Begin Debate Now
The Beatles vs. Stevie Wonder.
I have no pick, there is no first place. Just thinking out loud, who had a better career, who is more top of line to you.... ?
What It Says About Us
Nailed it. Too much information just waving in the wind, waiting to be exploited over and over again. Screaming to be exploited, just for attention.
Tech Titans
The market speak for computer companies during my geek-life:
My First glance: IBM = titans, Microsoft = nerds, Apple = hippies, Atari = artists
My High school: IBM = clumsy old titans, Microsoft = business nerds, Apple = misguided hippies & artists, Atari = dead
My College: IBM = business nerds, Microsoft = titans, Apple = hippies on life support, NeXT = futurists
My 20's: IBM = researchers, Microsoft = clumsy old titans, Apple = colored plastic iMachines hiding futurist code, NeXT = artists, Be = futurists
My 30's: IBM = futurists, Microsoft = business school, Apple = titans & artists, NeXT & Be = long gone
My point? I've seen most of these companies grow, shrink, dominate, follow, and some even disappear. It's been a wild ride watching it, and as Apple sits seemingly at the top of the mountain again (arguably the first time since 1978) I felt the need to show this cyclic nature. You younger geeks out there can get a little context.
Creepy Commerce
OK I've been ranting about this possibility for about three years now, and this is actually the primary reason why I have avoided Facebook: Walmart just bought their way into your Facebook 'timeline' data. Yep, all of your life's most precious (or not) moments, ready to be exploited by corporate america's computers. I bet we are right around the corner from the day where your posting on facebook triggers direct contact from several 'friends' selling you 'personalized' products commemorating your amazing moment that just happened.
Complete digital masturbation circle jerks, coming soon, exploding all over your facebook, suckers!
Art & Commerce
If enough people stop paying for something, it will cease to be made (on a sufficient enough scale to be a product). Sponsored content is paid for in-part by the sponsors, so if you watch your video and listen to your music with commercials inserted, fear not. But if you constantly grab free copies of music, movies, and software that were not meant by their creators to be free, you really need to consider your behavior.
Spring I Beckon You
It's the dreary days of Winter here, where it's either grey and cold or white and colder outside. Every couple of days, for an hour or two, the sun pokes through but it doesn't excite much since everything outside is dead and everything in here is fighting to bother to stay alive.
But I know the power of the sun and I know the persistence of the flowers. So here ya go, something to get excited about in your near future: Only a few more weeks until we can be sitting someplace just like this:
How long until I can be doing this? (Image from BicycleTimesMag)
Watch & Learn
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Satellite Dish Ears
Cool article on Bernie Worrell making a home for himself.
The Wizard
This guy is the greatest, an amazing human and one of the finest musicians ever. A living legend who is an example for us all.
Music Gaming Trying To Get Real
It's about time. The first of a new generation of music games is doing away with the toy guitars and fake notes and going for reality. Yes, someone has built a video game engine using real music notes, progressions, and even instruments. You can literally plug your guitar into your game console through an adapter plug and go at it!
I might actually get this one next time I spend on gaming, especially since I have an human guitar instructor in the house that is very interested in this line of product.
When this things gets released someone post if it's any good, I'm very curious.
Gonna Need 200 Thousand Paper Cups
I love it. My manager Fahqfasse said I wish I could be so lucky to have 200k people show to my birthday bash. The best I can do is get 4 half-naked fake females with similar sounding fake names to friend me on myspace in the course of 2 minutes. Some of them even live in my town! They are new in town too, so I think I have a chance, haha.
BTW -- I am not on Facebook, never have been, and I enjoy the fact that I am starting to miss people's FB-announced-only social events. Obviously I'm not a neophyte (I have probably 20 profiles at every other kind of site currently - literally hundreds of social profiles over the decades I've been online), I just hate Facebook. Hated it from day 1, hate it more now that every moron on the planet is using it to replace all forms of human interaction.
Some readers might know that I have experience programming databases and data warehousing systems, and running reports on such data. If you've been feeding your daily personal information and habits to Facebook or some other services and don't worry about it, I think in the next 2-4 years you will see software developed that makes you wish you could delete all that data. Of course you can't, and you don't 'own' it anymore once it's online.
The real fear isn't that these new systems will come to your house to take you away because of something you've done wrong. Nor is it scary to think that the drugstore and every other retailer wants to track me in order to sell me more items (preferably those with the highest profit margin). My real concern is when these system miscalculate or use a faulty algorithm and you are tagged as something/someone you are not. I wonder if there's any sexual predators named Mark Elliot Zuckerberg in the world?
The Day I Cut The Cord
I hate TV. I watch too much TV. How much? Anything more than an hour a day equals too much. I can get a weeks worth of sitting around done in one lazy night in front of the the TV. I always said If I just wrote/played music or worked on my other projects instead of watching the boob tube then Hello Productivity!
Plus nowadays, I just turn off the TV to end up on Netflix, Hulu, or watching a DVD for another couple hours. So I've finally done something I've wanted to do for years -- yes, today the man is coming to shut OFF my cable. It's called "capping the line" according to my friendly cable company rep, who's voice dropped to a silent defeat when I told him I want to keep my broadband and get rid of the cable package. He must have known from my cheap package and the tone of my voice that I wasn't going to be talked out of it.
I think I've lived with cable about 29 of the past 30 years so it will be an adjustment for sure. I'll have to report back after a few months. But for now, today is the big day, February 2011, goodbye Pawn Stars. Goodbye Top Chef. Goodbye Operacion Repo. Goodbye Sportscenter. Goodbye Daily Show and Colbert. Goodbye Chelsea Lately. Goodbye Tosh.O. Goodbye anything else that I can't find (or won't bother to watch) on the internet.
If I can survive this cold-turkey I'll probably end up with Apple TV and an iPad sharing more media than ever before to every room in my house. But at least it will be things selected by me, and my preferred* 'promotional messages' will be selected by me also.
*yeah right
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