A Note About a Train Trestle
Eleven years ago when I was 21 years old and a student at UC San Diego, I was running an R.E.M. fan site (Murmurs.com). Some friends in Athens one day posted that the city had started dismantling the...
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Culture is a Product
A year ago I walked out of the Warner Bros. Records building, put a box in my car and drove home. I left with a collection of memories, but also a sense of unfinished business that I intended to keep...
View ArticleSXSW
I’m off to SXSW on Wednesday and staying until the very last day. God help me. I am on one panel on the 15th of March, Website Demolition Derby. For six years I worked on artist websites at Warners, so...
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LN Labs Fund
There are two ways of looking at how businesses work together. A common one in large companies is akin to a dance. Two big (or one big, one small) companies meet on the dancefloor, do a short dance,...
View ArticleSXSW Post Mortem
SXSW is over. I completed 90% of the 10 day mission I was supposed to undertake in Austin, my last day cut short by a health situation back at home. I have never stayed for music before, nor had I ever...
View ArticleColored Data
I was talking to a former coworker recently about the current work being done in the remains of my department. As it turns out, they are still focused on big data, as I was. But they are not focused...
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The Future of Television
Eli Airplay Mirroring There has been a lot of talk as of late about the future of television. A lot of hype about second screens, the 10 foot vs 18″ view, etc. Cord cutting. Lots of cord cutting. I...
View ArticleTwitter: Please Reconsider the Platform vs. Product Decision
I refer to IETF RFC 821, by the late Jonathan B. Postel. “The objective of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is to transfer mail reliably and efficiently.” And I refer to a post on Twitter’s blog on...
View ArticleAre We Really Still Discussing This? – Or: My Response to David Lowery
Content has evolved into a pejorative word used to represent the minimum possible extraction from what we used to call the “message” in media. Content became the minimum information necessary to create...
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The World Loses Good People
In the last few weeks the world has lost a few good people and a dog. Rest in peace Bill Doss and John Walsh. Bill I only knew through his wife and the town of Athens. And his music. John was a family...
View ArticleSort of moved to ethankaplan.com
As a part of being on svbtle.com, I’ve moved my blogging to ethankaplan.com I may carry on here on other subjects soon.
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