David Emery Online

Friday Links VII

31 March 2007

Sorry for the radio silence; Thursday went a bit tits-up from a doing-to-much perspective – which would have been fine, as I planned to post twice on Friday to make up for it.

On Friday I had no power all evening, so that went out the window too. Oh well! To get back on track here’s a bumper edition of Friday Links (posted on Saturday):

Apple adds “Complete My Album” to iTunes Store – Nice bit of extra functionality added to the iTunes store, and while they say it’s time limited I’d be surprised if this isn’t eventually a permanent feature.

From Pixels to Plastic, Matt Webb – Matt Webb’s keynote from Etech, containing some very, very interesting ideas (as always).

Sony BMG Tries To Cut Cleaning-Crew Costs By Moving Demo Process Online – Interesting, but ultimately weird and short sighted. It’s like they’ve finally discovered blogs, 5 years after they were really interesting. I do quite like the idea of “Digg for Demos”, though, but that’s not what this is.

The Leaks Come Out At Night: More On The Pre-Release Mini-Controversy – Leaks are a good thing. I don’t understand why there’s a discussion about this, it’s so god-darn obvious. Labels spend all their time trying to get radio plays, videos on MTV, “coverage”, and count how many plays they’ve had on MySpace today, but yet fans listening to the album – going out of their way to download it – is a bad thing?

Interview: George White, SVP, Warner Music Group – Watch as a major label exec despiratly makes himself try and sound relevant and cutting edge, even though they’re doing exactly the same pointless things as everyone else.

Grand Theft Auto IV Trailer – I am so excited; GTA San Andreas is one of my all time favourite games and this like a real step up:

Ridiculously Useful Shortcuts Easily Forgotten – Some keyboard shortcuts even I didn’t know about…

Sim San Francisco – spooky.