Check out this video featuring iLike on The Today Show. Pretty cool! A great explanation of what we do, and why artists and users love it. [note: Firefox users who have Adblock Plus installed may need to disable it to play the video]...

I write this from Amarillo, TX; I've been relegated to a desk in the rear of my in-laws' house to make way for Whitney's bachelorette party. A justified use of what I will term "feminent domain". My headphones pipe the Camera Obuscra album that I recently purchased, drowning out all but the regular click of an online poker...

Even though I brought my laptop with me (and have been using it nearly every day), I have neglected posting during my vacation in Texas. I've been crafting a few posts on various subjects; I always find that the longer I wait to complete one, the less likely I am to ever finish it. They seem to burgeon uncontrollably after...

Stories like 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 have always resonated strongly with me. I'm drawn to stories about intelligent and subversive characters overcoming oppression. I'm no conspiracy theorist, yet I don't believe that these books were purely imaginative fiction. The history of the real world — across all periods of t...

Facebook just added a global opt-out for Beacon , their "revolutionary" advertising system. Prior to this, Facebook claimed to offer users an opt-out privacy scheme. However, users who didn't want to participate were required to disable Beacon for each partner site that attempted to send a story after the first story was s...

I read a fair amount of news during the day. It's mostly fed to me through XML feeds that I subscribe to with Google Reader. Very often, the sites to which I subscribe link to news from other sites; every one in a while, the New York Times' website will be the destination of a link in the article I'm reading. The most rece...

In The Reins — Iron & Wine / Calexico In Rainbows — Radiohead Harvest — Neil Young Skyscraper National Park — Hayden Dreams — The Whitest Boy Alive Average album age: 8.6 years (that average is greatly skewed by Neil Young). Interestingly enough, Harvest is also the only album in this list...