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By David Burn
Denver Post: In the teeming jungle of the blogosphere, most participants range somewhere between drops of dew and army ants - little noticed, soon to disappear. Josh Spear lounges high on a branch, waving his spotted tail: a leopard. He's the prince of particular, the satrap of selection, the chief of choosing, this 21-year-old occasional University of Colorado undergraduate with a unique passion for the things that …
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By David Burn
James Cherkoff finally got around to reading Kevin Kelly's Wired article, "We Are The Web," from last August, which is more than I can say. His main point is that there are so many tiny, technological developments occuring that it's easy to overlook the resulting social upheaval. Obviously, Kelly puts it a thousand times more eloquently: "The accretion of tiny marvels can numb us to the arrival of the …
By David Burn
Taipei Times: In the late 1960s, Andreas Pavel and his friends gathered regularly at his Sao Paulo house to listen to records, from Bach to Janis Joplin, and talk politics and philosophy. In their flights of fancy, they wondered why it should not be possible to take their music with them wherever they went. Inspired by those discussions, Pavel invented the device known today as the Walkman. But it took more than 25 …
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By David Burn
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They …
By David Burn
I have a saying I'm particularly fond of. "If you're thinking it, someone else is doing it." Over the past few years, my mom and I have discussed a business idea that seems like it may have legs. An evening gown rental business, where we make haute couture affordable for the night. Today, I discovered a firm that's already doing it, albeit for hand bags. Direct marketer, From Bags To Riches, will lend you the bag of …
By David Burn
I saw Walk The Line today, the film about Johnny Cash and June Carter. There was one poignant scene early in the film that I'd like to discuss. After happening upon a session with Elvis at Sun Records in Memphis, Cash came back around and asked Sam Phillips for an audition. At the audition, Cash and his two cohorts--Marshall Grant on bass and Luther Perkins on electric guitar--offered Phillips their best gospel song, …
By David Burn
PSFK points to an innovative new organizer from Mr. Smith Inc., "a provider of consumer products that serve an existing function better or do something wholly new." Here's the whimsical product description from the manufacturer: Compact, splash-proof, and colorful, Jimi™ is the wallet re-born. Jimi™ is a real pocket wallet - as in one that fits in your pocket. Is it a travel wallet? A take-out-at-night wallet? …
By David Burn
Douglas Rushkoff, the brainiac who brought the world "The Merchants of Cool" and "The Persuaders" on PBS' Frontline, has written his first business book, Get Back In The Box, in which he "contextualizes the open source ethos as part of a bigger renaissance: the emergence of an authorship society." This renaissance ethos of authorship isn't limited to some isolated group of “cultural creatives” in New York, San …
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