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Re: anne hubert, this is gorgeous “Reading a newspaper, I saw a...

peterberg — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:31:48 -0000

This reminds me of that awesome "Be more" series of PBS commercials that Fallon did a few years ago. One of the commercials featured a composer with writer's block sitting at his piano. He looked out the window and found inspiration from pigeons on telephone wires.

Art/life imitates life/art.

Update: couldn't find the video, but I did find the original press release: http://www.pbs.org/aboutpbs/news/20020726_bemor...

Re: My personal connection with Les Paul

peterberg — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:29:44 -0000

Great story, Andrew. Whatever happened to guitarinfo.com? And do you still play these days?

Re: anne hubert, why is this so funny? i don’t know but can’t stop...

peterberg — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:51:50 -0000

She's one of the best actors ever to be on SNL. I love that woman.

Re: Did Opening Night Twitter Reviews Sink Bruno’s Weekend Box Office?

peterberg — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:50:48 -0000

Nice try at finding an interesting angle, but frankly this is a major stretch. I'll grant you that immediate feedback via social networking might well have spread the news about Bruno faster than in the years before, but to give Twitter so much credit is a bit ridiculous. A combination of all social media (Facebook, Twitter, blogs) might have had an impact, but my money is still on good old fashioned word of mouth as the leading reason for the drop in ticket sales.

Re: The Turning Of Microsoft’s Massive Cargo Vessel

peterberg — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:44:49 -0000

Good post. I was running with some tech people earlier this week and we were talking about almost the same thing. Specifically, how MS really needs to get its act together and start thinking about the future, instead of trying to simply extend the past. I hope for MS's sake that they're working feverishly on moving everything to the cloud, improving their browser & OS, and generally sucking less at executing than they have historically.

They definitely still have potential to continue to be a great company, but sometimes it feels like they're just trying to do themselves in. Your cargo vessel analogy is great. Everything they put out feels slow, heavy, and difficult to redirect. I really hope they see the light before it's too late, because as awesome as Google is and as much as I prefer to use its products over MS, I'd hate to see the rivalry disappear altogether.

Re: Game On: Plurk API Available Tomorrow

peterberg — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:22:56 -0000

I'm still waiting on that API release. Any idea when it might be coming?