Earlier in the day yesterday, I tweeted that I’d like to hear Obama admit the truth about the state of our Union. While he couldn’t come out and put it the way I did, I noticed that he avoided the traditional opening of the speech, “The state of our Union is strong.” Obama opened with …
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Haiti
I don’t know how you can read/watch/listen to what’s going on in Haiti and not feel awful about it. But at the same time I wonder if anyone else out there rolls their eyes when they’re scrolling through their facebook feed and sees every single person putting that Red Cross text number for $10 in …
China and Google; “The Carter Syndrome”
Good for Google, finally standing up to China, I hope this embarrasses the Chinese government. The Chinese government has been extraordinarily effective at censoring the internet, contradicting many who thought initially that the internet would be the trojan horse through which more liberal ideas circulated through to the people. I don’t care about the justifications …
Evolution of the music industry
Read this essay on the state of the music industry this morning and thought I’d post about it. It speaks to a lot of the issues that are discussed on another blog a friend runs on music where I post a lot. The biggest thing in 2009 for me musically was that I get my …