October 2010
53 posts
Lykke Li - Get Some
This exploded onto the blogs...
Stats don't support hype: Digital music is ailing →
Greg Sandoval comments on David Hyman’s (MOG) response to Dalton Caldwell’s excellent cautionary music startup talk.
Good analysis.
When was the last full day you remember not checking Tumblr?
“If as many people really listened to Joy Division as list them on their Facebook...”
– Trent Reznor on Why Facebook “Sucks” / Music News // Drowned In Sound (via drownedinsoundcloud)
“The Internet has a citizenry. Like how some people self identify has...”
– Xianhang Zhang on Internet communities at a macro level
Some debatable analogies aside, this is an interesting way to think of why Internet culture exists and works in the way that it does.
Watchmoth:
IAC HQ Projection Mapped by Seeper
A few moments from last night’s amazing projection by Seeper (@seeperarts) on the side of the IAC building, for the Vimeo Awards. I love that I could shoot and edit this in HD, then blog it here, all on my phone.
I’m sure the whole performance will be all over Vimeo and Tumblr later today.
WatchBen Frost - Híbakúsja, performed with an orchestra.
WHOA (via Sean)
“We build products that 500 million people see… If 5 million people see a movie,...”
– Mark Zuckerberg on “The Social Network” (via mashablehq) – oh, he did say that? (via sebastianwaters)
The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their... →
“There will be no new players of significance to enter the business. Investors don’t want to entertain the remotest possibility of funding any start-up that deals with music, no matter how clever and innovative. As one major media venture firm told me a few months ago, they’re tired of writing cheques for big advances to record labels.”
I disagree. While it is true that most...
“Inside every copy of Belle and Sebastian’s new album Write About Love is a...”
– This is the best album promotion contest I’ve ever seen.
Chris and I were just talking about this, and he’s right — it’d be funny if Morrissey did a similar type of contest in which he would end up writing a very mean-spirited song about the winner.
(via perpetua)
“Скажи-ка, дядя, ведь не даром
Москва, спаленная пожаром,
Французу отдана?...”
– Twice while in South America, I was asked to recite some Russian poetry. It turned out that I was woefully unprepared.
Need to brush up on some before I go back to Argentina!
This one is Borodino by Lermontov (see full), about the battle for Moscow with the French, in the war of 1812.
Mount Kimbie Podcast at XLR8R →
More Captchart at Something Awful →
Also here.
Mount Kimbie - Mayor
Arkadiy and Dev both were...
Enabling Google's AJAX Crawling Convention on...
Google has a spec for making AJAX applications crawlable via the “#!” notation in the URLs. One way to prepare your app for this is to perform the required conversions on the web server rewrite level.
To do that in nginx, put this in the server {} context of your config:
if ($args ~ “_escaped_fragment_=(.+)”) {
set $real_url $1;
...
“People will focus on activities other than fighting and killing one another only...”
– Jaron Lanier, You are Not a Gadget (kindle loc. 1421) a cynical take on human progress as a whole, but I find it difficult to disagree.
Ultra Light Startups: Bootstrapped to Millions of... →
Speaking on a panel about bootstrapping with Spencer Fry, Danny Wen and Anthony Casalena on October 7th!
Come join us!
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via hapticblog)
Classic.
Milton Glaser: 10 Things I Have Learned →
This is a great list, always happy to stumble into it again.