Good news everyone. Peter Buck’s Rickenbacker is now back with its owner. The full story I’m sure would be a movie-worthy tale, but all we know is that it’s back with Peter and I’m sure not leaving his hotel room on this tour.
A cool thing is that the audience tonight in Luxembourg printed out paper [...]
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Posted 20 September 2008
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Every so often you have a project that sort of acts as a fitting milestone in your career. For a bunch of us at WBR it was and is Mission Metallica. The highest trafficked, most ambitious site we’ve ever done by far. Almost four hours of video, hundreds of thousands of users and some temperamental [...]
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Posted 12 September 2008
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Experience.
And what Apple is doing is pretty cool too.
I think the future of recorded music packaging is tantamount to the zip, dmg, rar, etc. It’s codes, logins, and most of all experiences.
The concept of a “drop date” is gone.
The concept of “in stores____” is done.
The whole notion of one day to experience what took a [...]
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Posted 01 September 2008
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They usually do one. Lets get predictions:
iTunes 8.0 - very much needed. I can imagine it will fill a different niche “the hub of your information” kind of promise? More than just media?
iPhone 2.1 firmware - obvious, as well …. its on my iPhone right now
New laptops - obvious
More details on Snow Leopard - not [...]
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Posted 22 August 2008
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I periodically will take a dive into our statistics to check out trends I see. This doesn’t happen as often as I’d like, as we have 100+ sites and its time I don’t necessarily have. This week though I did and found something interesting. Typically I take a look at browser stats to find trends [...]
So after my latest bitchy post decrying the ridiculousness of parties such as Mashable’s, etc, as well as the concept of Tech Scenesters and professional conference attendees who actually don’t do anything technical, I’ve decided that I want to do a gathering that is focused on the following:
Intellectual and technological discourse around problems with solutions [...]
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Posted 06 August 2008
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From Crackdown, written in 1996:
“Terrorism terrify tear the truth in two
Seeks to paralyze weaken turn the screws
But only cowards could create the OK bomb
‘Cause no bomb is OK when there can be no calm
And in the heat of crackdown all is silent
While the voice of power over roars condemns the songs of
Innocence and finally it’s [...]
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Posted 26 July 2008
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