January 2009
69 posts
Jonathan is listening to In Utero, and feels 15. →
All-time top side-A, track-one songs →
Great Reddit thread. I immediately thought “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, but there are some much better/more original suggestions.
The technical story of Muxtape
Via one of the site’s developers, tlvx. I’m not a coder, but it’s an interesting piece from a Ruby vs PHP point of view.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-25) →
Leonard Bernstein: London Symphony Orchestra (13)
Leonard Bernstein: New York Philharmonic Orchestra (10)
Saul Williams (4)
BBC 6 Music (3)
We Are Enfant Terrible (2)
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“The buzz about Obama’s BlackBerry replacement is ‘almost as exciting as...”
– The Times
For God’s sake…
“Just because you go to lots of networking events in the London web2 community,...”
– Comment on a Guardian article about TrustedPlaces.com
I like Trusted Places and think it’s a good site, but there’s probably a lot of truth in this quote when applied to other businesses.
Predictions for the Brit Awards →
Great piece from one of my ever-witty colleagues:
So did you see the big news the other day? One humble figure stood in front of an awaiting audience who were experiencing a whole concoction of emotions due to the pure expectation weighted on the words to be spoken with such passion and vigour from the now voice of a generation.
Yes, Fearne Cotton announced the Brit Awards nominations last...
“Building a business exclusively on top of another service is irresponsible and...”
– Marco on the fact that “Twitter is not public infrastructure”
This is the problem I’ve always had with whole companies that do nothing but (say) produce Facebook applications…great post Marco.
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really...”
– Steve Jobs (via soupsoup)
PARTICIPATE IN MY SOCIAL EXPERIMENT
davidtrawin says:
This is an experiment on SNAP decision making. Judgements you make in a quick time frame before you have a change to really think of it — the immediate gut reaction you get from something.
Here’s how it goes: Listen to THIS song and reblog with the first 3 words you think about. It could be anything it remeinds you of, emotions, places, people - whatever.
The Key is not to...
Download the new Groove Armada tracks →
Really interested in this new spin on music promotion by the dance act. Yet to see how well it’ll work, and I’m not sure it’s the most user-friendly implementation, but it’s pretty cool nonetheless. (The link above takes you to a page where you can download the first track “from me”).
The BBC sez:
The first track is available to download for free from the...
“When it comes to big live events with millions of people watching at the same...”
– TechCrunch on watching the inauguration online
</BUSH> <OBAMA>
I'm sure anything worth reading / looking at on...
So not following it.
Jonathan is fairly happy today. What "blue... →
“Is Techcrunch a blog anymore? Or did it just become a consumer electronics...”
– Scobleizer: Manufacturing is changing with us
“Top amongst the complaints is low pay relative to what they could earn...”
– Why Google Employees Quit
5 counter-intuitive rules for creative people →
Give good ideas away
Fail more
Play, don’t work
Don’t get things done
Get riskier
“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”
– Malcolm Gladwell in “Outliers”
“Ideas are so cheap and plentiful these days that ‘I thought of it...”
– kottke.org (via nickdouglas)
Musician banned from selling soul on eBay →
NB: Not from The Onion
“According to some Windows 7 will put the final nail in the coffin of desktop...”
– Crunchgear
I've started a politics "linkblog". →
Silly little side-project I thought would be fun, that also scratches the itch I’ve had for a while of wanting to use Google Reader’s “shared items” feature for something.
I’m quite into politics, but don’t want to bore all my Tumblr friend with looooads of links (and my inane two-sentence commentary on each one), especially when so many on Tumblr are USA-based...
“Everyone who posts music to the web should have their own radio station.”
– Fred Wilson (venture capitalist, blogger, music fan, interesting bloke)
“Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who can...”
– Peter Cochrane
(via marco and tristanjay7)
It’s time to end the work experience scam →
The Independent’s Johann Hari:
When you get to work today, will your coffee be fetched by an unpaid intern? Have you wrangled a work experience placement for your own child? Does your business rest on this bottom-layer of the unpaid and unmerited? Then you are part of a scam – one that disfigures and damages Britain.
Well written and argued as ever, but not sure I agree. There’s...
Sound City Want You! →
“New unsigned bands search launches”.
The lovely people at Clash magazine have done a nice piece on a collaboration between two of the companies I work with.
Just added Disqus commenting to my tumblelog
I know it’s not completely within the spirit of tumblelogging, and Tumblr’s reblog feature is often better than onsite commenting, but I like fiddling around with these things :-) Also allows non-Tumblr folks to make their opinion known. Y’know, democracy an’ that.
WANT*
My Tumblr “liked” items to appear in my FriendFeed stream. Or even gimme an RSS feed so I can plug it in myself.
A Tumblr dashboard tab that shows me my “liked” items so I can refer back to them later.
I’m sure such things are in the works, but just putting it out there…
(* in a very polite, “please may I have, Sir” kinda way)
“According to our most recent Nobel laureate, Paul Krugman, we are now in a...”
– Robert P. Murphy - Mises Institute
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-11) →
Jaydiohead (10)
Carpenters (9)
Eels (9)
Daniel Johnston (5)
Babes in Toyland (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Write this joke: Ben & Jerry create "Yes Pecan!"... →
Favourite answers:
Cluster Fudge
Choc ‘n’ Awe
Impeach Cobbler
And best of all: Good Riddance You Lousy Motherfucker…Swirl
:-)
Jonathan really doesn't get Fleet Foxes. The... →
Last.fm
kapi says:
Please reblog with your usernames. Mine is kapi80
Great idea - Tumblr folks sharin’ music taste! I’m bloodyawful.
(I’m not really, I’m lovely, but that’s my username LOLzzz!!!1)
Just joined FriendFeed... →
…so feel free to follow me there :-)
Web 2.0 tart that I am, I have of course played around with FriendFeed before, but have always resisted signing up properly as I thought it’d probably be aggregation and information overload. I participate in too many social media thingies as it as, and thought FF might be a bridge too far. And I still think it is really, for my purposes...
“Acquiring has supplanted inquisitive use as the self-realizing activity.”
– Marginal Utility: The alluring danger of dilettantism
There is no small dose of irony in the fact that I saved this article to Instapaper to read later (“acquiring” it) rather than actually “consuming” it (“inquisitive use”) now. But the larger quote posted by...
Burger King releases Facebook app →
The fast-food chain has released the Whopper Sacrifice application on Facebook. The app rewards people with a coupon for BK’s signature burger when they cull 10 friends. Each time a friend is excommunicated, the application sends a notification to the banished party via Facebook’s news feed explaining that the user’s love for the unlucky soul is less than his or her zeal for...
