A few days ago I posted an article here entitled “Waxing Nostalgic” in which I reminisced about the original three Podcast & New Media Expos held at Ontario, California and how special they were. Upon further examination, it’s suddenly become…
The year was 2005. The month was November. The setting was the Ontario Convention Center in Ontario, California. The event was the first podcast media expo. The phenomenon of podcasting, brought to life by Adam Curry and Dave Winer, was…
The air is electric with heady excitement. The big day has finally arrived. “This one will be nirvana!” you tell yourself. As you enter the doors and walk down the isle, there she is waiting at the altar, all decked…
I remember it well. Back around October of 2004, I first heard the word “podcast” used on The David Lawrence Show via my XM Satellite Radio. It sounded interesting, and I wrote it down on my driver logbook cover with…
The smartphone is a concept and an evolving device that has been around for a few years, though until now mass consumer adoption has been slow. The introduction of the iPhone in June 2007 marked a radical improvement in smartphone…
If you are like me, when you get the *need* for a new geek toy, it seems that’s all you can think about in your spare brain cycles. I’m in that boat now. As I posted before, I’m planning on…
I just saw a cool open source product to freshen up an old mp3 player from Rockbox. It is a firmware product to improve the user experience if your outdated player needs a kick and it is free of course.…