David Emery OnlineLast.fm: The Next Generation
I think the new version of Last.fm looks and feels a lot better then the outdated, slightly haphazard old one. The comments on this post are massively revealing, however – people really (really) don’t like change.
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No, of course blogging is not dead. It’s almost like saying writing is dead. No, what might be seeing something of a decline is this concept of ‘rockstar’ blogging – your Scoble’s; your Kottke’s; your Denton’s.
Blogging has gone mainstream, and the rockstars just aren’t relevant anymore.
Visit ➔Regarding Me.com
For a mass-market orientated web service such as MobileMe, not fully supporting any form of the most popular web browser is pretty poor form, isn’t it? Sure, I think you can just about get away with it if you’re a niche start-up aiming at early adopters, but not when you’re selling your product in cardboard boxes in retail stores.
Lazy arrogance, pure and simple.
(Oh and Ben, would you please finish your site? It. Hurts. My. Eyes.)
Visit ➔Total chaos mars UK iPhone launch
Very much mirrors my experience – I got to my local O2 store at about 7:50 to be greeted by a queue of people about 70 strong, with a couple of O2 employees looking like they’d expected 2 or 3. I gave up empty handed after about half an hour when it became clear that they both didn’t have enough iPhones and their systems had crashed – in the half an hour I was their they managed to process 5 people.
The queue:
TechDouche
I couldn’t agree more. I am sick and tired of the continual ridiculous posts about music appearing on TechCrunch; I appreciate that Michael Arrington has a certain point of view on the topic, but he obviously has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about.
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The (gradual) return of Tom Vek and other such stories
Tom Vek is one of those odd artists that seems to have almost completely disappeared. His debut album – We Have Sound – came out way back in 2005 and was quite extraordinary; you don’t get such confident and imaginative records every day, and you certainly don’t expect such a tour de force from a debut.
It’s an album that is without filler, so choosing tracks to highlight is difficult, but Nothing But Green Lights – the last single off the album – is as good a place to start as any:
And then; nothing.
3 years down the line and hardly a peep – a solitary ‘Tom continues to work on the follow up to 2005 debut “We Have Sound”’ message on his website and vague rumours that a new album is done but facing record company problems is all we have to go on. The only ray of hope (quickly extinguished) was the appearance of a track on the GTA IV soundtrack. It was the traditional “hey, I wonder what this is – it sounds a bit like Tom Vek”...
Read more ➔Top five musical crimes perpetrated by record store customers in the 90s and 2000s
Pretty nicely sums up why I don’t like going in indie record stores. They should be some form of capitalist urban mecca to me, full of interest and discovery, but instead they’re intimidating and impenetrable.
The Greatest Bug of All
A great insight into the world of coding and bug hunting – well worth a read if you’re not a coder and want a glimpse behind the curtain.
Visit ➔Nonesuch Records
Nonesuch Records have just launched a new site, and very good it is too – really love the clarity of information (that is so often missed on record label sites). While I’m at it, take a look at the new Domino Records site – the design is maybe not quite as nice, but the use of colour is lovely and I particularly like the user controlled ‘status’ at the top.
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