Steve Albini: the internet has solved the problem with music | Music | The Guardian: "We’ve published the entire address (with a few edits; I removed a throwaway jibe at Prince in case his highness’s lawyers come knocking) and it’s worth reading as a follow-up to his essay written 21 years ago. Albini explains in detail how major labels would carelessly spend money on promotion, thereby propping up record stores, radio stations and PR companies, safe in the knowledge that this money would be recouped at the artists’ expense."
1993 - The Problem with Music - The Baffler: "Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a particular context. I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit. I imagine these people, some of them good friends, some of them barely acquaintances, at one end of this trench. I also imagine a faceless industry lackey at the other end, holding a fountain pen and a contract waiting to be signed.
"Nobody can see what’s printed on the contract. It’s too far away, and besides, the shit stench is making everybody’s eyes water. The lackey shouts to everybody that the first one to swim the trench gets to sign the contract. Everybody dives in the trench and they struggle furiously to get to the other end. Two people arrive simultaneously and begin wrestling furiously, clawing each other and dunking each other under the shit. Eventually, one of them capitulates, and there’s only one contestant left. He reaches for the pen, but the Lackey says, 'Actually, I think you need a little more development. Swim it again, please. Backstroke.'
"And he does, of course."
2014 - Steve Albini on the surprisingly sturdy state of the music industry – in full | Music | The Guardian: "The music producer, Shellac frontman and author of seminal 1993 essay, The Problem with Music, spoke in Melbourne about the advantages of the internet, the death of the major label system, copyright law and that ‘purple dwarf in assless chaps’"
Once a band, now a blog... But for how long? The dead shall rise again! Someday. Maybe...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Farewell, Snip.it (& thanks!)
So, Snip.it was bought by Yahoo and is being shut down. They've put together a "Hall of Fame" of contributors and I was named as one of the top contributors in the "Politics & World" category...
From an email I received from their Content Director:
I want to personally thank you for all your amazing contributions to the product, both in your snips and in your feedback to us. I’ve been continually impressed by all the interesting, unique content you’ve unearthed, as well as your thoughtful commentary on it. The quality of your contributions made the site an absolute joy to browse.
To honor all of your support and contributions, we’ve included you in our Snip.it Hall of Fame, a place to celebrate our top snippers. We’ve included your Twitter handle, so people can continue to follow your insights.
We've also created a Snip.it Hall of Fame, where we’re honoring some of the top contributors to the Snip.it community. We’ve included their Twitter handles so you can continue to stay connected and follow their insights.
I joined Snip.it while it was still in beta and have posted to it more days than not since then. They’ve been cool, it’s a great service, and their staff has been very supportive. From nearly the beginning, they featured my content, which I was pretty proud of, and I seem to have attracted quite a few followers there.
Supposedly, they will be reinventing themselves with Yahoo. I hope so. They were a great service.
We are thrilled at the opportunity to bring Snip.it's vision to a larger scale at Yahoo!. While we can't share the specifics of what we'll be building, we are excited about the opportunity to take social news to new, exciting heights at Yahoo!. The Yahoo! team is passionate about inspiring and entertaining the world’s daily habits, and certainly sharing news and information is something we all do every day. The vision and energy at the company is contagious, and we’re so excited to be part of all that is to come.
So now, I just need to figure out what to do with the links I’ve saved there. There are a couple ways to download them for future use, and I’ll be taking a look at how to get these back out there, when I have a little time…
I just deleted the Snip It button from my browser. That makes me sad.
Unfortunately, in life, with both the good and the bad, “This, too, shall pass…”
Snip.it: All My Base Belong To You - HTML Links
Snip.it: Democracy In Distress - HTML Links
Snip.it: Favorites
Snip.it: Retrovirus Lab - HTML Links
Snip.it: Rubble - HTML Links
Snip.it: Suburban Eschatology Part Two - HTML Links
Yahoo Is In Talks To Buy A Site We Actually Use, Snip.It
Snip.It is a social site that resembles a mash up of Pinterest's collections and Instapaper's ability to save links for consumption later.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-acquires-snipit-2013-1#ixzz2IoskdMnR
Yahoo Poised to Acquire Content Curation Site Snip.it - Liz Gannes - News - AllThingsD:
Snip.it was founded by Ramy Adeeb, who was formerly a principal at Khosla Ventures, and has funding from Khosla, True Ventures, Charles River Ventures and SV Angel.
