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Wow!

August 9, 2006 by Michael Boyle

Wow!

A month with nothing here. I’ve been working like a crazy maniac trying to get things done at the new company I’m working with. Regularly scheduled programming will resume…

Tags: Personal

“Free” Music

July 6, 2006 by Michael Boyle

“Free” Music

has seemingly not been a hit on campus: Free, Legal and Ignored (from the Wall Street Journal). Sampling only works if it’s a product people want.

Tags: DRM, Marketing, Music, Music Industry

Breaking news:

July 5, 2006 by Michael Boyle

Breaking news:

Disgraced Enron founder Lay dead. “Ken Lay, the disgraced founder of Enron Corp. who was convicted in May on charges of fraud and conspiracy, has died… of a heart attack at a family home in Aspen, Col.”

Tags: US Politics

Overheard in a hotel lobby:

June 29, 2006 by Michael Boyle

Overheard in a hotel lobby:

rm -r *. “Here’s what I want you to type. ‘are em’ … yes. The letter ‘r’ and the letter ‘m’, together. Now type a dash. Yes, like a hyphen. OK, and then another ‘r’. Yes rm space hyphen r.” From Jeff Veen.

Tags: Curiosities, Funny

There’s news of a podcasting innovation

June 28, 2006 by Michael Boyle

There’s news of a podcasting innovation

coming from Kevin Smith related to his upcoming movie, Clerks II. Through his official company site readers are led to a New York Times article in which Smith discusses releasing a podcast containing DVD-style commentary track that viewers can take with them to the theater just as they would replay the DVD with commentary in the home environment. It seems so simple that it could almost be a kind of prank he’s playing – but at the same time, I’m sure lots of people would love this kind of thing.

Tags: Film, Podcasting

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