“Artist choice is the key for new technology having an opportunity to be open for business. And we need to build artist choice here if these new technologies are to have that opportunity.” - Larry Lessig
Blogs are so often used for the “I’m outraged at this company” kinda posts, I thought I’d go out of my way to mention companies doing it right. A couple days ago I professed my love for Uline because of their excellent customer service. Today I thought I’d give a little love to V-Moda.
Shortly after […]
Here’s what happened, as far as I can tell.
Lane Hartwell is a fantastic photographer. She recently went full-time with her photography career.
A few weeks ago, an acapella group called the Richter Scales did a parody of Billy Joel’s song, “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” with new lyrics about the internet. They made a music […]
Personally, I was raised in a backgammon family. But Wikipedia says that millions of people like the chess. And if you’re one of them, you should check out Chesspark. It’s one of the most amazing web-based collaborative gaming environments I’ve seen. It makes me really wish I liked chess. Stupid backgammon upbringing!
It’s difficult to remember now, but there was a time when companies looked at the internet and made a ponderous decision about whether or not they wanted to participate. I remember having a serious debate with a museum in Santa Cruz in 1995 about why they should have a website. They ultimately decided to go […]
I know, I know. You’re sick of the iPhone stuff. But it’s not every day a whole new media platform comes along. So I can’t help but keep thinking about it. Humor me.
So I recently switched from carrying around an iPod and a Sidekick, to one lovely iPhone. Here are my top 10 wishes for […]
Heather and I think of our cellphones more as cameras with phone attachments than phones with camera functions. So when a new one comes along, the first question we ask is, “How’s the camera?”
Today I took my new iPhone to the local dog park to find out. Short answer: About average for a cellphone, with […]
I am enough of a contrarian that even I was a little tired of the iPhone ads, blog posts, and stories choking my media input for the last few weeks. (I swear, if I ever meet that smug bastard from the iPhone How To Videos, I’m gonna kick him in the nuts.) But all that […]
Or: Consumer-Made Media and the Almighty Buck
Jason Calacanis is the P.T. Barnum of the weblog world. Barnum took a hirsute woman and turned her into The Bearded Lady. Calacanis took something as banal as paying writers to write and turned it into An Issue That Must Be Discussed. And I’m glad, because it is.
If […]
The other day I found myself needing to contact a friend. This friend and I, we’re both bleeding edge technology nerds, so it got me thinking about how many ways there are for people like us to contact each other, and what the unspoken rules of etiquette are for each one.
Here were the options, in […]
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