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Open Sourced: The Bird Cage Theater - Self Titled (2007)

August 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Finally, Finally, Finally: Open Sourced:
The Bird Cage Theater - Self Titled (2007)
This album is now available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. What does this mean? Basically, do with it as you please. Download it, upload it, share it with friends, mash it up, remix it, […]

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Why I’m Happy to not be a Community Manager

August 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I am now recovering from one of the more lengthy and painful periods of being more or less unemployed, and am currently working for a great team at a great startup working on great technologies.
Phew.  It was a close one.
However, before I ended up at my current place of employment, I had the opportunity to […]

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Tags: Business · Editorial · Internet Mish-Mash · Marketing · Technology

First Ever Cage Cast - 07/17/08

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Link to Podcast
In this podcast, I rant about Obie Trice, Time Magazine’s feature on Lil Wayne, Texas Congressman John Culberson, AOL Instant Messanger, Processing, and Indie Rock.

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Why Using Seesmic in Video Comments is Kind of Silly

June 11th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Why Using Seesmic in Video Comments is Kind of Silly 

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The Social Revolution Has Limitations Too

June 10th, 2008 · 4 Comments

 
Last night a tweet came through my twitterstream that grabbed my attention.It was sent by Ted Rheingold, the founder of dogster:
“Why doesn’t Apple’s MobileMe have social features?  Apple gets A LOT right, but it’s as if they want to skip the social revolution“
This is definitely a thought-provoking question, and one you could easily imagine coming […]

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Tags: Internet Mish-Mash

McSweeney’s Adds RSS but Still isn’t a Blog

June 9th, 2008 · 6 Comments

I don’t know when it happened, since I hadn’t checked in for almost a year, but McSweeneys’ Internet Tendency finally added RSS feeds for new posts.
It’s great, and a good percentage of what scrolls past me in Snackr is now McSweeney’s-derived.
This is a really great (albeit strangely late) step for McSweeney’s, but their reluctance to […]

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Tags: Criticism · Editorial · Entertainment · Fiction · Humor · Internet Mish-Mash

Apple’s WWDC, Steve Jobs Keynote, and a Whole Bunch of Crazy

June 9th, 2008 · No Comments

You’re not going to find any news breaking on this blog as the keynote unfolds and everybody goes crazy, but what I will say, quickly, as we all sit and wait for the speech is this:
Apple has built a stronger brand than has ever been created before.
Think about it.  We all know what’s going to […]

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Tags: Internet Mish-Mash · Technology

Switchabit Just Pulled The Creepiest Shit That Has Ever Happened

June 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Edit 6/4/08 - Jay from the Switchabit team has again proven to be very helpful and the problems seem at this point to be very creepy indeed, but not Switchabit related.  If Jay’s diagnosis (involving multiple IPs from my router) is correct, then their help has amounted to far more than content distribution hiccups.  Still […]

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Tags: Business · Editorial · Internet Mish-Mash · Technology · api

Gmail Hack: Newsworthy Tweets to SMS to Profit!

May 31st, 2008 · No Comments

This post could also be called “A C-List Blogger Takes on the B-List, One Tweet at a time.”
Step One: Forward tweets to GmailStep Two: Filter for newsworthy headlines like “Microsoft Buys Yahoo”Step Three: Send to phone as SMS with its own ringtone to wake you up if you’re asleepStep Four: ????Step […]

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I do not Recommend the Jamba Juice in Times Square

May 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Testing Twitterfone to Podcast Feed

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