All Things Cahill

Friday Music Video: John Coltrane – Greensleeves

Mark Cahill — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:19:18 +0000

Not really a video…but certainly one of my favorite songs of all time. Note how it combines an optimistic theme with a strong blues undertone. In 35 years, I still hear something new every time.

Designing for the iPad?

Mark Cahill — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:37:14 +0000

I was listening to a netcast this morning (This Week in Media) and the host Alec Lindsey put forward the suggestion that many content related businesses were planning on developing specific content for the iPad. I had a couple thoughts… Why would you funnel development dollars into creating something for a single platform, when that platform [...]

New Site: BayStatePowerWashing.com

Mark Cahill — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:27:24 +0000

Over the past few weeks I pulled together a new site for my friend Ryan Mowry, owner of BayState Power Washing. The site is built in wordpress and uses a fairly standard template. Points to consider: This is a test of a new localized SEO tactic. The site hadn’t been indexed yet by Google yesterday, the last [...]

Random Boat Show Thoughts

Mark Cahill — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:57:08 +0000

I should (hopefully…fingers crossed) have a vidcast from the floor of the boat show for you tomorrow. Depending on my ability to edit it down into something approximating a coherent effort. Which is a bit of a tall order, seeing as I shot the whole thing on my iPhone. The good stuff will be in the [...]

Derek Trucks – I’d Rather Be Blind, Crippled and Crazy

Mark Cahill — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:19:47 +0000

Another great video of Derek Trucks

iCoffin

Mark Cahill — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:58:49 +0000

I’ve got no words for this one. Brilliant…

Demand Media and the New Economy of the Journalist

Mark Cahill — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:51:04 +0000

Demand Media has been a constant topic of conversation among online journalists of late. It all began with this article in Wired entitled “The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media Model“. Plenty of other companies — About.com, Mahalo, Answers.com — have tried to corner the market in arcane online [...]

The Blogs as Aggregator

Mark Cahill — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:10:46 +0000

Over the past two years, we’ve seen the genie come out of the bag on blogging. In the good old days if you wanted our content, you came to our blog. Now, our content is being automatically posted in a bunch of spots, perhaps on Facebook, Google Buzz, Google Reader, and even the headline shows [...]

Mattel Adds SMDB Barbie

Mark Cahill — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:23:34 +0000

Mattel today announced they’ve add “Social Media Douche Bag” to the list of Barbie’s professions. The new Barbie, which comes complete with it’s own iPhone, iPad and Twitter account will hit store shelves soon. “This career just kind of happened.” notes Mattel product coordinator, Roberta Smith. “We had a ton of left over ‘Journalist Barbies’ and [...]

The Illusion of Privacy

Mark Cahill — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:10:06 +0000

The launch of Google Buzz this week has once again brought questions of privacy and social networking applications to the forefront. Just as many of us have questioned over the past few years the repeated failure of Facebook to respect our privacy. To my mind, this is a very simple thing: never post anything to any [...]