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Converting .flac files to .mp3

I’ve been recently jamming to some freely available Yonder Mountain String Band, but ran into the issue of converting .flac files into .mp3 format on a mac. If this problem ails you too, click the link and experience salvation.

I ask Fenton whether he feels at all overwhelmed. He considers this, and shifts in his seat. Yes, he says, finally, but the good still outweighs the bad. “Years ago I was a kid sitting in a room by myself and the world was a big place,” he says, looking out past the porch. “Now [...]

TV and the Web

The challenge for the networks, whose total prime-time audience shrank 3.6 percent last season, is that Web viewing and ad sales, while increasing, are still too small to replace traditional revenue sources. CBS’s April 6 broadcast of the U.S. collegiate basketball championship game, for instance, attracted 17.6 million viewers, according to New York-based Nielsen. By [...]

At your next networking event

It was Internet Week in New York City last week. Rowdy. Here’s 3 questions that seem to work well at networking events: What are surprising things about the business? What are the next 3 big ideas for your project? What have been your most important/key learnings so far? Not your run of the mill schmooze [...]

With or Without Your Glasses

Find the download link (click for larger): One would expect such an important (critical!) button to be the shining star of this download page. … Especially on a website about marketing.

Clutter

Is this really the best we can do? (Click for larger.)

Bonus

Using Digg to accelerate headline creation. Quick (but pretty basic) ways to research your sales letter schwag.

NY Times not holding their end of the bargain

So the NY Times epicly fails their incorporation of iht.com articles in to nytimes.com. All this while they’ve been pushing Google to articifically place their articles in the search results. Yes, migrating all those articles is a project of massive scale. But no, it’s not impossible, especially for a company with their resources. (Not to [...]

Deliberate Reactionism

Gary’s video reminded me of something I (kinda) previously touched on. The technology, social media, and to an extent the overall marketing fields are rife with forward looking and future predicting templars who don’t seem to realize tomorrow doesn’t matter if we can’t get through today. There is value in knowing what lies ahead, but [...]

Your Mystique

We usually hold those we look up to on a weird, existential, and stunningly irrational pedestal. That successful entrepreneur or entertaining speaker or rabid networker seems to have figured out something that you haven’t. How could you ever hope to get there? Until you meet them, share coffee, break bread. Then you realize they have [...]