Archive for the ‘Link Love’ Category

Love this post from 43 Folders in which Brian Eno chats about creating that MSFT sound… From an article in SFGate …I think I’ve got every Eno albumn and didn’t know this… Brilliant…

The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I’d been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, “Here’s a specific problem — solve it.”

The thing from the agency said, “We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah- blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional,” this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said “and it must be 3 1/4 seconds long.”

I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It’s like making a tiny little jewel.

In fact, I made 84 pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I’d finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time.

Well how about this.

Hey, most of us are broke anyway… Pretty wild tale from BW. One of the most common questions I get during my workshop is how do you find time to blog and does it detract from doing business. The answer is that it does require a committment but it should enhance your business. But there is no subsitute for putting first things first.

According to Infoworld

Bill Howard on Sun Blogs. Bill’s office was next to mine at Sun – great guy.