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Woot + Seattle + Me = :D

Dan — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:01:31 +0000

Before this post, I had blogged once this year on this blog. That was an announcement that I was taking a job at a great web agency called The Loud Few. At that time, I promised I would blog more and, while I haven’t kept that promise so far, here’s a second blog post for you. This time, with even bigger news. You may have heard it already, but I wanted to put up an official post.

Starting on September 6th, I’m going to be joining the team at Woot. Yes, that Woot. I’m super excited to get started there. Of course, since their software team is located in Seattle, I am going to have to (read: get to finally) relocate up there. I’ve loved Seattle ever since my first visit 15 years ago. The city, the climate and the countryside are all extremely appealing to me. Another bonus is that I’m going to be relatively close to the large grouping of friends who moved to Portland after college.

Of course, it’ll be sad to move away from all the people and places around the greater St. Louis area, but we will definitely be back to visit. I will also try to keep this blog up to date on stuff going on with us in Seattle.

P.S.
I can’t believe I’m moving to the city of PAX the weekend after PAX. Nooooooo!

Grammy MusicTech Summit

Dan — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:52:43 +0000

This afternoon, I participated in my first-ever panel at a conference. Specifically the Seattle MusicTech Summit put on by the Grammy’s Recording Academy. The panel was a lot of fun and my co-panelists were all really smart and I can only hope that my comments were as interesting to the crowd as theirs were to me. The topic was “Building the Perfect Artist Website”.

Here are some of the things that we touched on:

Flash sucks
Genuine fan interaction is critical
Go where the people are (Facebook, MySpace, etc.)
But bring them back to your site (don’t let Facebook own your relationships with the fans)
Having a not-so-great site is better than having no site.

The other panelists were:

Larry Mizell, 206 Proof
Brenden Mulligan, Artist Data
Scott Porad, Cheezeburger Network
Steve Mack (Moderator), Lux Media

Bizarro World, USA

Dan — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:47:27 +0000

Somehow, I’ve stumbled upon this strange bizarro world with no Walmarts. The only Walmart we could find after an hour of searching (with a GPS, mind you) was marked as “Walmart Supercenter” on the GPS but turned out to be a “Walmart Neighborhood Market”. I asked to no one in particular, “It’s Walmart, but the sign is green?” We had discovered a heretofore unknown species of Walmarts that only serves groceries. It’s like a Super Walmart without the Walmart.

The organization was odd too. One aisle’s sign listed “Automotive” directly above “Cereal”.