Daniel Pearl Video on the Internet. Freedom Of Speech? Awareness? Snuff-Film? Mass objective-ism is dead, as I've learned in the past few days. I read and hear journalists, editorialists, and radio personalities proudly waving the red "snuff film" flag. However a gruesomely sad memorium for Daniel Pearl's friends and family, this triggers a sense of wonderment at whom the legal actions are currently in focus on... the websites posting the video clip. Have we already forgotten who committed the crimes of kidnapping and murder? I think I smell a witch burning. CENSORSHIP? Rotten.com removed the file upon request by the FBI and possibility of being sued by the Pearl family. Ogrish.com, from NL, had the file removed by his ISP who seems to have been muscled by the FBI outside D.C., in Virginia. ConsumptionJunction remains one of the few at this date with the clip in place, will the the "legal team" keep it there? This situation could be *the* important freedom of speech event for the Web. REMEMBER THE CRIME. The clip is unbelievable, gross, and shows just how these insane people "work". Now, we know that dealing with these people as fellow civilized humans isn't possible. This video documents this horror better than any verbal speech that could be given. Watch it if you wish, but by all means, don't hide it and pretend this atrocity didn't happen. In memory of Daniel Pearl... know that these animals must be cornered and snuffed-out themselves. Americans, know this... we cannot treat this enemy of the world as a political group. The enemy seeks nothing other than their own agenda, and values nothing else. peace- seanrox

Bothering me. Most important web site feature. Almost ready to pass-out, and as usual, my mind is filling up with thoughts, ideas, and the paranoia of the possibility no one is listening. Is anyone hearing me? For the past couple years, I've stressed if only one feature on any site can be built it should be a user-management system. Not a message board. Not games. Not a shopping cart. All of these other features are useless until the user-management system is in place. Once in place... the these other features plug right in. There, I've blogged it finally. ASPs and communities... please stop and realize this. The LCD of growing sites know this. Everything is user-centric... preferences, information, content, ad placement, communication and even commerce. It's so obvious, it hurts to hear it discounted. Build, buy or steal it. Just do it. Now, I'll try to sleep. peace- seanrox

A Moron Never Sleeps. (listening to Zero 7) Apologies to self... a fortnight slips past without this shared conversation. The mind churned idea and after idea for the future. Ideas vs. Time... time always wins. I wish I had two of me around at times. Guess that's what great partners are for. MM's new Song. MM's been swinging in the forefront with a new track, "RedneckRockTonight". After recording it with a new mixer and two mics, seems we need a better mix. However clever the song maybe, the levels weren't satisfactory... even for mm. Need to play guitar much lower, record the level lower as well. Mostly because, from a volume perspective, I'm compensating the voice with volume, which takes away from the quality of the vocals, and sounds "forced". Despite the mm's recording motto of "horribly great", we'll try again this next week. Camera Arrives. No excuses. Neosurrealism has digital-imagery ammunition. Experiment, shoot, create... art must begin again and live in that afore mentioned forefront. Re-attach with the law. Viral Invasion. A new property, RockSexParty (currently pointed at mm), embodies the random viral entertainment income model. Some branded. Some not so much. I don't expect to spend much energy on this one after the initial launch. Just files sitting on a fat-ass pipe. Second Dot-Com Rise? As are other established properties, CJ's hacking away at growth. While the lame-ass, VC-wasting, dot-com "visionaries" now busy bussing tables and cleaning the deepfryer, the patient independent sites have grown and now position themselves to diversify with proven web-centric content copycat sites and online rev-models that work. As I read somewhere... "Content may be king, but Traffic is God." As apposed to the Dot-Com goldrush, the tools are here now to make this all happen efficiently. Be interesting to know how many automobile manufacturers popped up 'back in the day'. The cable networks have been merging the past few years... expect the Web to do the same very soon. These two mediums will merge eventually as well. Remember... I said it first. I'm unclean and hungry... bad combo. Later. peace- seanrox

The post wave 1990... the year before grunge. (stacy with the younger, thinner sean) **EDIT** many question asked... answers: I was 19, months after cutting off the metal-mullet, into that feaux-mohawk. I was about 135-140lbs with no money for food. Done. Enjoy. ********** peace- seanrox

SEANROX CORP... mediahog central.

INITIAL STRATEGY.
No real corporate secrets... only way to compete is diversify. The competition: poverty and "corporate casual".

