Author: Christopher S Penn

  • Cramer to world: Armageddon

    Jim Cramer’s not known for subtlety, but this was a whopper. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY5nfytTQT8[/youtube]

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  • Podsafe Musicians – Mobilize Your Fan Reviews!

    Podsafe Musicians – Mobilize Your Fan Reviews! Are you a podsafe musician with rabid fans? Getting your fans to review your albums in iTunes is now more important than ever with the release of My iTunes from Apple. My iTunes is an Apple-branded widget that provides one click access to albums and reviews and can…

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  • Define Spaces By Their Uses: LinkedIn, Facebook, and Jeff Pulver

    Jeff Pulver, and by extension, Chris Brogan, have been enjoying some robust commentary on Jeff’s recent BusinessWeek article and post about switching his business social networking to Facebook. Comments – some rather direct – have been made back and forth about Facebook and LinkedIn and who’s on what. Here’s a different perspective. Christopher Alexander, in…

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  • Call a K7 Number on the 7s!

    As many of you know, those who have K7 free call in numbers have to have activity on those numbers every 30 days or they get deleted. Instead of just calling our own, why not call someone else’s today? (call your own too, just to be safe) Here’s the ones listed on NewEnglandPodcasting.com: 206-202-2974 –…

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  • 8 things about me… or at the least, my iTunes

    I was trying to come up with 8 things about me to fit the 8 things meme that [a] are interesting and [b] don’t venture into the boundaries I keep that separate my personal and professional lives. On a whim, iTunes was open, so I thought, hey, what are 8 things in my iTunes that…

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  • Describe the pattern of usage

    A few things came together in my mind on the way to work this morning. If you haven’t read Christopher Alexander’s A Timeless Way of Building, I strongly encourage you to go pick up a copy. It’s a book that’s nominally on architecture, but provides concepts that go far beyond how to build stuff. One…

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  • Since we're on the topic of voting in podcasting…

    … please take a moment to vote for someone who is NOT a podcaster. My friend and musician Natalie Gelman is competing in the Famecast competition as a finalist. She’s podsafe, has been since just after PodCamp Boston 1, and has been a great supporter of podcasting and new media since her introduction to it.…

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  • Too many cameras…

    I just realized after ordering a new Nikon D40 that I have too many cameras. Kodak DX6490 Canon SD450 Nikon Coolpix L2 JVC PV-GS120 Sharp something or other Sanyo VPC-CG65 Nokia N91 On the bright side, they all work. One of these days, I’ll open a used camera store or something. How much fully functional…

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  • Taxes, taxes

    Food for thought. When I mention that Sweden has a very high personal income tax rate, the nationalistic American response is, “Ha! In America, it’s the land of opportunity. Low taxes, capitalism, and opportunity for everyone!” (chances are, if you read this blog, you’re not the typical American, so I’m not counting your responses in…

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  • The Mother of All Pingbacks

    Working off an idea from John Wall and David Meerman Scott, here’s a massive list of everyone who has left me a comment on my blog (or in some cases, a pingback). This list was compiled from the MySQL database that powers my WordPress blog, with the query: SELECT DISTINCT `comment_author` , `comment_author_url` FROM csp891_comments…

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