http://changesgood.siddiqbello.com Ramblings on technology, innovation, effectuation, entrepreneurship, digital distribution and corporate life. Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:45:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A paper I co-authored with Samuel Suraphel entitled "Turning Stories into Creative Content" was accepted last week for publication and presentation at the 3rd anual International Conference on Appropriate Technology. The conference offers a series of sophisticated academic explorations on the practical application of new and old technologies to energy, ... http://changesgood.siddiqbello.com/2008/09/27/icat-paper-presentation-in-rwanda/ Technorati Tags: Slacker uprising,michael Moore,politics,movies,social media,free as in air,voting,registration I signed up to get Michael Moore's latest documentary Slacker Uprising a few weeks ago and this morning I received an email telling me it was now available. The documentary covers Moore's failed bid to oust Bush the Lesser ... http://changesgood.siddiqbello.com/2008/09/23/slacker-uprisings-weak-social-media-distribution/ The Obama presidential campaign will be remembered for its many first. The first bi-racial presidential candidate, the first presidential candidate to acknowledge his black children, the first presidential candidate with an African first name and the first presidential candidate to release a digital CD. The compilation was put together by the ... http://changesgood.siddiqbello.com/2008/09/21/obama-says-yes-we-can-to-digital-music/ | View | Upload your own This is part of the presentation I gave in Chicago, it started off the sessions and was intended to give people an understanding of the terms, phrases and language of Web 2.0 pundits and users. In a strange twist, all the audio from this ... http://changesgood.siddiqbello.com/2008/08/05/technobabble-the-language-of-web-20/ I've never been a fan of the Zune, back in November of '06 I laid out 10 reasons the Zune would fail and was surprised by the number of Zune fans that told me I was dead wrong. Of course the ultimate expression of Zune fandom was when Steve Smith's ... http://changesgood.siddiqbello.com/2008/07/29/zune-epic-fail-tattooed-fanboy-buys-ipod/ With gas prices through the roof and sales of gas guzzlers in free fall it really shouldnt come as a surprise that the big auto makers are readjusting plans and making changes. Besides blue-collar layoffs and office cut-backs, it seems that even the folks on Madison avenue may also have ... http://changesgood.siddiqbello.com/2008/07/29/auto-makers-reducing-spending-and-switching-to-digital/ Was just looking at Paul Lamere's list of accepted papers for the ISMIR conference and they are amazing. The academics are once again showing the executives how innovative thinking can move the industry towards solving users practical problems and create new business opportunities along the way. At least the academics have ... http://changesgood.siddiqbello.com/2008/07/29/academics-plan-the-celectial-jukebox/ Content Beyond Bet.com view presentation (tags: content bet.com marketing advertising) This is a SlideCast presentation of online content offerings beyond BET.com. The discussion was lead by m friend Guy Primus VP of Interactive Media for Overbrook Entertainment. Edited out much of the Q&A and some of the incredibly fun banter we had ... http://changesgood.siddiqbello.com/2008/07/23/african-american-content-beyond-betcom/ http://changesgood.siddiqbello.com/2008/07/18/what-ive-been-up-to/ An interesting article from the good folks at TorrentFreak. While it wont have any of the humor and fireworks ThePirateBay brings to the party, I still think this will be an interesting battle. Mininova doesnt run a tracker or host files it is truly only pointing in the ... http://changesgood.siddiqbello.com/2008/05/20/music-industry-sues-torrent-site-yawn/