http://itseemstome.com/ISTM It Seems To Me Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:55:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am an avid fan of podcasts. I listen to many hours a week of interesting and compelling content completely on my own schedule. The TWiT Network produces some of the best, including This Week in Tech, MacBreak Weekly and Roz Rows the Pacific. Leo Laporte is a master behind ... http://itseemstome.com/ISTM/2008/08/14/gorilla-marketing/ The descent into dysfunction is a long, slow process. At no point is there a conscious choice to be dysfunctional. http://itseemstome.com/ISTM/2008/04/02/dysfunction/ MSNBC ran the startling headline this morning: Man arrested near Capitol faces WMD charge. How intriguing! Was a criminal mastermind skulking through the streets of DC with a nuclear bomb in his trunk? <the suspect> tried to manufacture a "weapon of mass destruction, that is, an explosive device capable of causing ... http://itseemstome.com/ISTM/2008/03/26/new-lows-for-doublespeak/ When the news broke today that a crane had fallen in New York City I immediately went to the web in search of video footage. CNN was my first stop. As expected, they had a video clip at the top of the page. The next two minutes were a stunning realization ... http://itseemstome.com/ISTM/2008/03/15/whats-wrong-with-online-video-advertising/ David Byrne has an excellent article on the music business over at Wired. He offers this brilliant insight into music business today: What is called the music business today, however, is not the business of producing music. At some point it became the business of selling CDs in plastic cases, and ... http://itseemstome.com/ISTM/2008/01/12/david-byrne-on-the-music-business/ In a recent episode of The Treatment, Elvis Mitchel interviews artist and director Julian Schnable. Elvis is struck by the idea that all of Julian's movies are about artists whose view of the world is not understood by other people and so they are constantly trying to communicate with the ... http://itseemstome.com/ISTM/2008/01/09/julian-schnabel/ What if there were no more rhetorical questions? http://itseemstome.com/ISTM/2007/11/21/thought-for-the-day/ A few years ago Book of Joe inspired me to open a personal FedEx account. His logic was impeccable and extremely practical. Since then I have shipped numerous packages enabled by the wonderful tools on my account at the FedEx web site. Some of the outstanding features include: Create the order ... http://itseemstome.com/ISTM/2007/11/20/fedex-trumps-ups/ I fell in love with the idea of living in a loft in the early 80's. I was just about to graduate from college and Jennifer Beals was dancing across the screen in Flashdance in a beautiful, industrial-strength loft. It was a beautiful living space — about 2,000 square feet ... http://itseemstome.com/ISTM/2007/10/20/the-demise-of-lofts/ Long term contracts and petty fees are everwhere. When we moved to Princeton last year we signed up for Poland Springs water delivery. (Poland Springs is owned by that bottled water juggernaut, Nestle Waters.) They offered an inflexible monthly service plan of 4 bottles per month for $32.96, which was the ... http://itseemstome.com/ISTM/2007/10/08/contracts-contracts-everywhere/