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I just got an email from one of my favorite local bands (local being a relative term), saying that they are playing their last-ever show this Friday night. The email caused me to reflect on how the Internet and its various trappings have affected my life in quite random and certainly positive ways.

I discovered the Fredericksburg, Va. based Folded Under (www.foldedunder.com) through Napster. Sort of. I actually downloaded some of their songs along with dozens of others in one fell swoop from mp3.washingtonpost.com, when I lived in Arlington, VA.

Continue reading "Um, I'm with the band" »

Posted by Chad Capellman at 10:14 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

I love my DVR for many reasons. But, as a former print person who always marveled at what broadcast people could get away with, I think the ability to hold people more accountable for what they say on the air has to be among my favorite aspects of these wonderful machines. With that, I give you the observations of a reader of ESPN.com's Sports Guy column, who is shooting some of the fish in a barrel known as Joe Theismann's comments:

Continue reading "Say it ain't so, Joe" »

Posted by Chad Capellman at 09:52 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

This came into my inbox today. It got me thinking about other uses for it and how media companies might benefit. It also creeped me out a bit.

Get $50 for participating in a research study.

As a valued Progressive Direct customer, we're inviting you to participate in an innovative research study. The purpose of this study is to help us reduce the cost of car insurance. And you’ll earn $50 just for participating.

How it works:

Let us know you'll participate by visiting us online.

We’ll send you a TripSensor –- a matchbook-sized device that easily plugs in near your vehicle’s steering column. Just plug it in, drive as you normally do, and forget about it. In six months, we’ll ask you to unplug the TripSensor and send it back to us, and we'll send you $50. It's that easy.
The data you provide are for research purposes only, and will not, under any circumstances, have an effect on your current or future car insurance rate.

Continue reading "The Big Brother insurance bot" »

Posted by Chad Capellman at 02:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (1)

Together we can stop the scourge of curly quotes and prevent the havoc they inflict on RSS feeds everywhere:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP051901241033.aspx

Posted by Chad Capellman at 02:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

One of the neat things about hanging out with all the cool people that flock to Media Center events is the moments during the breaks. While people are often talking about the latest industry trends and how their businesses could hook up, they are just as often showing off their latest gadgets to one another. Whether it's a Palm Treo 650 Smartphone, a BlackBerry 7100G, or (my personal new favorite) an Olympus WS-200S digital voice recorder the show-and-tell game in some ways resembles car fanatics bouncing the hydrolics and letting the neon glow while the hubcaps spin and the bass makes its own breeze.

After I received a magazine assignment to write about the latest business technology trends, I figured "Who better to ask than the Morph audience?"

So, tell us about your favorite gadget, and why you love it, or what's on your "must have" list and why.

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