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Interviewed by the After Mac
It’s no secret that I am an Apple fanboy now. :-) Juan interviewed me about my switch from Windows to Mac.
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EMI Preps DRM-Free Library
In the ongoing flurry of DRM-related posts, it would appear that EMI is prepping to release a significant portion of it’s library as DRM-free music.
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Finding a Designer is Hard
I announced yesterday that I am planning on selling Technosailor. That in itself is hard, but figuring out the next step in my non-b5media life has proved slightly treachorous. I have Emmense going on over there that I plan to build as I can, and turn it into a WordPress resource/consulting site. It also has…
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SXSW-bound
Registration, airfare and hotel reservations are in for SXSW (Interactive). Can’t wait. Let me know if you’re going to be there.
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'DRM Can be Experimented With', says RIAA Chief
A lot was made over Steve Jobs message to the RIAA Tuesday. The message, which gained widespread publicity in no small part due to the blogosphere, essentially said, “Hey we’re Apple. We built iTunes on FairPlay (Apple’s DRM scheme) because the music industry wanted it so, but we’d really like the music industry to reconsider…
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Why Stale Media Won't Survive
I could probably give a thousand reasons why Old Media, referred to by me as stale media, simply won’t make it in the brave new world of new media. It’s the same argument that Apple’s Steve Jobs tries to make in his spinnish way regarding DRM and the music industry, and the same argument that…
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My Script for Auto WordPress Upgrade
I like posting scripts. I am proud of most of them. I mentioned before that I run WordPress trunk and that every day, the auto upgrade script runs, upgrades this blog and sends me a detailed email regarding the upgrade. Not only does this help me keep track of changes from revision to revision without…
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Selling Technosailor
For a period of two years in my life, back in the late 1990s, I lived in NYC. I loved NYC. I didn’t make much so it was hard to live there, but I loved it. In fact, I still love NYC. In August of 1998, I began thinking that my tme in NYC had…