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Monday, June 3, 2002
Parting poke 
From Deep Fun and 3Bruces comes a pointer to Poke the Penguin. Meanwhile, they're calling our disembarkation number. See ya back in Santa Barbara.
Coming to the blogroll:::
From India, ctrl alt esc. Lots of good stuff, whole 'nuther perspective.
Disembarking at the moon
As we pull into Derek K. Miller's gorgeous hometown at dawn (we're passing a pretty lighthouse right now, with mountains out of a beer commercial in the background), he shares a couple of fortuitous links. In the New York Times, Emily Eakin says this in Creative Cities and Their New Elite:
| | ...according to a new theory devised by Richard Florida, a professor of regional economic development at Carnegie Mellon University, towns that have lots of gays and bohemians (by which he means authors, painters, musicians and other "artistically creative people") are likely to thrive...
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| | As he put it during a recent interview in Manhattan, "You cannot get a technologically innovative place unless it's open to weirdness, eccentricity and difference."
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In the Talk Archive of Adam Engst's TidBITS, Dave Scocca writes this:
| | The music industry views the period 1985-1992 as a "golden age" for a simple reason: at that time, many many people were shifting their music collections from LPs/cassettes to CDs. The companies made a serious pile of money by convincing people to re-purchase music that they already owned.
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| | They were spoiled by their ability to get "money for nothing": they sold millions of CDs without lifting a finger to find or negotiate with artists for new material. Since the early 1990s, they have approached most new technologies--MiniDiscs, music DVDs, MP3s--with the primary goal of finding a way to make consumers once again re-purchase their music collections. The goal has been planned obsolescence of music formats, probably on a 10-15 year cycle.
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By the way, it's been great hanging this week with Adam and his family. Terrific people.
[Later...] Just went under the Lion's Gate Bridge. Beautiful.
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