Living in httpspace is pretty cool. I seem to have boundless energy as well as an un-ending desire to spout quotes as if they have been defined in some kind of nerdy array. “I rule!”. Damnit, there I go again.
The last thing i remember was running the wildwood trail in Forest Park/Portland, OR. I must [...]
Starting today, Rhapsody launches a new DRM-free, MP3 downloading service and they’ve also partnered with iLike, MTV Networks and Yahoo. The new service obviously challenges Apple’s iTunes service as Apple sticks to its allegiance to DRM on behalf of the record companies. And given that you can preview an entire MP3 file before you buy [...]
So, Johnny Penn and Aaron Aujla aka, Bikini, took note of my submission policy, that means they win the top spot. For multiple reasons actually - 1. I like their laid back electro beats and pulses. 2. They sent in a jpeg along with the MP3s. 3. They’re good. And 4. They made my day [...]
Help me with my math! I gave a talk yesterday at U of O, as I mention in the last post, and one of my slides was about how as of March 08 iTunes had sold 170 million iPods according to Wikipedia. As of last September Apple said it had sold 2 billion songs. Apple [...]
No design group has mastered the art of creepy better than we fail. Check out their latest for singer Juilan Velard. Its pretty nifty how the cue cards are synced to the lyrics. The real fun begins when you hit the exploration tab and are presented with the opening scene from Lost in Translation.
Lastly i’m [...]
For musicians, 1000 true fans may be the way to lift their sales and therefore their careers out of the flat plains of the Long Tail. Looking for information about 1000 fans, I entered ‘1000 friends’ as a search term in Google - it returned 12.2 million results. Here are the Google results.
In this [...]
Portland band, Hockey, in a social networking environment.
I have some homework for those of you who like to read. Having been on many conference panels in my time, attempting to inform musicians and others about the value of using the Internet for marketing, my research led me to notice how the online social networks and [...]
Our favorite Talking Head, David Byrne, turns an entire old building in New York City into a giant sound machine in an installation called “Playing the Building.” Xeni Jardin takes a tour for bOING bOING TV.
Under David’s manipulation, New York’s hundred-year-old Battery Maritime Building becomes a giant sound sculpture. He explains:
Devices [have been] attached to [...]