I just found this video on YouTube.com. Maybe it'll give you an idea of what life is like in "cracker" Colorado... … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2006
The Foolish Wise Ones
BBC Learning: Fragments Of Genius. This is a remarkable show on autistic savants. I've included the link to the BitTorrent file of the show. Here are some of the highlights. Derek Paravicini is completely blind and autistic. Numbers are difficult … [Read more...]
Huge List Of Music Databases
Some of my favorites: Wikipedia Musical Genre: User built info for all genres.Ishkur Electronic Music: Guide to electronic music & sample database.Discogs.com: Record labels, artists and releases.MusicBrainz.org: Music metadata tag … [Read more...]
Dr. Richard S. Wallace holds the key to celebrity…
And he's not giving away his secrets. Drats! Maybe you can get more out of his sexy gatekeeper than I could. Graham: Who is Graham English? ALICE: Some famous celebrity, right? That's a good question. Graham: I wish. Because Graham English is … [Read more...]
Sexy Object Writing Word Generator
Yesterday I posted how to get your creative juices flowing with object writing. Today I found a great site that you can use to randomly generate objects to write about. It's more of a surprise word generator than a random word generator because you … [Read more...]
Get Hip To Your Consumer “Mecosystems”
From Get Down with the People: Today I participated in a meeting with a group of senior marketers from one of the largest global companies in the world. At one point the exec who convened the team asked me point blank, "Steve, what's the most … [Read more...]
Get Your Creative Juices Flowing
Give me 5 minutes and I'll show you how to instantly find unique and interesting details to put into your lyrics. The technique is called Object Writing and it's so ridiculously easy that you'll be pissed you didn't know about it sooner. I learned … [Read more...]
Lenses, Filters And The Long Tail
Yesterday, I was talking about The Long Tail and how there's a lot of opportunity in being a filter to lay-people. I've been getting some really good quality traffic from being a filter over at Squidoo. Last week my songwriting lens was the 3rd most … [Read more...]
Creative Commons Victory
I was talking to my roommate about starting a blog yesterday and the subject of copyright came up. I told him about the Creative Commons license. As a serendipitous example of morphogenetic fields, these posts showed up in my newsreader: A CC First … [Read more...]
Understanding Iraq On The Third Anniversary
As a practice of taking multiple perspectives, I thought it would be a good idea to try to understand the situation in Iraq by reading the opinions of Iraqis. This blog seems like a good place to start. … [Read more...]