Monthly Archives: August 2008

Why I Use the New Odeo

Several months ago I realized that the iTunes on my MBP was no longer updating the podcasts to which I subscribe and, well, I could no longer connect to the iTunes Music store. As a lifelong skeptic of the iTunes product (and a devoutly stubborn consumer of only non-Apple mp3 and portable media players and [...]
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NowPublic Names LA’s 20 Most Influential Individuals

Crowdsourcing news site NowPublic released a list of LA’s ‘Most Public’ and — however arbitrarily — selected many of my favorite people both online and off including #4: Micki Krimmel, #5: Zadi Diaz of Epic Fu, #6: Dave Bullock, #8: Zach Behrens of LAist, #10: Kent Nichols of Ask a Ninja, #15: Sean Bonner of [...]
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David Byrne / Brian Eno Record Releases… to the Web

Do yourself a favor and start listening to Everthing That Happens, Will Happen Today now: Upon first listen, Everything Happens sounds all-around better and more genuine than Byrne and Eno’s first go-around, 1981’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts but then again, we’re all much older, and as genius goes, Byrne/Eno’s is only more [...]
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