Yahoo is paying “mid teens” of millions of dollars for the company, according to a source.
…
Kara Swisher yesterday described Yahoo’s new approach to content:While one might argue that Google is already the Google of content, the plan is to make Yahoo more relevant by tailoring it to the individual and make the site a “trusted destination to get them to where they want to go and keep going back.”
Thus, the thinking goes, while Google is the place people come to search for links, Yahoo then becomes the place users come to find content. That means more partnership deals from third-party sources, with an additional social component layer and synced across a number of devices and platforms, especially video.
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Friday, April 27, 2012
Google Translate Trick
Posted by 30 Dirty Thoughts on Facebook:
Stupid but funny. Paste the following into Google Translate (http://translate.google.com/), choose "GERMAN" as the source language, and click the "LISTEN" button on the bottom right:
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Yes. I am a whore. And you can be too!
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Actually, going through and checking out a lot of bands through processes like this over the last few weeks has actually led to some great discoveries...
And I am not sure if this would upset Zuckerberg or turn him on.
E-mail from Ditto...
From: Ditto Music
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 6:37 AM
To: (Me, duh!)
Subject: Zuckerberg would be upset if he knew
Hi
Helping other artists may seem a bit counter productive, but...
Helping other artists may seem a bit counter productive, but...
How about if by doing this, YOU
were the person benefitting?
On sunday night a lightbulb went
off somewhere in Liverpool HQ and we decided to conduct a Facebook
experiment.
We started a new thread
and here are the rules....
1. Stick your Facebook Fanpage
address/URL down in the thread
2. Everyone who comes into the
thread has to 'Like' everyone else's page on the thread.
That was it. Quick and
simple.
In the last 24 hours we have now
had 100 artists post their Fanpages,
That means you get 100 new
fans, JUST for posting your fanpage address.
Disclaimer- It will
take you a good 20 minutes to go like everyone else's page. I'm sorry but we
can't do the work for you.
But once that is done, you can
sit back and watch your own fans go up, and up and.... you get the
point.
If that kind of instant social
media superstardom is something that you could be into, then come join
in.
But be quick. we are going to
close the thread off in the next 24 hours.
Come join us, and get your
likes
Good Luck!
Lee
Thursday, October 13, 2011
MissRepresentation Trailer: A great video on media portrayals of women in America
Cross-posted from Democracy in Distress:
The trailer for this movie touches on so many great issues, but this is one of the more shocking tid-bits: "...Cuba, China, Iraq, and Afghanistan have more women in government than the United States of America..."
Miss Representation 8 min. Trailer 8/23/11 from Miss Representation on Vimeo.
http://www.missrepresentation.org
http://facebook.com/missrepresentationcampaign
http://twitter.com/representpledge
PREMIERING ON OWN: OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK OCTOBER 20TH @ 9/8c!
The trailer for this movie touches on so many great issues, but this is one of the more shocking tid-bits: "...Cuba, China, Iraq, and Afghanistan have more women in government than the United States of America..."
Miss Representation 8 min. Trailer 8/23/11 from Miss Representation on Vimeo.
http://www.missrepresentation.org
http://facebook.com/missrepresentationcampaign
http://twitter.com/representpledge
PREMIERING ON OWN: OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK OCTOBER 20TH @ 9/8c!
Friday, September 30, 2011
Spotify, Last.fm, lions, tigers, and bears... Oh, my. Internet Radio.
Been playing a bit with Spotify and Last.fm today. Not sure what I think. Both are fun when first found, but I am not sure which will have the legs, if either, to become my go to for Internet Radio.
So I am curious, does any one out there use these? Or another service I haven't found yet? Let me know what you think.
My profiles on Spotify and Last.fm.
So I am curious, does any one out there use these? Or another service I haven't found yet? Let me know what you think.
My profiles on Spotify and Last.fm.
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