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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for June 27 2015 - Flags of Our Compassion
In this episode, I play a song by John Howie Jr; I talk about wearing parent's clothes; I discuss the Confederate battle flag; I talk about Amazon hatred, and using ship to store online orders with brick and mortar retailers; I talk about "first world problems" and close with a plea for...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 23, 2014 – “The Cloud is Raining on Me”
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, March 23, 2014. In this episode I discuss my problems integrating the various cloud services into my life and work and I cast an appeal for help. Dropbox, Box, Google Docs, Evernote - I live in a cloud based tower of babel....
read articlePublishing 2010: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?
This post is my attempt to distill together many different threads into a common tapestry. There is a lot of turbidity in the publishing, podcasting, music, film, television worlds right now. I have these feeling that every bit of this is all part of a larger whole and I'm going to take a stab at...
read articleMy Take on Amazon Vs Macmillan
I really honestly didn't want to write one more consecutive Kindle related post but current events conspired against me with the current dispute between Amazon and Macmillan. I am seeing a lot of analysis from my compatriots in the science fiction tribe, such as Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, this thread...
read articleKindle Vs Nook: My Experience
Update: Since this post seems to have gotten a lot of traction and still gets hits and comments, I should point out that whether you choose the Kindle or the Nook, my new project Ebooks from TV is great for either! I am blogging this from a Barnes and Noble cafe (specifically, the one at Market...
read articleKindle Software Update 2.3
I've had my Kindle 2 for about eight months at this point. It has easily crossed the point of being able to justify the purchase. I've read a dozen books in their entirety and parts of many more. I use it as my Twitter/web interface when I'm out of the house, and I even in a pinch use it to maintain...
read articleBig Day in the eReader World
I missed it yesterday when Paul Biba at Teleread picked up on my 'Kindle is not closed' post from the weekend, which is gratifying and predictably brought out pushback in the form of comments including this one from Mitch Ratcliffe and a contrary response post from David Rothman. Some people agreed...
read articleThe Kindle is NOT a Closed System
I want to address one of the biggest bits of spurious push back I see on the Amazon Kindle. I see people over and over saying they don't want one because it is a "closed system." This is not the truth and I'll get to that after a little prelude. I've had mine for about seven months now...
read articleFree Mojo Nixon MP3s at Amazon
I have no idea how long this deal will last but the last one like this I linked to was about 2 hours from when I posted it. I'd recommend jumping on this sooner rather than later. Right now, all Mojo Nixon albums are available for free from the Amazon.com MP3 store. I downloaded them all last...
read articleFree Amazon MP3s
A while back, I made my first ever purchase from the Amazon DRM Free MP3 store, Brian Eno's Here Come the Warm Jets. I liked the experience and thought it was pretty cool. Now via Ruby comes this link to a bunch of free MP3s. I just spent a bunch of time going through all 67 pages (?!?!) of those...
read articleEno and DRM Free MP3s
I can hit the quinella and make a new post that ties together two recents posts about music I love and DRM protected music. I realized that Brian Eno's Here Come the Warm Jets is probably the album I love most that I don't own. Somewhere in a box I believe I have a cassette of it that I recorded...
read articleStatistically Indistinguishable from Perfect
Here's a summary of why the Amazon S3 service went down last week. The title of this post comes from a statement at the end of their goals for their own service level. I really like that turn of a phrase. The takeaway lessons from this are 1) engineering services at this scale is always an adventure...
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