Jason Bogovich

My first child, Trevor was born at 5PM Est on October 3rd. He was 9 pounds and 2 ounces and was almost 22 inches long. Check out his page at www.trevorbogovich.com

I can’t say how pround and happy I am as a new father, and I can’t tell you how much I miss sleeping 8 hours a night.

Pandora is desperately seeking just a little bit of time from your day to support internet radio. From there site:

Listeners we need your help… NOW!

After a yearlong negotiation, Pandora, artists and record companies are finally optimistic about reaching an agreement on royalties that would save Pandora and Internet radio. But just as we’ve gotten close, large traditional broadcast radio companies have launched a covert lobbying campaign to sabotage our progress.

Yesterday, Congressman Jay Inslee, and several co-sponsors, introduced legislation to give us the extra time we need but the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), which represents radio broadcasters such as Clear Channel, has begun intensively pressuring lawmakers to kill the bill. We have just a day or two to keep this from collapsing.

This is a blatant attempt by large radio companies to suffocate the webcasting industry that is just beginning to offer an alternative to their monopoly of the airwaves.

I have written a message to Tim Ryan and I encourage you to do so likewise if you support this Pandora:The following is what I told him. (I tried to call senators but their mailboxes were full.)

Tim I am asking you to support H.R. 7084, the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008 - and to not capitulate to pressure from the NAB.

Reasons why:

1. Consumers of all kinds love Internet radio, we learn from cultures all around the world and what types of music they play there, and visa versa.

2. Many of us have thousands upon thousands of dollars equipment which relies on internet radio. My Sterio, my Sonos system, and my phone all use internet radio, this gives me the consumer the choice to consume the choices I want in music.

3. Art can not be strictly about making money. Art in it’s purest form is an extension of a musicians creativity and these large companies just want us listening to the exact same songs which holds back competition from other smaller artists.

4.They do not have the artists interests in mind, we do. They want to make us listen to music in which they have to pay no or next to no royalties on and it’s quite impossible to break into this market.

Yeap, all of the plans are made, bags are packed, pool closed, cars fixed & cleaned, time away scheduled, anxiety high, excitement growing it a single point in any man’s life which only happens once. Your first child is about to be born. (Anyone see the SouthWest Airlines commercial with the two face’d baggage handler?)

I was just reading this post, it’s about a new nice Cannon which is about to be released which ill give you very very nice 1080p video quality. I won’t be getting it but I’d like to have as high as quality of video for after the delivery. I think it would be cool to see video of myself when I saw the world for teh first half an hour. I must have been amazed!

More than anything I’m just hoping for a healthy smooth ride and transition. Best of luck to my wife and the nameless one! My birthday is this Wednesday that would be cool. My kid would get the best birthday presents!

There is so much about Apple I don’t like. Sure, there is much more that I do like. The traits which make them the most successful are among the former. What I’m talking about it Apple’s super closed nature. Take iTunes for example: a very usable, entertaining closed system; but it’s also what has made it work.

To make a long post short, basically Apple understands Michael Porter’s “Five Forces of Competition” better than any powerful tech firm today with the exception of perhaps Microsoft, Oracle and maybe a couple others.

Porter’s Five Forces

Existing competitive rivalry between suppliers

Threat of new market entrants

Bargaining power of buyers

Power of suppliers

Threat of substitute products (including technology change)

Apple has the ability to control its suppliers on a scale few others can talk about. It buys commodity goods and understands how to retain power over his suppliers. There is no company better at locking out substitute products.

Having said that: I see no reason why not, and many reasons for Apple creating an iTunes Web API. IMO It would quckly rival even the Gmaps API in terms of use. It would drive down usage of Last.FM’s API, and would make iTunes more of a standard on the web, not to mention could be used to drive iTunes usage penetration, as well as increase its value to the consumer and increase the value of Apple as a developer standard.

Imagine being able to integrate ratings, music samples, the new App store, Movies, movie trailors, and other goodies including the new App store statistics right into any web, mobile or traditional app. I’d love to know your thoughts but I certainly believe it would be fantastic for Apple to intergrate this into Xcode’s Web Deveopment tools and even iWeb. But I’d also like to hear your thoughts? Do you think Rhapsody’s API is good enough? Amazon? It would be cool to get a comment or two every once in a while!

The electronic frontier foundation is not happy, and neither are most people who will not have one of the most litigious corporations browsing through their private lives and the judge didn’t even give the matter any analysis according to the EFF.

Court Ruling Will Expose Viewing Habits of YouTube Users.

The court’s order grants Viacom’s request and erroneously ignores the protections of the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), and threatens to expose deeply private information about what videos are watched by YouTube users. The VPPA passed after a newspaper disclosed Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork’s video rental records. As Congress recognized, your selection of videos to watch is deeply personal and deserves the strongest protection.

They issued this statement, arguing like Google that the VPPA act, although passed for analog technology definitely was passed to protect the viewing privacy of our citizens, and that it needs to be up held. Google has been a pretty good steward of user’s data, and it fights these sorts of judge rulings, where as Microsoft in the past (for instance) has quickly turned over any material, without double guessing the privacy ramifications.

Of 180’s
The last three weeks have been hell. I don’t want my blog to start off with Drama but I was wondering if anyone else out there has ever been through a multi-week/multi-angle spell of bad luck and at the very end you get a few things that happen and everything is okay again and looking good again? It almost seems like I’m bipolar but I really am affected by bad and good luck I think.

Kicking the Tires In here….

Trying to think about what types of things I’d like to talk about on my website, I’ve had my technology business focused blog for a few years and I really want to start pulling my opinion out of it a bit and really talk about things which I find interesting here so that I can focus more professional thinking there.

Just wanted to kick off a Post to test this new baby out.

 -Jason