Night before last, I spent quite a bit of time visually organizing the assets, offerings and properties of seanROXMedia as a whole. Then, identifying the classification of each, and how it relates to the others. The design service offerings and markets; my original art including series, commission and retail opps; songwriting and possible perfomance as myself and mm, with the obvious merchandizing that's involved; and the entertainment venues with rev-gen and/or cross-promotional opportunities, no matter how miniscule.

Idea is... everything feeds everything is some manner... each market leads into the next... develop a network of properties that feeds the hungry beast of boredom and provides anti-poverty ammunition to all involved. To create more freedom from everything they said was important that wasn't. The only cap is amount of time in the day... and I'm obviously stretching that. Weaker pieces will fall to the wayside, and stronger ones arise. As will I... hopefully, with heart, and creative mind.

BTW... thanks to mscinny for plugging mm today. My traffic numnums were slippin'... needed the boost.

(CoolPix5000 ordered, be here next week.)

peace-
seanrox

OOPS. GOT BUSY? Aight... enough flack for not reporting on the rest of Midtown.. sheesh. A fortunate wave of extracurricular work bestowed hours of engaging pixel-shifting pleasure upon me in place of my blogging. So here's a quick run-thru of the "rest of the weekend"... MusicMidtown 2002 PT. 2 Sat: Still no rain. Counting Crowes, long lines to th toilet. Bush rocked... cozy in a sea of people... getting a bit rough. Push to the front for a better view. Turbulent crowd, hard to breathe. Must save cellphone. Put in pocket... oops! Slips from hand into crowd. Bye Bye Phone. Being crushed, can't breathe feel so hot... might faint. Old man gets out of crowd and sits to watch the rest of the STP show. ScottWeiland is a showman. Taxi back with clothes soaked thru with sweat. Coke's new diet "water" product, Propel, sucks my ass. Sun: Still no rain. Sunny, in fact. Garbage... thick accent and solid. Not really "sun" music tho. Puddle of Mudd... nirvana, pearljam, and alice in chains (god rest layne staley's bones) rehashed. I don't get it... except the "smack my ass" part. Dugout passed around... Gwen Stefani is hot. Taxi. Sleep. peace- seanrox

MUSIC MIDTOWN 2002: Saturday... pre-event my show schedule. full schedule. midtown PICS weather forecast: HOUR BY HOUR. Fri: QuickReview. Didn't rain at all. Crowd wasn't bad at all, considering the historical droves... guess many people didn't want to get wet. Also, the overall line-up wasn't as strong as most Friday nights have been in the past. Fri: Treacherous Cab AK & swerved along from the attic to the event, and had the cab stop at the main entrance near the civic center/WillCall. Appearently the female cop was as impressed with our cab driver's driving skills as we were, and promised a ticket to him as we rolled out in a plume of smoke. $5 tip should cover that. hehe Fri: RockCommerce Waited at WillCall for Jesse. Tickets. Enter. Beer. Update the aged wooden bead necklace around my neck. (Don't worry 'rin, I'll still buy one from ya). Fri: Rock Metroscene Caught Metroscene... IMHO... still think my dear friend needs a charasmatic leader, and more cool harmonies as heard in a couple of the tunes. Fri: Rock on Butch Butch Walker, god bless his soul. First ever performance without the other marvelous Two and the sound was on and off... crushed the momentum... but the performance was still there. Glad to see both Mark from BlackLightPosterboys rockin' on stage with Butch on guitar, red-mohawk and all... another rockstar. Butch is in prime position to capture an audience... needs *that* song to do it. Fri: Jam War GyroTime! Got a Tull shirt.... Remember the song "LowRider"? That was War... and we caught the jam... still with that magic groove. Fri: Jam Tull After a long wait between bands, the "incomparable" Jethro Tull with Ian Anderson took stage. Favorite after favorite... twas like classic storytelling mixed with hippie-jam-band vibe. Breath-control still as good as ever, and Ian still owns the stage. Could have a been a bit louder to drown out DavidLeeRoth down the hill. Strangely... didn't play "Too Old to RocknRoll". hehe Cab back. Fell to sleep. Wet again today. Pancho in hand. Please allow me to suck down some more java before the show... today's highlights should be: Counting Crowes, Bush, and STP. peace- seanrox

MUSIC MIDTOWN 2002: Friday...pre-event Here's my show schedule... I'm sure it'll change thru-out the weekend a bit. Forecast... wet. :( Bring Panchos... thunderstorms all day today, tonight and into tomorrow. I'm most excited about Jethro Tull. Never seen them, and Ian Anderson embodies all that is mystical... and odd. hehe See you all at the show. Not bringing a camera. peace- seanrox