Urban Thought Collective

About Me:

Jaxon Lee works on the bleeding-edge of the tech market in what he considers to be his dream job. He wakes up every morning, and gets to talk to people about the latest and greatest gadgets! During his downtime, he blogs about new technology and media convergence over at um-reloaded.blogspot.com. Jaxon is happily married and living in Atlanta. His “Check The Tech-Nique” column is exclusive to Urban Thought Collective.

In the beginning, there was Old Napster. It was 1999, broadband was new, and music-swapping had just EXPLODED onto the scene via a peer-to-peer application invented by a college student who coined it’s name based on his kinky hair (don’t get me started). Those were the good ole days.

It just hit me today as I was updating my Facebook page. My boss (actually, my boss’s boss) requested Facebook friendship. Hmmm, this could be tricky. Ordinarily I am okay some work-life/personal-life convergence in the online world.

So remember how I was telling you all that stuff about the TV studios embracing Hulu (Fox and NBC sponsored the project), and how they had learned from the music industry’s crippling Napster debacle?

It’s been a long time. I shouldn’t have left you; without a strong rhyme to step to.

In my never ending quest to find great music on the internet, I ended up moving beyond the simple streaming services. Not that I have anything against the staple of internet radio. In fact, as I’ve said before, I’m an avid listener of stations like smoothbeats.com and beatbasement.com. But sometimes I want […]

So, I went back and forth on this latest entry for my Urban Thought Collective blog.
First I was going to review some netbooks (Asus EeePC, Acer One, HP Mini-1000, etc). But a few days later, fresh from setting up my Home Theater PC, I was all set to talk about Boxee and […]

So there I was, standing at the very center of the Obama celebratory hurricane at a club called Sugar Hill in Atlanta’s Underground. A couple of friends and I were crowded around a table, drinking cold light beer, talking about the electoral math, and watching Wolf Blitzer on a 300ft projection screen, along with […]

Well, folks, the other shoe has finally dropped. Google has entered the mobile phone space. The iPhone has its first serious competitor. Allow me to introduce you to the HTC G1.
What’s that you say? You haven’t seen or heard anything about it? Not surprising, as Google is easing into this […]

I would like to extend a heartfelt “thank you” to all of my new readers from Urban Thought Collective! I am sincerely proud and humbled to be a part of this community. Now, on to the tech!
Last time, I gave you an overview of the major players in the coming mobile-phone slugfest that’s about […]

Sounds ominous, right? Well, it should. Most tech shootouts do more harm than good to the consumer. Anybody remember Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD?
Recently, in a test market, smart-phone owners were asked about the capabilities of their phones and how they used them. It was determined that, although the smart-phone owners confidently claimed to […]