I don’t know how legit this is, but Matt Maher tweeted an interesting article today stating that Apple might be planning to create a software that disables your phone’s camera when you try to video live events like concerts.  Really Apple?  The company that created the serving-size record?  Now you want to crack down on ‘sharing’?

Here’s the thing.  The Music Industry can continue pointing fingers at technology for the loss of their revenue or they can simply embrace that this is a different age and there’s nothing they can do about it.  People are going to share music.  There’s no way around it.  People are going to record your concerts with their phones.  It can’t be stopped.  And if I were an artist, instead of focussing on what needs to stop, I’d spend a little time making sure that my show was the absolute best experience that it could be so when folks see a crappy phone video version of it online, they’ll do anything they can to be at the show the next time I’m in town.

The folks that built horse carriages were probably pretty upset about things when the car came along, but at some point they needed to realize that technology had passed them up and if they were going to keep things going, they needed to adapt.  This is no different.  Apple won’t save the music industry (that they helped alter) because their camera’s magically stop working at shows.

My advice to artists?  Put on a better show. Blow people’s minds and let them share how awesome you are and see what happens.

If You Can’t Beat Em… is a post from: Brody Harper

Kristin always hits it out of the park when she plans things.  Today for Father’s Day, she planned an amazing seven and a half mile canoe trip down the Duck River about 20 or 30 miles from our house.  It’s one of those places that takes you up river in a van and drops you off and gives you several hours to make it back.  Absolutely perfect.  Well, perfect except for the part where I jumped in the river to chase a turtle with my phone in my pocket.  But other than that, perfect.

This morning I woke up to the Kristin and the boys bringing me breakfast in bed.  Cooper was so excited that he swung on the curtains and ripped the pole out of the wall and it slammed into my computer, then spilled the coffee.  Nothing like a dose of fatherhood reality in the midst of breakfast in bed.

So, about a quarter of the way into the trip, we stopped for some lunch.  Now, when I said that Kristin plans, I mean she plans.  Just the sandwich she made was no joke.  Homemade bread, avocado, pesto, turkey, spinach and some other cool stuff.  Then after lunch Kristin had strawberry shortcake.  Frick.  Strawberry shortcake.  On a river.  Complete with whip cream and all that.  I told you she was no joke.

So after seven and a half miles, and another layer of sunburn on the shoulders and a full belly, we’re spending the rest of the day relaxing, watching some movies at some point eating some sushi.  An absolute perfect day despite the distracting turtle that ruined my phone.  I have the coolest family out there.

So, happy Father’s Day to all those dads out there.  Keep your phones out of the water and enjoy the rest of your day.

Father’s Day Canoe Trip is a post from: Brody Harper

Have you ever been addicted to something you suck at?  Words With Friends has become my new addiction and not only that but has now become something that I aspire to become good at…. Because right now… I’m not that good.

Above is an actual game I played with my friend Evan.  Now, he’s a pretty smart guy, and I knew that, but look at some of those words he came up with.  ’Gelato’, ‘Axmen’, ‘Warder’, ‘Ripple’.  These words kill it in Scrabble.  Not to mention all the double and triple word scores.

So I think I’ve only won two or three games in the ten or fifteen I have played.  No good.  Time to pull out the old Dictionary and start reading again.

So who’s got it?  You good at it?  Time waster or amazing technology bringing the world around the Scrabble board in one united awesome game?

And if you’re up for the challenge of everyone reading this, leave your screen name in the comments and let the games begin.

Words With Friends is a post from: Brody Harper

Mostly all of this stuff will be used to entertain either myself or my kids when we are places that we need to be quiet and distracted.  I am still sorting through all the different things that this thing has.  There are tons of games, photo applications, dictionaries, alarms, and a ton of other stuff that I have no idea what it is.

So if you have an iPhone, I would suggest checking out iLiberty.  There are a million different ways to waste your battery faster, and you might find some of it useful.

Check it out. And Thanks Seth.

*This post has been added to Watercooler Wednesday*

iLiberty is a post from: Brody Harper