After reading a theory about how #amazonfail might have happened it is a bit tempting to try and test the theory directly. If the theory is valid and Amazon has not changed their alleged feedback/delisting mechanism then it should be a fairly simple test to run. I think it would be pretty tempting to initially [...]

I’ve been running into a huge number of people who don’t understand what’s going on with HDTV lately, so I figured I needed to put something out for the couple of people who do read my blog. The HD broadcast switch is a funded federal mandate. (see item #3) You do not have to get [...]

One of the things that I like about the Zune is that it has podcast support that is more like how I really use them rather than the way they work with iTunes. It’s not perfect by any stretch (Why can’t I squirt a podcast?) but it’s generally very good. Good enough that I’m looking [...]

According to MPR there is a major opportunity to recycle a lot of old electronics and other household waste this weekend at the Mall of America. I’m going to drop off a bunch of the things that I have listed on the Take My Stuff! Please! page so if you want anything in particular say [...]

A few of the things that I do think are really very good about the new Zune software are both the Podcast and the social/community support. I have been using services like Last.fm, iLike, and a large variety of others for a very long time now and am really happy to see that kind of [...]

Microsoft launched the second version of their Zune hardware yesterday and their software today. For the most part I am really very happy with the progress that the platform has made, but I am also quite disappointed in a couple of choices that I do really consider a big step back. I’ve already commented in [...]

I’ve gone ahead and started the list of stuff that I’m getting rid of. Let me know if you want any of it. No tag for this post.

[Update: I appear to have lost the original post contents because of a really weird problem I'm having with my WordPress installation. I'm going to put in a very similar, though not identical post instead since I can't seem to find a cached version of the original.] I’ve been going through my attic lately and [...]

I finally got around to looking at the new community features on Netflix this morning. There’s some interesting stuff they’re trying to do here that I can’t help but think would work better with a more open model for social graphs. It was only a month or so ago that I found that a couple [...]