Sometimes I wonder why I even bother blogging. I barely have (if any at all) any writing skills whatsoever. I lack the lexicon to describe a particular concept or to expound on a topic.For example, there’s this interesting post in Marketing Profs that I got off Twitter. The post written by Eileen Fogel asks the question whether marketing is just a form of trickery, steering the consumers perception of a product whether or not the product is able to deliver what it promises. Well, what the marketer promises.It took me an accumulated three hours of figuring the right way to present the query. I eventually gave up, realizing I couldn’t put into words my fascination with the topic.Another link that I also gave up on commenting about is Penelope Trunk’s “9 Ways to Think About Linking In a Blog Post.” Here, the Brazen Careerist lists the different reasons why a blogger would put links in a blog post. For me personally, linking is a form of ‘thank you’ to the blogger for writing a post that has me excited or intrigued.I’m attracted to Twitter because of the 140-character limit. You have to be short and concise. To the point. Suits me well. The character limit has a downside.It causes me to Twitter-spam often.It’s probably annoying a lot of my followers. I am trying to cut down on the T-spam. The only release I can think of is blogging. Which, of course, brings us back to the initial conundrum…
Ten Lessons in Innovation from Amazon’s Kindle wasn’t much of an interesting read for me. What caught my attention was comment #3
I’m also not a huge fan of the idea of DRM on books.
Wait. Most pundits agree that DRM may be bad for the music industry yet here comes Amazon and starts adding DRM on books.
I know that Amazon had to figure out a way to protect the authors’ content from being freely distributed but why do I get the feeling that this is going to bite Amazon’s butt later?
I may be wrong.We’ll see.
It’s great to be listening to The-Gang-formerly-known-as-The-Gillmor-Gang again. For those who haven’t heard The Gang before, when you first listen in, you’ll get the impression that what’s going on is just noise.
It’s true that they can be a bit noisy at times (speaking over each other and Jason Calacanis marketing or doing an ad in the middle of a show) but I consider the noise as meaningful noise. Their tendency to be a bit argumentative brings a lot in terms of quality to the conversation.
The Gang is all about conversation. A noisy conversation.
Reckless punditry, as Saul Hansell puts it.
What I like most about The Gang is that it gives me a lot of things to think about.In Episode 2, as things were wrapping up the topic shifted to Google and the Open Handset Alliance.
Two things popped into my mind as I was listening to the podcast:
- Can the development of the Internet be compared to that of the invention of the book?
- How far can I push in trying to compare PCs three decades ago with that of the mobile handset of today?
I’d like to explore these questions further. I’m thinking of just going on a rant, THEN check out with Google has to say.
My iMac’s Dictionary defines “eloquence” as:
Fluent or persuasive speaking or writing
I tried for many moons to become ‘eloquent’. I found out I couldn’t.I would describe the state of my speaking or writing as ‘il-loquence’ which is defined as ‘attempt to being fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing but results to being tiresome and boring to the point of becoming nauseating.’
If you want to know why the music industry is struggling, let me give you Jermaine Dupri, president of Island Urban Records:
We let the consumer have too much of what they want, too soon, and we hurt ourselves.
Let me see if I understand this, Mr. Dupri. What you’re saying is that giving the consumer the power to choose or decide, it’s a bad thing.Bad music is not the only thing destroying the music industry. It’s greed as well. Thanks to MacDailyNews.
Peter Burrows wants to know: where’s the music explosion?
Pundits prophesied the resurrection of the music industry when EMI, Apple and Amazon started offering DRM-free music.
Those on top of soap boxes were bawling their heads out saying that DRM was killing the music industry. The restrictions were like shackles that prevented the music from spreading its wings and soaring to great new heights.
When you set it free, they will come.
And the music was set free.
But the foreshadowed explosion did not happen. The lightning bolt that was the unrestricted, unrestrained, DRM-free digital music did not jolt the near comatose Frankenstein’s monster back to life.
Perhaps it was never all about the DRM.
The only ones who cared deeply about DRM were the pundits and the geeks.
DRM is not the problem.
The ordinary consumer doesn’t give a rat’s ass about DRM.
The problem is the awful cacophony ‘musicians’ are spewing out these days.
This explains why I’m forgetful and stupid lately.
Dr. Timothy J. Walter said getting adequate sleep may improve learning and memory. REM sleep helps in permanently storing the previous day’s experience in memory. Sleep deprivation causes lost opportunities in storing memory by failing to achieve REM sleep.
I should change my lifestyle so that I can get more sleep.
Or I should find a job where I can sleep all the time.
Or just sleep on my job.
