April 2008
22 posts
The Difference Between Recording Companies and...
I present to you a universe where the following two things can happen in the very same week: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sues playlist aggregator Project Playlist. Media company Viacom dangles the carrot in front of music blog aggregator Hype Machine. Honestly, just when I think things are getting pretty damn good, they seem to get even better!
How To Incite Pandemonium: A Step By Step Guide
Step 1: Initiate a kick ass show by The Uptones. Step 2: “One Hundered Bucks!” Step 3: Pandemonium. All photos by Jake Small
Resnikoff Knows These Are Interesting Times
“May you live in interesting times.” Though some believe this saying to be some sort of a curse, perhaps no other quote has conjured up so many images of vast opportunity for me. Anyway. Paul Resnikoff penned a brilliant screed in Resnikoff’s Parting Shot. Yes, it’s true… the major labels no longer can survive the way they are. Victims of disruptive change. We know....
“Kerris was the first person to show Keith Richards an iPod.” I said ‘This can...”
– The Set List: Rolling Stones Techie Shines A Light On Mick’s Love Of The iPod (via bijan)
Have Passport - Will Travel
I must publicly laud the US Passport Office for delivering my new passport in near-record time. I didn’t even expedite the thing, and it was delivered to my door 7 days after I turned in my application. 7 DAYS! This has to be some sort of new record. So now I have my official papers updated and ready to be used. All I need now are some airline tickets to exotic destinations with killer...
Clive Pushed Aside - The Weiss Era Begins at Sony...
I guess this week has been so busy that Monday’s news slipped past me. Clive Davis is being pushed aside. Talk about the end of an era. Perhaps we’re getting closer to the start of a new one. The “new guy” at Sony BMG sounds like he’s on the right track: Mr. Weiss, 49, who also personally oversees many of his artists’ creative decisions, has enjoyed his share of...
“You are the music while the music lasts.”
– T. S. Eliot
Sunday Run, April 20th, 2008
Why I live in California.
Tempting!
fascinated: It’s tempting to publish the names and addresses of all the music PR, marketing and management firms who’ve written emails to The Hype Machine that clearly show their lack of understanding of the project, the Internet, different Internet media, blogs and what happens to music on blogs. Given that it is exactly this kind of knowledge that those agencies advertise as their value, I am...
New MP3 Jackpot Widget!
Got the new, skinnier MP3 Jackpot widget working and dropped it in the rotation today. Thanks to our friends at awesome music blog Swedelife for being one of the first to put it up. I took a cue and deployed it on this humble page. Midget steps on the widget steps for now. But soon… much more. Yes. Much much much much more.
“People participate in their own illusions…Magic is possible because...”
– Modern Magic and the Meaning of Life by Adam Gopnik
The Sun Sets On Celia's
Ah, Celia. Looks like your hours are numbered. They’re gonna knock the old girl down really really soon. The demolition barrier is up around her and the tractors are parked outside, ready to use their giant claws to rip her apart, piece by piece. I enjoyed many absolutely perfect Top Shelf margs at this place. And I can never forget all those lunches that Din and I enjoyed in between...
“They’re gonna freak the fuck out when they get the keytar!”
– A Reddit commenter on China’s modernization
Who Came Up With This Stunt?
Just when you think you’ve seen it all (via Le Blog Moto) These people make NASCAR look like a sane group of folks.
Russia In The '60's
Our Music Player Has Improved My Life!
Seriously. I’m listening to a stream of all my posts on my MP3 4U page through the new player and I’m totally entertained. It’s like having an unlimited and always-living history of all the music I’ve found over the years. Listening to songs posted by other sources while flipping through the sites and not having the music stop playing is such a major improvement. ...
"Huh? Who's this label called FUN FUN FUN?"
Look who’s being played at KALX lately. Totally psyched the fine folks at KALX are diggin Skankin’ Foolz Unite.
From a VC: "We Need A New Path To Liquidity"
Entertaining musings from Fred Wilson - a frustrated venture capitalist. Was Fred in the waiting room on South Park this week looking for his “theoretical” money?
Debug IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and...
This tool looks promising. Dealing with IE compatability issues has gotta be the numero uno bummer about being involved with the web. I can’t wait for the day when tools like this are like COBOL applicatons – history.
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Global Web Stats
Read ‘em and weep. IE6 will go down as the worst thing that mankind bestowed upon mankind. Designers, fear not: at least screen resolution is going up!
Fake Steve Jobs on Google
Fake Steve nails it. My favorite quote:“There is something really evil about taking thousands of the world’s smartest young people and using them to sell online text ads more efficiently. Really. Think of all the really interesting and important things that this pool of brainpower could be addressing.” Bingo.