Tonight and tomorrow I will be participating in SoCon. It is my first unconference, please be gentle. I am excited with anticipation of what I might unlearn. Sherry has done a bang up job in unorganizing. It freed out in no time and registration was closed weeks ago. Over 250 people registered for the event […]
Continue reading →The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) fired back at Apple suggesting the company open up its anti-piracy technology to its rivals instead of urging major record labels to strip copying restrictions from music sold online. From the AP: Mitch Bainwol, chairman and chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America, said the move […]
Continue reading →Today Steve Jobs posted his thoughts on music. In this he explores three alternatives for the future of DRM (digital rights management). He concludes by suggesting making music available via download DRM free. Awesome! But what is his motivation? Using myself as a micro consumer example helps explain it a bit beyond Steve’s macro numbers. […]
Continue reading →Following up on the recent post about improving your Web presence, I received a little direct mail piece from Microsoft for adCenter. Seems like they are up to their old tricks of giving product away to win market share. So if you go to the promotion URL and register for five bucks, they will give […]
Continue reading →Tony Antoniades and I recently gave a presentation at an ATDC “Brown Bag” entitled 10 Quick, Cheap, & Easy Ways to Increase Your Web Presence. It was a well-attended event with nearly a third of the companies in the incubator present. A lot of the entrepreneurs told me that they got great value out of […]
Continue reading →I, an advanced Internet user of 12 years has to inbed this link in my blog to "claim" it. Not very a very efficient clean process now is it? Below are the Technorati advacned instructions: Template Editing Instructions If you can (and want to) edit your blog HTML and add a javascript to your blog, […]
Continue reading →Gee Scott, I thought Hugh killed this thing. : ) The meme is five things you may not know about me. Let me give it a whirl. 1. I have no middle name. Mike McQuary actually gave me a middle nick name some time ago. You see there was this guy named Rick Balter that […]
Continue reading →Robert Sanders is moving on to Vitrue. He is a wicked smart technologist that knows how to build rock solid Internet apps. Robert was the first hire that Charles Brewer made at MindSpring. He left there to join Cbeyond as CTO and architected their platform. After he was finished with that I was fortunate enough […]
Continue reading →I just took the Superhero Personality Test. Turns out that I am Iron Man. Who are you? Inventor. Businessman. Genius. Your results: You are Iron Man Iron Man 75% Spider-Man 55% Supergirl 55% Superman 55% Hulk 45% Batman 45% Robin 42% Catwoman 40% The Flash 40% Wonder Woman 35% Green Lantern 35%
Continue reading →That’s what Garry Betty would exclaim to some startled staffer who did not have their facts or figures quite right. And that is the way I feel right now. Garry Betty passed away Tuesday night and it just does not seem right. It does not seem right for someone with such vitality and relentless optimism […]
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