Detroit,Music
16 June 2010 | View Comments
For the past two months I have been working on a very big project, a vision that I had a little while ago and is starting to take shape as I type this. The idea was to get out of the clubs and bars and start playing dance music at other venues with fun activities [...]
Tagged in bowling, Breakbeats, dance music, drinking, electro, house
General
28 May 2010 | View Comments
This weekend is the 10th anniversary of one of the most legendary music festivals in the entire world. While the festival has yet to see some of the incredible numbers it did back in the day, (1-2 million estimated) the festival still attracts dance music acts and aficionados from around the world. My first festival [...]
Social Media
21 May 2010 | View Comments
A lot has happened since my recent blog posting about Twitter’s failed attempt at adding native support for re-tweets. My rabble-rousing may or may not have had any effect on the outcome, but I’m extremely happy with it nonetheless. First, it should be noted that another controversy was stirred up on Twitter when it was [...]
Tagged in facebook, retweet, search, Social Media, twitter
Social Media
8 May 2010 | View Comments
I came to a startling revelation today about Twitter. I noticed that people have been re-tweeting me for a long time without me noticing. I dug around a little bit to see what was going on, and I’m absolutely livid that Twitter has dropped the proverbial ball so badly. For those of you who joined [...]
Tagged in retweet, Social Media, twitter
Technology
30 April 2010 | View Comments
Steve Jobs released an open letter (what we city folk call a blog post) on apple.com today, explaining his reasons why Flash would not be included on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices. You can read the blog p… open letter here: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ Here are the key points that were brought up. (Thanks to [...]
Tagged in Adobe Flash, Apple, iPad, iPhone, Steve Jobs
Technology
9 April 2010 | View Comments
Over the past year or so, I have started to do my own research on Ethanol fuel. I have learned about the different ways it is made, the optimal conditions for using it, and the lies that the petroleum industry have told us about this amazing, renewable fuel. One thing I learned is that flex [...]
Tagged in ethanol, flex fuel vehicle, Ignite Detroit!
Social Media
11 March 2010 | View Comments
Detroit’s online community has pulled together this week to support our home team in the Chevy South-by-Southwest (#DETChevySXSW on Twitter) road trip challenge. Four professionals from Detroit’s online community were chosen to represent our city, and compete against seven teams from other cities as they drive a Chevy Traverse down to Austin and complete missions [...]
Tagged in chevy, detchevysxsw, Detroit
Detroit
22 January 2010 | View Comments
I am proud to be a part of the inaugural Ignite Detroit! event taking place at the Magic Stick on February 25th. I first attended Ignite Lansing! last summer, and a few of the Detroit-based attendees and I decided we should bring the event to Detroit. Ignite Detroit is a night of presentations with a twist. Presenting [...]
Tagged in Ignite Detriot!
DMFAD
17 December 2009 | View Comments
This next album, ’64-’95 by Lemon Jelly, is a such a privilege for me to talk about. This is my first post in “DJ Meph’s Favorite Albums of the Decade” where I can actually talk about how the album influenced me as a musician, producer and DJ. I started spinning records in 2005 after I [...]
Tagged in Breakbeats, Lemon Jelly