October 2008
77 posts
Amazing stats on music performance royalties →
It was recently announced that performance royalties are now a bigger source of income for artists than record sales. My good friend and colleague Pursehouse gets down and dirty with some number crunching:
Chris Brown was at number 40 in the charts this week (week ending 43) thanks to shifting 4,658 downloads of his instantly forgettable ‘Superhuman’ song. If he’d have distributed that though...
“Personally, I’m outraged that, yet again, the joyless fuckers who write...”
– Wise words from Noel Gallagher on what Wikipedia is calling “the Russell Brand Show prank telephone calls row”.
Emmy the Great - Where Is My Mind?
Simply...
Rat fact! →
Found this pretty interesting: apparently, the rat is the only animal that the SAS (UK equivalent of the Green Berets) are banned from eating under any circumstances.
No matter how starving hungry a solder may be, no matter how down-trodden and wounded from serving his country, rats are just too plague-ridden to be consumed by humans. Although I’ve gotta admit, you’d have to be...
“Turns out, it’s not a good idea to hire 20 software engineers, 3...”
– Spoof of the now-infamous Sequoia Capital memo
Steve Pavlina on dropping AdSense, from which he... →
(via marco)
Great blogger, and a brave man. I’m not sure I could give up $100k/year so easily.
About me →
After putting it off for a long while, I’ve finally got around to updating the “about me” page on my Wordpress blog. If you’ve been following me on Tumblr for a while and wanna know who the hell I am, go and have a look. It shows me as the wonderful human being that I strive to be.
The Hold Steady - Your Little Hoodrat Friend
Been...
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of...”
– Plato
(via affremblequotes)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-26) →
Missy Elliott
ABBA
Jay-Z
Bee Gees
Eminem
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“But by far the easiest thing you can do, is convince yourself that you used to...”
– Dunno who originally said this, but riazm quoted it, and never a truer word has been spoken.
Lightspeed Champion - Tell Me What It’s...
“So you can, for example, set up an auto response that replies to emails from...”
– New Gmail feature lets users create “canned responses” to emails.
I wonder what the effect would be if someone made this for Tumblr?
A non-anonymous Unfollow Friday…imagine the bitching.
“The day Apple makes iTunes wholly DRM free I predict I’ll be bankrupt within the...”
– Pursehouse responds to this Popjustice post on the fate of the single in the digital age with the vigour that only a truly passionate music fan can. I salute you, Sir.
Entire TV channel shows nothing but a roaring fire... →
A Canadian friend just told me about this. I’m half amazed, half bemused.
The fact that it carries no advertising also confuses my well-developed business mind.
Time to whore my Twitter presence, methinks... →
Follow me. Go on. I’m ever so witty. I tweet about music a lot. And make insightful comments on current events. It’s quite brilliant really.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-19) →
BBC 6 Music
Rihanna
BBC World Service
Radio Lingua Network
www.nyub.net
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Coolness fail.
John McCain’s use of the “Gonna Fly Now” theme from Rocky at a campaign rally.
Cliché and self-parody FTW?
Copycat →
Original and best.
Wiley - “Wot U Call It”
Everyone...
“Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.”
– Socrates
Admittedly, I’m not reading Plato’s “Republic”, but watching Ricky Gervais’s “Fame”, where he quotes the above.
Should’ve lied. I’d have looked much more intellectual.
Pelican - “City of Echoes”
Seven...
Buy a weapons-grade flamethrower on Amazon! →
fatmanatee says:
(Not really, it’s viral marketing for Far Cry 2, a videogame coming out soon)
Great marketing idea. I love how companies are getting a bit post-modern with their online advertising now and messing with the actual structure and fabric of online services that we’re used to (see also), rather than just boring old “stick the TV ad on YouTube”.
(Wonder how many...
$10,000 Blogging Scholarship →
Wish this was around for UK students a couple of years ago when I was in college and first started putting my hastily scrawled reviews of unknown indie bands up online. They’re worth five thousand quid, surely?
“The Bush administration, having entered office as social conservatives, leaves...”
– “Best Sentence I Read Today” on Marginal Revolution
“The economic situation is apparently so grim that some experts fear we may be in...”
– Paul Graham - Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
Open source software will never hit mainstream...
…until OpenOffice/NeoOffice etc. manage to develop an accurate real time word-count function.
This is basic stuff folks.
Just saying.
“The future of artist presence of the web is not in an all-in-one premium web...”
– Opentape
I’m a big open-source advocate, and Opentape is great. But I’m not sure the above is true - I think community is vital to online music, so to some extent social networks (or similar) are a must. Not every artist can have a stand-alone presence.
I’d love to be proven...
November 4th? Nah, December 2nd is the *real*... →
;-)
After 24 hours...
OpenOffice 3 for Mac > NeoOffice
“I think the BBC we have known, for good or worse, is now in its last stages.”
– Aunty Beeb’s world affairs editor John Simpson
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-12) →
Louis XIV
Calexico
Esser
Solid Steel
Oasis
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz