How Classical KUSC uses data to make product decisions
The digital team at Classical KUSC [http://www.kusc.org] and Classical KDFC [http://www.kdfc.com] uses data regularly to help make product decisions. For our most...
Content + Content Format + Codec
For new developers interested in audio, the world of compression algorithms, codecs and content formats is somewhat confusing. For this reason, I've decided to create an...
Investing
I've been learning about investment strategies lately and I've found these resources to be the most valuable ones for me. Personal Investment Strategy At...
Affiliate Marketing Tools
Below are a few tools I use to integrate affiliate marketing into websites and apps. Before we start Here are a few other things I find helpful to...
5 ways to tell a story
This may sound a little rudimentary, but that's the point. We consume so much information today that it's sometimes easy to forget what information...
Interaction Design
I really appreciate this definition of interaction design. As a producer, it gets me to think about creating an selling an experience as a product or service. >...
Tinkering
> Tinkering is what happens when you try something you don't quite know how to do, guided by whim, imagination, and curiosity. When you tinker, there...
The challenge of for-profit platforms
> For all our talk about the social web, what we're very often sharing on for-profit social platforms amounts to nothing more than narcissistic rumination. * Jimmy...
Simplicity
> Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Steve Jobs...
Steve Jobs Sold Solutions, Not Hardware
I love this quote. It teaches me that I should always focus on selling the benefits, not the features. > What we were selling was solutions, not hardware...
Shaping How Content is Made
> Spreadability is not just about viral videos, it can also be a public apparatus where people help shape how content is made.[1] @henryjenkins [https://twitter.com/...
Bake Your Marketing Strategy Into Your Product
> Great companies have marketing intentionally built into the DNA of their products. YouTube's video sharing, Groupon's group buying, Method's stunning packaging,...
Steve Jobs and NeXT
Incredible footage of Steve Jobs while at Next computers....
Answering life's questions through research
Most of life's questions can be explained using one of these six methodologies: Case studies: * Focus groups * Interviews * Surveys * Experiments (Independent Research) * Behavioral Tracking / Monitoring...
6 reasons why your employees may leave
I'm here at SXSW Interactive, and I stumbled upon this fascinating lecture [http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP6885]. Six reasons why your employees may leave:...
Digital music: production, distribution, and consumption
I like this quote because it helps me understand the trade-off music will experience as it transitions from an analog medium to a digital one. > It could...
Digital theory: Theorizing New Media
I'm reading a few books on new media, including Digital Theory [1], and I thought these quotes were interesting. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Western cultures, people used products...
The role of a product owner
> Writer Jonathan Swift observed, "Vision is the art of seeing things invisible." The product owner is a visionary who can envision the final product and...
4 rules on how to be a great delegate
I was watching a video tutorial by Simon Allardice, where he began explaining the rules for being a great delegate in Objective-C. I found them quite useful in...
Don't start from scratch
My thesis advisor gave me this and I really took it to heart. I guess what I love about this quote is that it can be applied to...
Groundswell Test
New online platforms are arriving all the time so it's helpful to have a little test that separates the good from the bad. * Does it enable...