About

About this blog

I started this blog to follow and analyze:

  1. How we consume digital media (music, movies, TV, blogs, user-generated content, or otherwise)
  2. How technology and innovation affects consumer behavior
  3. How markets are adjusting to meet these developments

 

About Me (Ryan)

Current job: Director of Product Management, Blockbuster Online

Early Employment: Paperboy (age 11), Round table pizza (age 14), RasterOps (age 15 and 16), Apple Computer (age 18), Novations Group (age 22 and 23)

Post-College Employment: Ernst & Young, Vividence, Yahoo, Bain & Company, Blockbuster

Schools: BYU (Economics), Wharton (MBA)

Music favorites: The Pixies, Boards of Canada, Radiohead, Daft Punk, LCD Soundsystem, Built to Spill, Miles Davis, Elliott Smith, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Nick Drake, Wilco, Spoon, DJ Shadow, and many many others.

Movie favorites: The Godfather I and II, Batman Begins, Office Space, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Better off Dead

Favorite Books: Flow, High Fidelity, Amusing Ourselves to Death, The Screwtape Letters

Computer History: 128K Mac (1984) bought at Macys in Stanford Shopping Center, Mac IIcx (1989) bought at the Apple dealership in Palo Alto, Mac Powerbook 170 (1992) bought from some dude in the Tower Records parking lot in Mountain View found via Usenet (Mac Powerbook 5300c (1996) bought at the BYU Bookstore, a Dell Dimension XPS R450 (1998) bought on the Dell website, a homemade piece of junk I assembled from parts and held together with rubberbands (2001), an IBM Thinkpad T40 (2003) bought from UPenn’s bookstore, and the iMac Core Duo 20″ (2006) bought from some guy off Craigslist.

 

Personal links

My LinkedIn Profile
My Facebook Profile
My Bookmarks (del.icio.us)
My old blog