Monthly Archives: February 2006

Malcolm Gladwell has a blog

Posted on February 25, 2006 by Nick Dynice

Via BoingBoing:

Yes, Malcolm Gladwell has a blog. Hair, 1 foot, 4 inches wide (hehe).
Author of Blink and The Tipping Point is blogging. Here is one of his talks. It is one of the most downloaded talks …

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Audition Marketing for Music

Posted on February 17, 2006 by Nick Dynice

Hearing a buzz around an artist and searching for MP3s on P2P services, having a band ask to be your friend on MySpace, and now a new service called Podbop (see the TechCrunch review here) that aggregates MP3s of …

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Audible.com, Do Something Cool!

Posted on February 13, 2006 by Nick Dynice

Audible.com rolled out a service called Wordcast near the end of last year. This was a service that allowed podcasters to have a verifiable way to count how many people are listening, and then publish the results to any …

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Google Sales Rep Tries to Sell AdSense to John Battelle for BoingBoing

Posted on February 11, 2006 by Nick Dynice

Hilarious!
See John’s vignette here. Daily Searchcast episode here.

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The Home Satellite Radio Killer: Pandora + Squeezebox

Posted on February 10, 2006 by Nick Dynice

Via blogsicle.net via New York Times, automatically personalized playlist music streaming site Pandora.com is now compatible with a hardware streaming device, the Squeezebox.

In my opinion, this makes Sirius and XM home tuners/service obsolete. No need to mount …

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Tom Leykis is Podcasting!

Posted on February 9, 2006 by Nick Dynice

San Francisco radio station 106.9 Free FM is podcasting the Tom Leykis Show! Read more here.

From 91.7 KLSX, LA (seems to be updated more frequently) at http://www.971freefm.com/pages/podcast/117.rss

Update: 2/24/09:
97.1 Free FM is no longer a talk station, no longer …

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New contributor at Socialsoftware.Weblogsinc.com

Posted on February 7, 2006 by Nick Dynice

Marshall Kirkpatrick is now a contributor at http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com. He is posting several times a day to this blog which in the past couple of months was getting aroung 1 new post a week. And he has some …

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Could DRM Hell be Even Worse with Video?

Posted on February 2, 2006 by Nick Dynice

Right now you can pick almost any fairly-known to well-known artist, and it is safe to assume that you can purchase a music file by that artist on any digital download music service such as iTunes, Yahoo Music, Napster, …

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David Heinemeier Hansson from OSCON 2005 on IT Conversations

Posted on February 1, 2006 by Nick Dynice

David touches on three not so obvious reasons Ruby on Rails is great on IT Conversations from OSCON 2005.

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Ruby on Rails Meetup

Posted on February 1, 2006 by Nick Dynice

I went to the Meetup.com Ruby on Rails meetup tonight in Santa Monica. I met Nate, Daren and Alex. Besides RoR we talked about DRM, new marketing, and open source. I hope more people come …

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