Shure does a great job of generating content that talks about what they make happen in the music business. The latest Shure Notes that I get email notification of has a great article on recording a cappella audio. The two biggest brain busters for me – when someone is emulating an instrument, you use the mic setup you’d normally use for that instrument and second, Brian...

I tend to hold on to laptops a lot longer than most people because I have to install a lot of software for everything I need to do at work. Last week my IT guy put a new machine next to mine and when I saw how dim my screen was I knew it was time for a refresh.Even worse, when my last machine died I just pulled the hard drive and put it into an older spare rig that was lying around just to...

Jay has $100 of mine, it’s just a matter of when I can go pick it up. At the beginning of the year I put a line in the sand and said that Newspapers (and the 6pm News) would be gone by 2/26/13. Thanks to the comments of some readers, notably Chip who reminded me that AM Radio has yet to die, and Jay who put up $100 to say that he won’t see a day in his lifetime with no papers, I...

I’ve had this draft in my “stuff to complete” forever. As I was reviewing my drafts I saw this and started to laugh – have you been to Second Life recently? I sure haven’t. Here were the facts that I had picked up, which are probably horribly out of date – hey, what more do you want from a Saturday post? As Vice President of Systems Engineering, Ian Wilkes...

A few pointers today to some things that I’ve been really impressed with:Curt Schilling has moved his blog, if you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to decide what major league team to play for check out his latest posts. Scott Monty talks about using social media at Ford. They’ve also some Ford Video, and I’m going to have to dig deep find a photo of our...

Today I found out that two of our sales guys who both bought Blackberry Storms have both returned them because they hated them. After digging for about 5 seconds I found David Pogue’s latest review also giving it a thumbs down. I feel sorry for RIM, this will probably hurt… Popularity: 1%...

Yesterday I read a post on lead scoring that got me thinking more about how this process progresses. I like Sirius’ approach in defining 3 major scoring criteria, but I would change the order: Demographics – Although I would argue that if the demographics are wrong, they shouldn’t be in the database. Behavior -A critical factor, when a suspect downloads a white paper or a...

As the IT Director of my family we’ve been updating the hardware infrastructure. Over the past couple of years everyone is migrating to Mac. I no longer loose Thanksgiving or Christmas time doing Virus Protection upgrades, and my family members now have a 50/50 or better chance of getting the pictures off their digital cameras (or better yet, even being able to look at them on said...