September 2009
50 posts
Wednesday Mailbag
A user from Switzerland writes in about our Coke ad campaign running today:
“Hosting ads by Coca Cola and other big companies is a shame.
You disappoint me and i won’t use your site anymore. I thought you were close to the alternative world, but you're just plain capitalists. F*ck the corporate world!!!!!!!!
PS. I have to enter the word “revolution” below to...
Sometimes I think the Hype Machine is actually a...
Name: […] E-mail: […]@yahoo.com Subject: Business stuff Message: Hi - I think i might be the biggest fan of this website. I promote this to all of my fellow music lovers. If you need promotional support in Chicago I am all ears. Your biggest fan. […]
We all play keyboards.
Another German group tries to clone Threadless,... →
They’ve got both of the product lines covered too with Shirtcity (http://shirtcity.com) and Scribtee (http://scribtee.com). In the about section, the CEO shows his passion by answering the prompt “To me Shirtcity means…” with: “…Innovation. Shirtcity is a complex system that is always changing in new ways. It’s ambitious and attractive.”
I hope...
Who is the Chainsaw Records of today?
catbird:
fascinated:
In today’s liberating Internet age, who is comparable to Chainsaw Records in the ethos, focus and execution?
To elaborate just a bit, I think that the whole core concept of your question has to do with that ethos part more than anything else. It’s about not being self-aggrandizing, or desperately chasing popularity, or jockeying hard for hits and pageviews, or moving...
Who is the Chainsaw Records of today?
Just read about Chainsaw Records (site), a zine-turned-indie/queer-label of the early 90s. They may have invented the genre ‘queercore’, but were also the label that released the first two records by Sleater-Kinney, which is badass.
In today’s liberating Internet age, who is comparable to Chainsaw Records in the ethos, focus and execution?
I know of just a handlful (focusing...
Businesses I'm Thankful Not To Be In
marco:
The music business.
There are some upsides. :)
Earlimart - Happy Alone
This is eerie in how much...
The Reporter’s Account: 4 Days With the Taliban →
Holy shit (via Alex)
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and...”
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who knew about evil, expressing what I consider an axiom of realist morality to be believed even when one perceives evil in a group as surely as one perceives light. (From Self Doubt) (via mills)
“In fact consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers...”
– Paul Graham’s Post-Medium Publishing essay has some good thoughts.
“There are different species of laziness: Eastern and Western. The Eastern style...”
– Sogyal Rinpoche, via Caterina: Being Lazy by doing too much (via zachklein)
On Integrity & Advertising (the Hype Machine Blog) →
Some thoughts on recent ad campaigns we’ve ran on the Hype Machine & integrity
Link to OMGPOP games on your blog or site for...
omgpop:
We want your help in spreading the word about OMGPOP!
If you link to the games on OMGPOP on your blog or website, we’ll hook you up with coins!
500 coins for each game link to be exact.
Here are the 10 links that are available, you can post all 11 for the full 5500 coins, or just a couple of your favorite games. Try to mention your OMGPOP name if you can, it’ll help make sure others...
Trentemøller - Miss You (Trentemøller Remix -...
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be...”
– Albert Einstein (via 37signals, superamit, davemorin, mikehudack)
“… I find myself thinking of a checklist [Piotr] Wozniak wrote a few years...”
– Gary Wolf on Piotr Wozniak’s & his SuperMemo learning methodology. (April 2008)
Meet Nick Gray, Thrower of ‘Culturally... →
oats:
written by Doree Shafrir
“I go to the Hype Machine regularly. At least a few times a week and many times...”
– Fred Wilson in Don’t Forget About Email on our personalized newsletters
“We are introduced to lots of new music through XL and Young Turks— they...”
– Jamie from The XX in Pitchfork Guest Lists: 2000s Edition (via J)
“Do you know the story of how John Lennon met Yoko Ono?
He went to a...”
– Derek Sivers on climbing ladders and how one shouldn’t stop. The man glows with inspiration.
“But it’s easy. Look at Hype Machine (hypem.com) to begin with: in the top...”
– Nick Hornby in the Observer on discovering music blogs & the Hype Machine.
Yeah, this Nick Hornby. (via Dev)
New music and shows from the Hype Machine →
Here’s what our newsletter looks like if you use the Hype Machine a bunch
GQ's Banned Article on Putin's Ascent (via... →
Gawker has a post up with an article about how Putin (& friends) was potentially behind the terrorist attacks that bombed a number residential buildings all over Russia, while blaming it on the Chechens, creating fear and shifting power.
GQ became worried and decided not to publish the issue with this article in Russia, so Gawker published and translated most of the article to keep it...
Market grill = fish win
“This allows the authors … to claim, for example, that “the Soviet Union...”
– New Russian textbooks remix history. Orwell would be proud. This isn’t the first time, of course. I too, have studied from a freshly minted textbook in 1995 that had interesting things to say about the recently dissolved government.
More here: An Enlightened Way to Distort Soviet History...
