March 2009
36 posts
Why music blogs? →
Speaking tomorrow @ 16:00
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The Aviation Hearld →
This is an impressively geeky aggregator of airline incidents, accidents and crashes. So cool (and I am not even a plane geek)!
“The real advantage of writing for online is being able to escape from the...”
– Tall Tales And True : Mess+Noise (via buyhercandy)
This is why music blogs rock!
A Coming Paradigm Shift in (Online) Music?
This is a naturally unpopular but important point. Bonus points will be awarded for saying this on a panel at a music conference.
continuations:
Of course one immediate question about such a new paradigm is how artists will make money. I think it would be a grave mistake to be caught up in that question. For starters, it seems to me that over the course of history very little of what we now...
“I had a conversation this morning where I was told: [music] discovery is one of...”
– Jason’s take on music recommenders & more
Notes from the "Help! My iPod Thinks I'm Emo!"...
Here are some notes from my part of the talk. Paul Lamere may share some soon too, he naturally disagrees :)
WHAT IF THERE IS NO DISCOVERY ALGORITHM? Current music recommendation systems have tons of serious issues: they don’t properly incorporate long tail content, fail in offering anything close to serendipity, and get even more confused by divisive content (see the ratings for Napoleon...
Everyone Wants Something for Nothing: Last.fm's... →
Last.fm is planning to charge listeners from outside US, UK and Germany for the ability to listen to their radio streams.
Naturally, this prompted a bout of angry feedback, but the bottom line is quite simple: If you actually liked the service and you are wealthy enough to stream Internet radio in any part of the world (this is a big deal), you can find €3.00/mo for the service.
Help! My iPod Thinks I'm Emo! →
Slides from the talk I did with Paul Lamere at SXSW. Also known as the music recommender smackdown :)
iPod Emo Panel gets Guardian coverage! →
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“No money means no content. That is the way the labels (major and independent)...”
– Justin Kniest, CEO of FabChannel.com [kickass archive of live show video] which is shutting down. This is a very interesting read. (via Taylor)
Why won't Dropbox and Drop.io fail?
Like their brothers in arms from 2000? (Xdrive and the general wasteland of storage services)
Other than marginal tech and usability improvements, slightly better broadband availability, what’s really different this time around in the consumer storage space?
Seems like history repeating itself from the outside, though I presume those guys know things I don’t.
Do you know?
Playlist.io →
I think my Internet is stuck on repeat. Help!
THRU YOU - Kutiman mixes YouTube →
Wow: Remix culture FTW (via Stan)
“I love music blogs because they’re music fans. They’re authentic and passionate...”
– Terry McBride on music blogs in the interview with Rollo & Grady.
“Everybody with the “sup dawg” shit can find the highest place in...”
– Xzibit comments on the meme in 140 characters. I don’t even care if this is real or not, it’s badass.
