About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
Last year, PodcastMN got it’s start over drinks at the Acadia Cafe. This week, I sat down with Ted Lowell – one of the owners.
We talk about:
Listen to Ted Lowell from the Acadia Cafe on Being An Original Venue [23 min]
There are two semantic phenomena made prominent with the advent of tagging:
Surprisingly, Google, Yahoo, and MSN haven’t yet connected people with their points of view. Dave Winer suggests:
Reminds me of something I wrote about on why Google Adsense doesn’t work.
Whether it’s the words in this blog or other sites I’ve read – I’m implicitly declaring context and point-of-view every time the browser refreshes. Then it goes straight down the memory hole.
(What I’ve looked at before + What I’m looking at now) / What you’re trying to tell me = Targeted ad
Excuse me, could I get a refill on the Attention Kool-aid?
This morning, David Newberger posted 10 Questions with Garrick Van Buren on Blogging.
It’s a real good overview of my history with weblogs and where I think their power lay.
Thanks David, and nice to be included in a list with great minds like; Dan Gillmor, Robert Scoble, and Doc Searls.
There are a number of indicators to determine if Cooper’s diaper needs a changing:
As you can see, all the items in this list are what economists call lagging indicators. In addition, two of them have fairly unpleasant consequences.
Continuing my thoughts that diapers should be made for parents, not kids (i.e. 86 the cartoon characters) – I think diapers should change color based their ‘status’. Yes, exactly like those dorky Generra Hypercolor shirts from the late ’80s.
Then, I can see – at a glance if this is why Cooper’s alarm is going off.
Sure, the entire diaper changing color would be nice. I’d also be up for geo-political trivia, where the answer is displayed upon saturation.
Huggies, Pampers, Anything in R&D along these lines?
UPDATE 26 March 2007
Along the same lines:
“I was surprised at changing time with a message on J’s diaper: “My Last Diaper!” — a message from one of her teachers that we needed to bring in another batch of diapers” – Sara Brumfield via Parenthacks
I just updated the PodcastMN aggregator source code. New features include;
As always, you can see it in action at PodcastMN
Sunday Star Tribune seemed a little heavy for a boring, post-holiday, January weekend. As I culled out the handful of things I actually care about;
I also found:
I don’t know how advertisers pay the Strib and measure its usefulness, but this can’t be helpful. Plus, I didn’t page through any of them. So, doubly un-helpful.
Stern finally moves to satellite radio on Monday and I was reminded in the Neal Justin’s The New Golden Age of Radio.
Problem is….satellite radio is boring (coincidently, Sterns departure makes the FM dial even more boring). Removing the regional limits of the FM dial is something Clear Channel has already been doing for years. I’ve got more than 4 days (down from 6) of unlistened, FCC-free, cost-free, region-free, audio of exactly the things I’m interested in sitting in my iTunes library right now. No need to wait until Monday.
In the age of on-demand video (Netflix & ‘on-demand’), knowledge (Google), news (Google), audio (podcasts). Pushing a format listeners can’t rate, fast-forward, or re-listen seems like a step backwards.
In the end, I predict in the next couple years XM or Sirius will sell their satellites to the other and distribute all their programming over the internet. It has all the benefits of satellite distribution (infinite channels, outside of the FCC’s jurisdiction) with little of the overhead.
Could someone please introduce Howard to a podcast. I have a show to record.
I predict in 2 years, Apple will start shipping computers lacking CD/DVD drives.
Why Apple? They were the first to drop 3.5″ floppy drives, Zip drives, and modems.
So, how will big, heavy software installs (like OS’s) be shipped? I’m thinking USB flash drives or network connections. What else is the .Mac storage and a NetBoot good for?
Maybe they’ll get real crazy and ship an OS X install on all iPods by default.
No, I’ve got nothing more than a hunch on this. A hunch and a more discs than I’ll ever need.
UPDATE, 22 months later:
When Jen asked me to pick up cheese for burgers tonight, it wasn’t on my mind at all.
At some point, I was inspired. Perhaps Scott and Dave‘s quest finally got to me.
Before I knew it, there was two slices of medium cheddar between two quarter pound patties squeezed together and slapped on the grill. Yep. Despite being in NE Minneapolis – we was grilling up Juicy Lucys.
Yeah, tasty. Best way to have meat and cheese and cheese and meat.
Definitely worth an ongoing quest.
