I love the Steep Canyon Rangers. Got a piece of email from them with a free download from their new album "Rare Bird Alert" with Steve Martin.
Wrong Rare Bird Alert? Try http://www.birder.com/birding/alert/
Monday, January 24, 2011
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Blockhead and Eggbuster - Small Ubiquitous Gizmos and Content
1960 console stereo 1970-1990 Component system big knobs 1990s Smaller Bookshelf speakers and so on. Then an iPod.
IBM PC, Compaq Luggable, Laptops, Netbooks, iPads
Deconstruction of publishing. It's a LuLu
Writing, editing, publishing, and delivery of physical or electronic product already happen across a network of individuals and organizations. With publishing on demand or with electronic delivery, writers get closer to readers and disintermediation takes out the monolith. Editors won't "go away".
They'll form a needed guild.
Writers, for that matter, could peer review other writers to drive up the quality. Readers can themselves have a sample of writing and with software like Netflix, the electronic "book" can have recommendations ("You might also like...") based upon your tastes and the tastes of other readers.The iPad and Kindle represent "first pancakes" that are tasty, prove the market and will be improved by the market by Apple, Amazon, and others. Even in these early days, Amazon sold the heck out of Kindles and ebooks this season. Wait till somebody goes Gillette on the "readers", or when the thin screens drop to < $100.
Publishing stalled on console stereo.
Remember Egghead Software Stores? On demand publishing quality keeps getting better, and in five years we'll remember the good old days of that enormous iPad or Kindle and have a few thin "electronic sheets" laying around the house. Xerox PARC looked at "pads" back in the late 80s. Mark Weiser, Scientific American, covered this in 1991. Maybe RedBox adds a printer to their kiosks if you want hard copy.
With the Internet, the inventory can be infinite and benefit from the Long Tail effect. A big publisher will veer away from "Morris Dancing: A Life" but there are enough Morris Dancers to support that kind of niche, and the "book" inventory costs next to nothing. Those shoes though...
Excellent ePub observations from Joe Shuren on DRM etc. and various impediments to Next Big Things.
Thursday, August 05, 2010
Quick note on "80 Essential Blogs for the Modern-Day Marketing Student | Online Colleges"
Ok. 80? Let's say 20 of these are high value, and it's chunked into B2B, General, etc.categories.
Talk amongst yourselves.
Guy Kawasaki #win, but no Seth Godin.... de gustibus.
Been a tad busy driving forward with my friend Tommy Sower's campaign for Congress. The hubris of the failing insurance lobbyist Incumbent is ineffective, but amuses my 83 year old mother. Me? I take the high ground. As Tommy says, "Home is worth fighting for".
But, back to marketing and online social media. Which the Sowers campaign groks most excellently.
Above is an example of asocial media. Christabel chewing on Dumplin on top of Good Dog Red.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
A return to the land, and fresh food, in the backyards of the Delta | Grist
A return to the land, and fresh food, in the backyards of the Delta | Grist
Great simple framework, mostly low tech and high impact.
Meanwhile, in North Carolina, Cabarrus County forms up a Food Council http://www.cabarruscounty.us/News/2010/May/May28_FoodCouncil.html
Lots of good models showing up with solid effect. Let's get through the secondary research before we all go grant crazy for primary research. Google, not grants!
Another addition: http://www.ethicurean.com/2010/06/10/usda-looks-at-local/ For USDA discussion of "what is local food"
Shout out to http://www.localdirt.com/ for excellent newsflow @localdirt
Another addition: http://www.ethicurean.com/2010/06/10/usda-looks-at-local/ For USDA discussion of "what is local food"
Shout out to http://www.localdirt.com/ for excellent newsflow @localdirt
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
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