garrickvanburen.com and twitter.
Saturday, March 17, 2007 11:10:45 PM
Congrats to Mike on passing the Ham Radio license test.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:23:44 PM
I finished the first listen through the 2007 SXSW Showcasing Artist collection. 87 tracks made the cut to round 2. Just slightly better than Sturgeon’s Law. Round 2 is in progress.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 12:41:17 PM
“Garrick’s Army of Independent Bloggers ” – Dave Cecchi Crap. The word is getting out. Still, the cool thing is…some of you don’t even know you’re enlisted. 😉
Friday, March 9, 2007 11:45:24 PM
Tonight, I hacked together the First Crack Conversation Map. Now when you visit your favorite Dunn Brothers, you can listen to a podcast recorded there.
Friday, March 9, 2007 4:53:15 PM
160 songs to go in my SXSW 2007 Unlistened Songs playlist. Should have some picks for you in the next couple of days.