Hello friends, Eric here. I recently inherited the gadget beat here at BlogBurst. It’s a good fit for me — I had an iPhone on Day 2, I have Wiis and Zooms and Cameras, Bluetooth is my buddy, WiFi is my friend. I’ve gone to CES twice. I went to the Gadgetopia that is Japan this summer (with my band!). Heck, I even have (and love) a Kindle.
Ah, but the gadget beat is cruel. I have a perfectly wonderful bicycle - strong enough to hop a curb, light enough to get me all over town. Why oh why should i suddenly be coveting a Mountain Bike made of Bamboo? I have fought and clawed to erase the last decade of questionable fiscal policy from my monthly credit card statement, only to start filling my delicious account with links to USB hollywood film kits and Wii Light sabres? My crock pot works just fine thank you, but this one is so much cooler.
Alas alack, there is nothing for me to do but do my best to not fall in love and continue plugging away through all of the excellent gadget reviews BlogBurst members generate every day. Of course I’m not sure if I can afford to not buy my very own indepenedent power station. I will save so much money!!!
What about you guys — has anyone noticed any great gadgets that I can’t live without?
Hello, Eric again.
Like most people who live in Austin, I dabble a bit in the music. I have bands and guitars and cds and a modest desire to rock. Also, like most people in Austin, I have had to sustain my desire to rock with a constant supply of day jobs. Most of my day jobs have been with start-ups or my own companies, and so I have developed a smidgin of business awareness.
I have been following the two big stories regarding music and the internets - Radiohead’s big breakaway from “the suits” and the RIAA lawyers’ successful prosecution of the lady in Minnesota — with more than casual fancy. I thought I should take this opportunity to highlight a few of our network bloggers weighing in on the subject.
New Music Strategies has a nice little piece regarding some of the label PR that is going around.
The Red Ferret Journal asks Are we witnessing the death throes of the music industry?
The Legal Scoop wonders whether we should revamp the royalty structure more generally.
iPlot says radiohead has become a verb.
The Daily Galaxy says that technology is evolving faster than the law.
Paul Stamatiou is taking bets on how much longer DRM can last.
BlogCritics weighs in with Thoughts About the Business Models of Radiohead, Oasis
Medialoper concludes Change is good. I like change.
Well, OK Blogland. I have finished listening to In Rainbows, and so I am going to close up this post. In closing I would like to take you back to a day, not too long ago, when risk in the music industry was not just some fiscal paradigm, but real genuine risk to life and limb.
Hello, Eric Roach, your incandescent blog recruiter here.
Since I don’t get to post much, I thought I would start by saying a general thank you to all the blogburst members. It is such an honor to work with and on behalf of you all.
If you’re like me, you spend each day reading the internet. I usually print out a hard copy while I am brewing my morning coffee, and then settle down with my badtz-maru clipboard and a freebie hi-liter from some conference or other. Actually I guess it’s more of my firefox clipboard, and my del.icio.us hi-liter, but you get the picture…
Anyways, one of my very favorite aspects of the internet (and the blogs that I sift through each day) is the proclivity of images - images that describe the text, images that set moods, and indeed images that just blow your mind. I love photo posts and cartoon posts and canhazcheeseburger posts.
As I am a human, I immediately categorize and file away for my own memories the effect of those images. Unfortunately, BlogBurst is not human. In order for BlogBurst to help bring these images to the top of a search for content, BlogBurst needs some descriptive text
to help the various widget-y searches and human editors find just the right posts.
Sure, we know there is image searching technology right on the horizon, but for now if you have discovered just the right image that you want to share with the world, please take an extra minute or so to plug in a little written context for the image (or song or video or whatnot). It’ll make it easier to find - not just for us, but for all of searchdom.
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