I discovered recently that an interview Bob and I did 10 years ago on GigGuide.tw before our February 17 2013 reunion shows in Taipei and and a show later that year in New York was taken offline...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2023/02/resurrecting-feiwus-2013-interview-with.html
In 1996, I bought a used IBM ThinkPad 701c (486 architecture) in a Hong Kong computer market. I think it was about $900. A journalist at the time, I was backpacking through China and Southeast As...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2023/01/ibm-thinkpad-701-powerful-enough-to-run.html
I'm reading a memoir by MIT professor Sherry Turkle , The Empathy Diaries. I attended a talk she game some years ago at the MIT Media Lab and was fascinated - her research revolves around que...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2022/06/why-our-ancestors-sometimes-lied-on.html
There is an interesting article titled "Bob Dylan Lays Down What Really Killed Rock ’n’ Roll. " I don't agree with the thesis that rock was destined to stay locked into the modes of the 1950s...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2021/05/what-killed-rock-n-roll-payola-20.html
Why does most Taiwanese film and media struggle outside of East and Southeast Asia, while Korean pop culture takes the world by storm? I've been thinking a lot about this in recent years, but ...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2020/04/whats-holding-back-taiwan-entertainment.html
There is a great video about late 80s/early 90s studio tech, specifically the budget Amiga sampler ecosystem that drove a lot of experimentation with dance and hip-hop at that time: I laughed o...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2020/02/dance-music-1991.html
For at least 15 years, there has been a lot of hand-wringing in higher education about the impact of new technologies on education. I've written about it myself many times (see "For-profit school...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2019/01/yet-another-post-about-future-of.html
Hi Jeff, Check out the attached message I got from Amazon over the weekend! My mom purchased a cat tree using my "shared payment method" for my Amazon Music Unlimited family plan . What do...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2018/04/what-do-amazon-music-family.html
Friends have asked me about Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to the ground-breaking 1982 film by Director Ridley Scott and a very talented cast, crew, and composer. I was 13 when the first film came...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2018/03/a-late-review-of-blade-runner-2049.html
The New York Times published an article this week titled China is trying to police what people are saying about it around the world . I've written about China and its paranoid information-control...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2018/03/the-new-york-times-published-article.html
Facebook has a lot of problems on its plate right now , but one of the worst trends has been the poorly thought out march to video. It came from Zuckerberg and was repeated by various senior Fac...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2018/02/facebooks-failed-march-to-video.html
Something I wrote was illegally republished on a website. This happens quite frequently with the books I publish, but usually on low-grade torrents or foreign scrapers. I can't do much about thos...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2017/11/when-lawyers-are-in-charge-of-removing.html
A lot of self-published authors have recently noticed a problem with some of the promotions they've been using to boost sales and ranking of Kindle ebooks on Amazon. Once-safe promotional newslet...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2017/10/amazon-cracking-down-on-newsletter.html
Google appears to be getting ready for re-entry into the People's Republic of China or Soviet Russia, judging by the "Revisionist Concepts: Unacceptable Anti Content" notification I received from...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2017/10/google-kills-my-ad-for-revisionist.html
You may have heard the news about "Bodega ," a hot Silicon Valley startup that wants to shake up the vending machine space with machine learning and clever placement. They've got two young ex-Goo...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2017/10/a-startup-called-bodega.html
I was going through some old photos and computer files this morning, and happened upon the following email. It's from sometime in 1995 (didn't preserve the headers) and was addressed to an op-ed ...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2017/09/an-email-from-1995-impact-of-voip-and.html
There is an interesting article on NPR about Bob Seger titled "Where Have All The Bob Seger Albums Gone ?" Seger is a singer/songwriter from the 70s and early 80s who dominated classic rock radio...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2017/05/there-is-interesting-article-on-npr.html
A friend on Twitter lamented that the shift from printed newspapers to online news has led to a flood of clickbait that wasn’t present before. While it’s true that clickbait—articles whose ...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2016/11/a-history-of-clickbait-and-keyword.html
Yesterday I had a chance to give an online presentation about using Twitter to cover breaking news or share information about live events. The event was hosted by Mediashift , a media education a...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2016/09/how-to-live-tweet-events.html
Last fall The New Yorker published an article about LinkedIn's founder , Reid Hoffman. LinkedIn is a huge social network focused on professional connections (see What is LinkedIn? ). It is use...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2016/03/how-much-do-linkedin-job-ads-cost.html
In the past few years, a lot of people have remarked about how their reading habits have changed. Here’s an example I saw on Hacker News earlier this week: > I was a good reader through...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2015/12/the-evolution-of-reading-in-digital-age.html
(Updated) Gigaom abruptly failed yesterday . This was a respected organization with lots going for it, including a talented editorial staff, a slate of impressive events, and (by its own admissio...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2015/03/the-numbers-that-help-explain-why.html
The Monday Note is one of the best media commentaries online. The two authors, Frédéric Filloux and Jean-Louis Gassée, have very intelligent and informed perspectives on legacy media and new t...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2015/02/buzzfeed-and-linkedin-go-wide-but-what.html
I am small business owner. Last year, on the advice of my accountant, I began a subscription to Quickbooks Online. At first I really hated it -- the QBO user interface was confusing and it took...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2014/12/qbo-user-interface-improvements-step-in.html
I am using a Xiaomi "Redmi" phone (紅米) in Taiwan. Xiaomi is rapidly gaining a reputation in the mobile industry as a company that makes solid Android phones for a great price — but also a ...
https://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2014/08/the-redmi-phone-is-not-apple-clone.html