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There has been a ton of spam coming through the comments of this site (as well as many others that I read)…

Ben Trott posted some information about fighting this new type of spam that is hitting people with weblogs over at the SixLog site. He mentions that in MovableType Pro (no word on an [...]

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I re-read the article I talked about in the entry below that talks about the book, “The Rise of the Creative Class“, and I found a couple quotes that I just had to put down here. These really stood out to me and hit home. I definitely need to read “The Rise of [...]

Interesting article over at Salon.com about the “Creative Class”

It’s not the newest article (it’s from June 2002), but it’s still a pretty good read for anyone who might see “eye to eye” with this segment of the population.

addyourown.com is a very nice site that allows people to submit their favorite restaurants and reviews. The really nice feature is that everything is completely editable (ala Wiki) and you can add to/modify anyone else’s information that they submitted.

Right now, addyourown.com covers New York, Chicago and San Francisco. The site just [...]

The Reflex Tester

This site is addictive… I can’t get less than 0.26 seconds… Anyone do better?

thanks to the good folks at 37signals

While on the topic of iTunes, I just found a new website entitled smartplaylists.com.

The premise of smartplaylists.com is a weblog that offers tips on creating cool “smart playlists”. In case you’re not familiar with “smart playlists”, these are playlists that are auto-updating based on various constraints you pick. This is a very cool [...]

The rumors are official.. iTunes for Windows is coming out next week…

Good news for the Windows folks who have an iPod as well as people like me that need a better mp3 player on their work computer. Winamp and MusicMatch just don’t cut it.

Update: I’m wondering if they will include the sharing functionality [...]

Phish’s Road Manager, Brad Sands, was interviewed by Jason O’Grady from powerpage.org recently.

Brad and the band are huge Mac and iPod fans and Jason got to hear some of the interesting ways that the band uses technology (specifically their iPods to hold a catalog of the band’s music that all the members have).

It’s [...]

I’ve talked in the past on how there’s certain music that when I hear it, I instantly think of a certain geographic location. Along those same lines, I’ve been thinking a lot about how there is certain music that makes me think of different seasons throughout the year. Subcounciously, I’ve always paired certain [...]