April 2008
19 posts
“For the past 33 years, I’ve looked in the mirror every morning and asked...”
– Steve Jobs Nick S shared Steve Jobs’ commencement speech at Stanford with me yesterday, there is even more there.
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life”
– Steve Jobs via Rob’s Passionless Pre-Professionals post. This was also a recurring theme in 37 Signal’s DHH’s talk at Startup School (see video) today, as he talked about Living as opposed to working 80 hours/week on your startup.
Tempting!
It’s tempting to publish the names and addresses of all the music PR, marketing and management firms who’ve written emails to The Hype Machine that clearly show their lack of understanding of the project, the Internet, different Internet media, blogs and what happens to music on blogs. Given that it is exactly this kind of knowledge that those agencies advertise as their value, I am...
Harvard Business Online's Umair Haque →
If you are not reading this yet, now is the time to start.
Derek Sivers is Blogging!
Derek, the creator of CD Baby has started blogging again (!!!), he’s a living music industry legend of passion and success. Google if you don’t know. Read today: 1. Whatever scares you or excites you, go do it (And also Maslow’s Self Actualization) 2. Never have a limit on your income 3. What’s really keeping you from where you need to be? (It’s not piracy.)
Music / Web in Iceland
Do you know someone working on awesome things with music on the web in Iceland? I am there May 21-25 and would love to meet them. Please put us in touch. (My email is in the blog header)
A Silver Mt Zion moment
Just saw that A Silver Mt Zion has a record on Amazon MP3 / iTunes+ store, that I don’t have: 13 Blues for Thirteen Moon. Not only that, but it’s an album-only purchase priced at $8.99/9.99. The licensing man within says: Badass! Impressive they managed to pull that off! Also turns out they will be playing in NYC while I am in London. That’s a shame, but that means YOU have...
WatchAuthenticity rules the day. Great, concise way to put this, Gary.
Spring Travel Summary
March 7-16: Austin, TX: Fantastic SXSW 2008 March 28-30: Los Angeles, CA: Speaking at Community Next LA April 22-26: San Francisco, CA: Web 2.0 + Friends May 13-21: London, UK/Brighton, UK: Speaking at The Great Escape + Friends May 21-25: Reykjavik, IS
WatchFatboy Slim - Ya Mama. This is old and AWESOME!
“At the start I had one very simple goal: by the end of this project I wanted to...”
– Asia Wong talking about her fantastic 300 love letters project. Go see it.
April Fool's Day Trophy
————— Forwarded message ————— From: —— Date: Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:28 PM Subject: HAH! You got us To: taylor@hypem.com Hey Taylor! Your April Fools Day blog joke showed up in our technorati searches… and yes, we did fall for it. Damn! Good one though, we were just about to give you some blog love when we figured it...
