The blogosphere is buzzing with the bad news of the economic downturn. It’s all going down and certainly your site is. Or isn’t it? Via Guy Kawasaki’s Tweet I found this article. It’s a bit of a mixed bag. Most actual publishers that were interviewed reported their income wasn’t really affected. Media watchers however reported [...]
Matthew Herbert is something special. He is a sampler, and he does not re-use any existing samples. He makes his own, wherever that might take him. He is also very politically engaged and wants to change the world through his music. But I’m not sure if any of that matters, because, above all, he is [...]
An important rule for website optimization is to Gzip everything you send over the wire. The practice of compressing web pages, CSS and JavaScript is supported by most modern browsers. This has two advantages: Smaller files will download faster and less bandwidth will be used on the server. On most servers, modules exist that can [...]
Want to watch YouTube on your TV? Want to endlessly zap away? Want to watch everything for free? Once you’re PC or laptop is connected to your TV screen, and thus your TV is connected to the Internet, there really is no limit to the hours you will spend in your couch watching TV.
We’re all lost in some way, but lets not talk about that problem for once. A favorite story device of many books, movies and especially games, is the abandoned world. You’re left alone, in many cases with amnesia, and the only option is to move forward and figure this thing out. Warning: many time-consuming links [...]
This is an atypical post, it’s not on Tuesday nor Friday and it’s not directly media related. But as always, I want to give you lots of stuff think about and thinker with. As announced yesterday, today is Blog Action Day, the day we discus global issues. This year, it’s poverty. Now I must confess, [...]
Turn it around … today. Sometimes many things seem to be out of your control. For instance, you might not be able to fix your car because you don’t know anything about transmissions or fuel injection. Or maybe you missed that promotion because some guy is spreading rumors. The solution? View the problem as an [...]
While you are reading this, I am enjoying a break on a sunny beach, far away from any electronics (except maybe my DS). To give you a little taste, I’ve taken a few random shots of Flickr and morphed them together with one of Deadmau5′ early tracks. Morphing is a visual effect to transition between [...]