April 2009
46 posts
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Eugene Blacknell - The Trip Superfunky horns on...
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Coconut Records - Microphone Nice, mellow way to...
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Donald Byrd - Flight Time
The great Donald Byrd,...
Telling the Brutal Truth →
“The choice of a single word involved separate deliberations in New York and the Washington bureau and demonstrated the linguistic minefields that journalists navigate every day in the quest to describe the world accurately and fairly.
Interesting piece from the Times Public Editor today about how important semantics can be, especially when dealing with issues like torture.
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Julie Doiron - Consolation Prize Have had this...
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Vampire Weekend - Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac cover)...
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Dirty Projectors - Remade Horizon
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Stephen Stills - Rock and Roll Crazies/Cuban...
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Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Addis...
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Sharon Jones - This Land is Your Land This just...
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The Future of Money: DIY Currencies →
“When the developed world gets over its bias for “printing press–era cash technology” then complementary currencies will be commonplace here too, Rushkoff predicts. He sees a future that has people literally reprogramming their economic systems, using computer networks and handheld devices to administer new forms of grassroots cash. Those currencies could be almost anything:...
“Metadata is worldview; sorting is a political act.”
– The Failure of #amazonfail « Clay Shirky (via fred-wilson)
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DM Stith - Pity Dance Gorgeous, LoFi noise.
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Elton John - My Father’s Gun I vaguely...
“Incumbents very seldom invent the future.”
– Eric Schmidt, as quoted by Maureen Dowd Dinosaur at the Gate
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Bob Dylan - Huck’s Tune
Just when I think...
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The A.P. Was the First Web 2.0 Company →
“For more than a century The Associated Press has been the apotheosis of the reuse and remix principles that drove the Web 2.0 movement. The A.P. has been an essential ingredient in the success of many Web sites. Indeed, if it didn’t exist, I imagine a lot of Internet companies would want to create a news-gathering cooperative of their own. What would be different is that a news association...
Why Engaget is Blocking the Diggbar →
“In our opinion, the DiggBar takes Digg’s approach to news gathering and dissemination one step too far. By hijacking URLs, they complicate an end-user’s experience on our site, and from a publishing standpoint, we think it’s a step backwards to mask the content you’re visiting with shortened URLs from an unrelated site.”
In the longterm, companies that think about balancing their...
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Lou Reed - Perfect Day (acoustic demo) Oh...
Did Frank Zappa Come Up With A Business Plan For... →
Anyone who questions Frank Zappa as a visionary should go read this. Here’s a snippet:
“The consumer has the option of subscribing to one or more Interest Categories, charged at a monthly rate, without regard for the quantity of music he or she decides to tape.
Providing material in such quantity at a reduced cost could actually diminish the desire to duplicate and store it,...
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Etta James - If You Want Me to Stay (Sly Stone...
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The Funky Monkeys - Ma Nishtanah (The Four...
“if you piss off enough of your readers you won’t have them anymore. If you make...”
– Eric Schmidt at Newspaper Association of America conference
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Orchestra di Perez Prado - Circle Hmmm, pure...
I love this band…
newspeedwayboogie:
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Stephane Wrembel Trio (w David Grisman) -...
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Black Mountain - Wild Wind Sometimes we all need...
Hadn’t heard this one before. This guy is...
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Josh Rouse - Chloe Dancer (Mother Love Bone cover)...
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The Beastie Boys - Sure Shot I’ve Got The...
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Silversun Pickups - The Royal We
Got a sneak...
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