Jeff Veen’s Start Conference
After leaving Google last month, Jeff Veen’s first new venture out of the gate is “Start,” a one-day conference targeting Web folks who are looking to start their own company. Registration is just $200 for the event, which will feature speeches from Evan Williams, Merlin Mann, WordPress-founder Matt Mullenwag, Om Malik and others.
Highly Suspicious
Pitchfork’s 4.7 review of My Morning Jacket’s Evil Urges does a much better job summing up this particularly frustrating album than my words could do. Oddly, my feeling is that this is a good record. It’s just not a good My Morning Jacket record. The band’s efforts to continuously evolve their sound, which they effectively did on Z, went off-course somehow and resulted in a weird mess. The cringe-worthy “Highly Suspicious” just about says it all — it’s easily one of the worst songs I’ve heard from any of my favorite bands in the last 5 years.