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Re: Inspiration v randomness

patwoodward — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:57:51 -0000

anything

Re: Francis Coppola on Movie Making

patwoodward — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:47:45 -0000

Technology has enabled people to do and achieve what Coppola said in that quote.

Everyone can be an artist and participate in a somewhat level playing field due to the fact that technology today is a great enabler.

He must have seen the writing on the wall, and trends, that led him to say this years ago...

Re: The Forgotten Man...and some notes

patwoodward — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:15:17 -0000

Thank Karateka - It's a good one. Glad you enjoyed it too.

Re: Making Something From Nothing

patwoodward — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:12:12 -0000

This post reminds me of a Zappa quote.

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."- Frank Zappa

Re: Tell Me What I Need To Know

patwoodward — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:54:21 -0000

Well, it all comes down to knowing your customers right? If I have a feel
for what most of them tend to like then as a band, you'll have a good idea
on how to approach this.

Clean, concise messages that have links for more info is a good place to
start.

Re: Seven Weeks

patwoodward — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:55:09 -0000

Hi Remabulous - I'm doing it to increase my knowledge of how the world works. Applying this knowledge to life and work and connecting past experiences to it, is really cool. Having experience in the creative and business worlds *and* connecting the two is a fun place to be.

Re: Support a Music Studio for Kids in Hunter’s Point

patwoodward — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:09:10 -0000

Right On! This is a great concept.

Re: The Evolving Nature of Technology Adoption

patwoodward — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:29:11 -0000

Good stuff Fraser. Is there a video of you talk somewhere?

I think finding users / adopters is a matter of knowing who exactly your customers are. If the adopters you are targeting are heavy web users, well these days that is a pretty big, undefined group. Four years ago it wasn't.

Marketing to everyone is difficult. Building stuff that services a particular audience is more efficient and fruitful.

Re: The Evolving Nature of Technology Adoption

patwoodward — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:29:11 -0000

Good stuff Fraser. Is there a video of you talk somewhere?

I think finding users / adopters is a matter of knowing who exactly your customers are. If the adopters you are targeting are heavy web users, well these days that is a pretty big, undefined group. Four years ago it wasn't.

Marketing to everyone is difficult. Building stuff that services a particular audience is more efficient and fruitful.

Re: Indie Music Tech: Big Announcement Coming from Indie Music Tech

patwoodward — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:09:00 -0000

<p>Cool. Interested to hear what its all about!<br />
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Re: Fantasy, Not Real.

patwoodward — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:11:58 -0000

!! Looks great Dan. I like this version mo betta. Is the grey pane next to the red one a 'news' sort of pane?

Re: Fantasy, Not Real.

patwoodward — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:24:25 -0000

Yea man. Its interesting how your mindset of keeping the web clean by not polluting it can flow into the real world. Or is it the other way around? Probably.

I think this is important stuff to talk about. Why? Because some one has too!!!!!!!!!

Otherwise...well....blippo bold.

Re: Use Care in Connecting With an Audience

patwoodward — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:13:09 -0000

Yes, the stream of the doings and happenings of an artist's life can be good
for the audience. Watching and helping artists be creative with how they do
that is what I'm excited about.

Re: Fantasy, Not Real.

patwoodward — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:28:02 -0000

Ah, interesting you researched the airplaydirect company.

Re: What Startups Can Learn From Haruki Murakami

patwoodward — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:14:34 -0000

Cool post Alex. I'm glad to see your observations about Murakami's creative process and the the artistic process as a whole.

Writings by Hemmingway always contain the essential important bits and nothing more. His style is a lesson in stripping away what is not needed.

Re: The Future of Sound Engineering

patwoodward — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:37:18 -0000

Good points.

Re: BlueBlog:

patwoodward — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:42:57 -0000

Indeed - Good stuff Fraser.

Re: Has The Cafe Moved Online?

patwoodward — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:15:56 -0000

i don't know if the cafe is moving online or not but, what I do know is that exclusive nature of a cool cafe, city, neighborhood or any sort of hip hang is being broken down by the communication tools of the web.

Re: Zakaria Quote Of The Day

patwoodward — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:21:20 -0000

Along the lines of Michael's comment, I've thought that the simplicity of Japanese culture mixed with pieces of our Western culture can create interesting things.

However, I do think that there is a very thick layer of complexity underneath what the West views as Japanese minimalism.

Re: BMW's GINA

patwoodward — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:12:48 -0000

I haven't read that. Searching for it. Do you have a link?

Re: A post a day

patwoodward — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:08:01 -0000

This observation is another indication that the ability to *produce* seamless streams of information is more welcomed than the once a day nugget.

How do readers, listeners, and viewers cope with so many seamless streams?

Re: Doriot Quote Of The Day

patwoodward — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:47:31 -0000

Of all the quotes so far, this one jumped off the screen at me.

Re: OK HERE WE GO: An Empire of Their Own...and others

patwoodward — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:40:56 -0000

Same deal with Empire of Their Own. Last 1/4 could have been chopped a bit.

Re: Thinking About Context

patwoodward — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:33:31 -0000

You are right about the popularity of HypeM and when I say AdapitveBlue would have to "do it better" that might only be true if AdaptiveBlue smart links were music specific.

To answer your last question, given today's landscape of music on the web I would be most interested in how much a song has been blogged about. That gives me an idea of how many conversations are happening around this piece of music.

What would that take to make happen? Going to the source. I would see if some of your/our/AB's favorite music bloggers would like to use smartlinks to help build the stat engine. But, how in fact will that happen? Bloggers don't blog with last.fm and amazon links. They just blog with single mp3s. Is it possible to "watch" what songs are being talked about on say 10 music blogs and synch those songs up with their respective albums/artists. That artist data, collected from associated blogs, could then be served up in an artist smartlink pane.

What are your thoughts on this?

Re: Thinking About Context

patwoodward — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:14:55 -0000

That reasoning makes sense. So, where do we go from here if there is an id3 tag issue? + what kind of contextual information would be helpful besides album art or it's popularity across the web?

AllMusic's database of info would be great if it could be tapped. Last.fm's wiki information on artists is also really well done and helpful too. Could that be utilized somehow in a contextual case?