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Diggs This
RZA of Wu-Tang Clan has invested in AYO Music Group, the music copyright company co-founded by Tracklib’s Pär Almqvist and clearance veteran Deborah Mannis-Gardner. AYO helps rightsholders get more out of their catalogues. Bobby Digital is in the building. Pär (AKA Peyo) Almqvist is a magical creative being and my Swedish brother. If past lives…
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Better Day, Sunshine
I haven’t driven a car in decades (New Yorker). But from my pre-New York life, I remember how sun glare could turn a pleasant road trip into a blinding gauntlet. Enter “Sunward,” a uniquely specific…
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The Day the Focus Died
If we failed to do this, I feared, we would stop leading the industry and turn into “merely the CSS trick of the week.”
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Figma Tips and Shortcuts
℅ Automattic Design:
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Remembrance of Websites Past
2000 was the peak year for Adobe’s website. It was a content site filled with creative how-to articles, opinion pieces, and artist interviews where you could also, if you wished, buy or get info on Adobe products. Now this is how you create a product site for a suite of creative products, I told myself…
My Glamorous Life
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Now Playing: “Side Two”
For your listening pleasure: 17 new tracks of instrumental music pulling from jazz-funk, Italian movie soundtracks, electronica, hip-hop, art rock and beyond.
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Silly Old Bear
Remembrance of Poohs past.
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Another Saturday, Another Song.
🎧 “Side Two” LP in progress. At 14 songs, it is nearly complete. I expect to release it before the year’s end.
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My Glamorous Life: in Which I am a Target
As I limped home from Physical Therapy, a man walking in the opposite direction suddenly planted himself directly in front of me and slammed me in the head with a heavy bag. It was a…
the Daily Report
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Undersung Hero: M. Frog
I bought this LP because of its Milton Glaser-designed cover featuring the colored pencil musical notations of composer/synthesist and former monk Jean-Yves Labat, alias M. Frog. It was 1973; I was about to become a…
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My Glamorous Life: A Good Lie
For “My father’s favorite food is,” the kid had written SALAD.
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AI, Disruption, and Standards
Individually, we have very little power, but together we have a great deal of power. In response to a series of Medium articles by Patrick Neeman—like this one that addressed issues of AI governance, fairness,…
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Tales o’ Tech: Suffering Fools
Why first impressions are often correct. Today’s jerk is tomorrow’s techno-fascist.
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Mix
The start of a beautiful weekend.
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Her Glamorous Life
Snow White—17 years old—didn’t come meowing for food when I entered the kitchen at 6 a.m. An hour later I found her lying motionless on the sofa. I stared until she moved, slightly, nestling her…
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