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 [...]
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 [...]
Yes, I’m using The Moose to promote my own work again, but this guy is on some next ish — just ask Dave.
Here’s my recent brief-but-fun interview with Cadence Weapon.
Forget about the iPhone G3, this year’s gadget of the year is what I like to call the ‘scratchula‘. Not only does it’s metallic chrome flat surface flip burgers (or veggie burgers) like a normal spatula, it also has jagged sides for scratching and scraping the grill AND a lil’ slot for popping the [...]
This thing seems quite robust and it works on every social network out there apparently.
Muxtape ran into what they called “the prefect storm” yesterday but to their credit they have been open and honest about what went wrong and how difficult it’s been to fix it -
Update #3
“We’ve narrowed down the issue, but we’re triple-checking everything to make sure it doesn’t happen again before we bring the site [...]
Vacuum State of the Art Conference and Show May 24th - 26th, Vancouver, WA. As the name implies what we have here is a show that celebrates the vacuum tube driven amps over their solid state second cousins. [Audiofiles will get that last part.] I’m a supporter, give me a record deck and a tube [...]
The music business is changing rapidly. What do you think is going to happen? “Well, long term, it doesn’t make sense for music to be distributed on physical media. That transition has been going on for seven years and probably will continue for a number of years.”
Was Amazon late to the game in online music [...]