David Emery OnlineplasticbagUK: Books are indulgent...
Books are indulgent, wasteful, bad for the environment, burdens, are bought for display and have nothing to do with a love of reading.
Quoted for truth.
Reading does not mean reading books.
Listening to music does not mean playing a CD or record.
If you associate the two together so be it, but they’re not one and the same thing.
Visit ➔typeface.js
Instead of creating images or using flash just to show your site’s graphic text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and write in plain HTML and CSS, just as if your visitors had the font installed locally. This is a work in progress, but functional enough at least to render the the graphic text on this site.
Looks like it be a viable alternative to sIFR, and seems to load a bit quicker too.
Visit ➔AC/DC Music Video Distributed as Excel Spreadsheet
They decided on this unusual format because they wanted the video to penetrate even the most Draconian corporate firewalls. After all, who can’t receive an Excel spreadsheet?
Obviously a gimmick, but quite an amusing one.
Visit ➔Arrows of Eros by The Golden Silvers
Very promising... From http://www.goldensilvers.co.uk/mp3/
Arrows of Eros by The Golden Silvers
Visit ➔4ad Audio Player
To match the Rough Trade audio player, we’ve just launched one for the 4ad site. It’s currently got 3 of the best tracks released this year on it, all available as MP3s and all well worth listening to:
Visit ➔Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
The current big blog buzz band - definitely worth a listen. From http://pastaprima.net/?p=979 via hypem.comPassion Pit - Sleepyhead Visit ➔
Foals - Super Unuit (Holy Fuck Cover)
From http://www.likesounds.com/2008/10/13/foals-holy-fuck-covers/ (via hypem.com)Foals - Super Unuit (Holy Fuck Cover) Visit ➔
Huffduffer
Using the service is pretty straightforward. First of all, you have to sign up. No, I haven’t implemented OpenID support. Sorry. I hope to get around to it at some stage.
Secondly, you find MP3 files out there on the web. Using either a bookmarklet, or a form on the site itself, you “huffduff” the file: give it a title, description, and tags.
That’s pretty much it. People can subscribe to your podcast and you can subscribe to other people’s podcasts. You can also subscribe to a podcast of files with a certain tag or a combination of files from a particular person with a particular tag. Basically, if there’s a page for it on the site, there’s probably a corresponding podcast you can subscribe to.
Very nice way of automatically creating a podcast feed out of MP3s you find on the web – think Delicious but just for audio. Perfect for micro-mp3 blogging – I think I’ll integrate my Huffduffer feed into this main blog feed when I get a chance…
More info on Jeremy’s Blog.
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