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Archive for October, 2006

Thank Marketing For Demographics

Posted in Blogroll, gay on October 25, 2006 | 1 Comment »

Marketing is all about demographics. They group, slice/dice into categories, social groups, gender and determine trends. These are “target segments”. Simplistically it involves age bands (as teenagers don’t purchase denture fixant), social class bands (the rich may want different products than middle/poorer classes and be willing to pay more) and gender (partially [...]

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Apple Defines Social Networking – It’s the Ear-Bud Stupid!

Posted in Apple, Blogroll, Music, Social Networks, iPod/iTunes, microsoft, zune on October 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

The Microsoft Zune™ digital media player and online service will be available to consumers in the U.S. on Nov. 14, 2006.
Microsoft (MSFT) claims to be putting the social back into digital music. Translated: they hope it’s an iPod killer and iTunes replacement for Christmas ‘06. The device retails for $249.99 U.S. and the marketing hype [...]

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Socialization vs. Information

Posted in Blogroll, Social Networks on October 24, 2006 | 4 Comments »

The internet was once just an enormous data library, but it’s migrated to a vast “conversation” in the past 3 years. Transmitting information from one person to another has never been easier. Everyone can participate. If my teenage son is any indicator, young people now communicate more through social networking websites than through email. Instead [...]

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Sacrifice – Peltier

Posted in Blogroll, Music, Robbie Robertson on October 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Groov’n to my iPod this morning I was listening to Robbie Robertson – “Contact from the Underworld Red Boy” (1998), (http://theband.hiof.no/albums/contact_from_the_underworld_of_red_boy.html) and heard a song called Sacrifice. I’ve listened to this song before, but didn’t think much about the lyrics. Today was different in that something in the song caught my attention. The song is [...]

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From the Give me a Break Dept!

Posted in Blogroll, Hawaii on October 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Dateline: August 29, 2005 New Orleans, LA – The costliest ($81.2B) and one of the deadliest (1,836 lost lives) hurricanes (Katrina) in the history of the U.S., hits New Orleans and FEMA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEMA) officials took severe criticism over governments’ lack of reaction to the storm.
Advance ahead a year later and…
Dateline: October 16, 2006 Kailua Kona, [...]

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Digitized Best Buy

Posted in Apple, Blogroll, Music, Technology, iPod/iTunes on October 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Best Buy announced (http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/061005/20061005005675.html?.v=1) plans to launch a digital music store powered by RealNetworks’ Rhapsody (http://www.rhapsody.com) service. The Music Store (http://www.bestbuy.com/digitalmusicstore), which launched yesterday (Oct. 15th), features tight integration with memory card maker SanDisk’s line of Sansa Rhapsody MP3 players (http://tinyurl.com/dz44x). Anyone who purchases the $139 (2GB) or $249 (8GB) Sansa e200 Rhapsody player will [...]

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Apple and a Smile

Posted in Blogroll, iPod/iTunes on October 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

I like to smile. I like iTunes. I like my iPod. I like podcasts. I like download Tuesdays. I like album artwork. I like Texas Hold ‘em. I like Dennis Quaid. I like Steve Earl. I like Saturday Night Live. I like that I can play, watch and/or listen to all of this when I’m [...]

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Modernity and Hipness?

Posted in Blogroll on October 11, 2006 | 1 Comment »

A blog has connotations of hipness and modernity. Everyone is doing it.  This is my attempt at writing a weekly, daily, whenever I get around to it,  set of commentaries on “media” tools, techniques, issues and as an accomplished photographer share learnings on things important to me.
sample html: WordPress.com.

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