Category Archives: Opinion

So, I’ve been out of the blogging swing for a little while, but for a couple of good reasons. This week, it’s been the leadup and last minute scrambling to prep for PDX Pop Now! 2005. The festival starts tomorrow … Continue reading →

Here’s a mystery for you: When I was down in LA earlier this month, I took and uploaded these two pictures to Flickr: We’d gone to see the Rembrandt exhibit at the Getty and my dad had insisted on buying … Continue reading →

<!– I often find it hard to overcome lapses in blogging activity. The pattern goes like this: I realize it’s been a couple of days since I blogged, I start thinking I should really write something, I’ve got all these … Continue reading →

“Why We (Still) Love the Web” First got on the net as a Phish-head -tape-trading: rec.music.phish -got in an argument about earthquakes, went to a gopher site through dial-up to, eventually, answer the question -#why: random discussion group, community -learning … Continue reading →

Why Simplicity Matters (and Why It’s So Difficult to Achieve) Drive to Sea World got in a major car crash -louder and more physical than you expect -happens quickly and slowly -first thought: cmd-z ->digital tools we use change us: … Continue reading →

Podcasting Panel: Eric Rice ericrice.com audioblog.com What I do: Internet talk-based radio from pre-automatic delivery. Gregory Narain sparkcasting.com beercasting.com (hosting a beercast at the after party) What I do: getting people drunk and getting them to talk Matt May StaccatoMusic.org … Continue reading →

Designing for the Sandbox — Peter Merholz peterme@adaptivepath.com photos to web? -Cannon Powershoot S60 -iPhoto -to blog -need hosting -difficult ->flickr -no assumption towards prints -uploadr -Frasier Speers: api ->plugin for iphoto -better than flickr’s own tool -20mb bandwidth limit … Continue reading →

This week, I’m down in LA on vacation visiting family and friends for the Fourth. Coincidentally Sonya is down here simultaneously for a job interview so I volunteered to take her to that and show her around a little. Since … Continue reading →

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Music has a time and a season. I mean, can you listen to Pavement in the winter, Aphex Twin after breakfast, or Sigur Ros during spring break? Still knocking around the subject of my last post (URLs for iTunes), I’ve … Continue reading →