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Palm, Apple and the language of imagery

July 8th, 2009 5 Comments

Dear Sprint -
Congrats on the launch of the Palm Pre. I was previously a Sprint customer and have used various Palm devices, but I stopped being a customer of both quite some time ago. Maybe the Palm Pre is an amazing device, I dunno. I hope it is.

But when I saw this [...]

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Is This the Future of Web Analytics?

January 11th, 2009 4 Comments

Long ago I mentioned what I called “vertical analytics” and how blogs may be the next analytics frontier. Fast forward to the present, and blog analytics are “been there, done that.” (The product demo I saw in a hotel room at SES never saw the light of day; the originator went on to other things [...]

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Competition and Responsiveness

March 22nd, 2008 3 Comments

When Apple’s Aperture arrived, it was the first tool especially aimed at photographers with extensive photo management needs. While praised for its vision, photographers were frustrated that support for new cameras took such a long time, seemingly requiring updates to Mac OS itself. In the meantime, Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom offered quick support for [...]

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Roaring into the 2000s

November 6th, 2007 1 Comment

Today I bought my first digital-only “CD” online.

I have the iPhone, manage my music with iTunes, and all that. But until today, I never actually purchased any music in digital-only format. Maybe I’m just old-fashioned (or just old), but I like the physical medium. I’m sure the recording industry wishes there were [...]

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Trumpet and Sugar

April 9th, 2007 No Comments

She: did you ever see the music man? it’s funny
Me: i think so
She: they are singing a song about the wells fargo wagon coming to town with the packages
She: basically the ups truck
She: the whole town is singing
Me: what a wonderful time that must have been!
She: the entire town is chasing it
She: all excited over [...]

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Obla-di, Obla-da, Obliterati

April 14th, 2006 1 Comment

What could POSSIBLY make me whip out the ol’ blog software and post something?
New Mission of Burma arrived today. Eight (8) CD singles, from their upcoming Matador album The Obliterati (out May 23, 2006).
Heaven.

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