April 2008
65 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-27) →
John Scofield
Brad Mehldau
Kaki King
Bonobo
The Books
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Apple to get license for Haptic technology? →
Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone
A recent Engadget post suggests that Apple may be licensing haptic (or force-feedback) technology for the iPhone; this would allow users to ‘feel’…
A Poem About The Internet
kfan: Do not stop to think or edit You must be the first who said it. Poignant, see my post below.
I can’t wait until a new company launches to help me aggregate all of my friendfeed, minggl, and plaxo accounts!
“My complaint of socialism is not that it has appeared among us without cause, but that it has clung so long and so obstinately to its silliness.” - P. J. Proudhon
Music Vest Commercial →
jakoblodwick: “First there was the transistor radio, then the headphones. Now…” Can’t believe this hasn’t caught on….yet
Sad American - Kaki King from her new album...
“In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties,...”
– The New Yorker: Up and Then Down: The lives of elevators (via gtmcknight)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-20) →
Van Morrison
Devendra Banhart
Bonobo
Vampire Weekend
The Velvet Underground
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Found the Afikomen!
Tempting!
jakoblodwick: 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...
Vertical (Diagonal?) Farm from Work AC in NYC :... →
No updates for this day. All your digestees must be sick of Twittering.
Intelligence Squared NPR Podcast
On the way home last night I treated myself to the Intelligence Squared podcast. Intelligence Squared is a program that features academics in a debate-style format. Last night the topic was “Does Aid do more harm than good?” and guests like William Easterly weighed in. The entire program was a little lengthy so I didn’t make it all the way through, but I found it quite engaging....
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll...”
– Howard Aiken quoted by Paul Graham in “Why There Aren’t More Googles” (via fred-wilson)
listen.grooveshark.com →
artistspaid: gtmcknight: Really, really tight UI guys. Well done! Very nice
A Speech About Nothing - New York Times →
I am always drawn to Brooks’ pessimism.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-13) →
Bonobo
Lauryn Hill
Phish
John Scofield
Chick Corea
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Free Idea #3
artistspaid: aaronwhite: Tumblr is at odds with itself: it encourages site customization, but the dashboard encourages a workflow which nullifies any of that effort. The problem is broader: I consume most sites through my RSS reader, which has the same effect. I can easily imagine an RSS reader that has news items on the left, and a browser view on the right. While I speed through my RSS...
“…you can also tweak the volume by holding down the option + shift keys and...”
– Mac 101: fine tune your Mac’s volume - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Tip of the day!
“It’s like there’s two codes in America. The establishment, what you’re supposed...”
– Bob Lefsetz (via jakoblodwick)
Citizen Kane
gtmcknight: I know it was supposed to be good. So much, in fact, that I’ve kept the DVD around despite it being over a month late at the library (factoid: Gainesville’s library charges *no* late fees, which deserves it’s own post on social motivations). Finally sat down and watched it alone tonight (nobody else wanted to watch it with me, and my mom falling asleep 5 minutes in I won’t count). ...
Great song - really getting into Bonobo
Two good reads
“iPhone users are the perfect group to launch the network to. They’re passionate and elitist, and will like the idea of being in an iPhone-only club. Go to a party and see a picture and first name of everyone there who’s holding an iPhone - then meet them and add them as friends. Then, once mutual friendship is established, see those people wherever they are in the world, along with presence...
Podcasts
I love Bloomberg on the Economy. If you’re looking for a new podcast, check it out. Fascinating economic analysis from the county’s leading academics, and not too difficult to follow if you’ve taken basic macro.
The Reblog
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the reblog. Tumblr seems to have captured something unique. The reputation system that they invoke isn’t like others that work all they can to pull the user in and not let go. On tumblr for instance, the user is never notified when someone follows them, nor when someone reblogs their post. Tumblr doesnt go out of its way to hand out reputation...
“And out there somewhere
And your feet can only walk down two kinds of roads...”
– Bob Dylan: Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie Pulitzer Prize today, one of my favorites
Tax Dollars & Pork
bijan: Yesterday I was talking to my dad about the craziness when it comes to how our tax dollars work. We all pay our share of taxes. Some more than others. But it ends up being a vast vast sum of money. Somehow we have allowed ourselves to sit by while public teachers are underpaid, while mininum wage is practically a joke, social services have been cut etc etc. At the same time we have...
Pitchfork.tv →
jakoblodwick: Why Pitchfork TV is good: It gives you the music, unlike Pitchfork.com, which gives you verbose reviews and meaningless numerical scores. The video is big, high quality, and starts playing immediately. The navigation doesn’t interrupt the video; it’s a seamless experience. They have carefully curated the good stuff (instead of a super-warehouse of thousands of videos). It is “an...
John Adams is blogging and tumbling from the dead
bijan: I just mentioned John Adams in my post earlier today and now I find out that John Adams is using Tumblr from the grave and it’s quite funny. The blog is about John Adams’s view on current events (and no, it’s not me). Silicon Alley Insider links to the late Presidents observation on the Microsoft/Yahoo news of the day. I thought this post from John Adams was really funny. It’s call from...
“digital album art and promotional materials should blow their physical...”
– Digitization Of Album Art Is About New Possibilities, Not Smaller Graphics | Listening Post from Wired.com (via yvynyl) (via artistspaid) Very cool notion. Why does album “art” have to be limited to a tiny square?
