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Monday, February 7, 2005
Over there 
| | Two posts today in IT Garage: Magnificent Seven and Poised for Hype. A pull quote from the latter: ...it galls my ass to read about how Internet Radio is "poised" to get "hot" again because The Big Boys are back sniffing around. |
Go Tigers!
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Interpodnum
| | Thanks to Dan Bricklin for joining the last edition of the Gillmor Gang (we¹re taking a break and will return in some new incarnation at some point.) |
This is where Steve Gillmor says I Told You So
| | As has been made a bit too abundantly clear, I am no fan of the iPod Shuffle. (No, I don't dislike it, either; I just don't think it's great for podcasts. For me, anyway.) |
| | I've had my iPod shuffle for three days now, and it's become my favorite iPod. Not just because of the size and weightlessness, although that helps, but because of the Autofill feature, which loads up the Shuffle with tunes grabbed at random from your collection. I have about 10,000 songs or so. As you might expect I rarely get around to listening to most of them. I could dump them all in a big iPod (interesting how the standard issue iPod now seems like a MAINFRAME in comparison) and use the shuffle feature, but when you have 10,000 songs you are always compelled to see what's next, whether it's better than this. When you have 100 songs, and A) have no idea what comes next and B) haven't heard 60 of them in a long long time, if ever, you tend to listen. At least I do. It's like a radio station in a world with one frequency whose program director and listener are the same person. I never hit NEXT; for the first time in a long time, I listen. I pay attention. Right now I¹m listening to a Pat Metheny tune I would probably skip, because I've heard it before — but it made me realize how many things I don¹t listen to anymore because I think I know them, when in fact I just recognize them. And some songs I don't know at all. |
One's God, under Nation
Giving adults
| | I listened tonight to a demo CD of Venice Cameron, a singer from Toronto who happens to be the daughter of my hosts here in Seattle. This wasn't one of those "listen to my kid" moments (though technically, I suppose it was). Venice's parents are brilliant folks and serious artists in their own rights, among other things. Anyway, I had no idea. She's almost unbelievably good. I was completely blown away. Her songs are terrific, and her singing is by turns soulful, playful, acrobatic and wise — with an operatic vocal range . And she's just twenty-one or something. |
| | Now two of the parties to that post are blogging. First is Kim Cameron, of IdentityBlog fame. Second is Venice herself, whose full first/middle names are Clara Venice, also the eponymous name of her new blog. |
| | Coincidentally, yesterday was my son Allen's birthday. (Also Babe Ruth's and Ronald Reagans, but I doubt they care.) |
| | Funny how we tend to talk about our kids in the possessive. Our, for example, is a possessive pronoun. We speak of having kids, in the same way we have clothing or furniture. |
| | But kids don't just grow up. They grow out. On their own. They become independent adults. The headline above says "giving," but I'm not sure there's a verb involved at all. |
| | Or where to go with this, because I have an 8-year old to wake up and I'm out of blogging time. |
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