Links from 2008

Fantastic comment on music industry/illegal downloads/self-promotion on Slashdot.

"Maybe building a street team of trusted individuals who are tapped into powerful networks, and enabling and rewarding them to evangelise in quiet, enthusiastic tones on your behalf is better than gathering as many random MySpace accounts as you can find

"Britain's six leading internet providers have signed a Government-led agreement to stamp out illegal music file sharing." Bah.

Free. Could be dead handy. "No bandwidth costs: upload your content once, and we'll distribute and seed it for you."

Since the big NY Times Magazine article a lot of just-starting indie musicians have been writing to ask about how I made all of this happen.

A Twitter client that adds photos and geolocation as well as clickable URLs and Follow / Stop Following control within the app. With it, you can find people twittering near you.

Urban game based on cameraphones and the use QR-Codes.

Tumblr MP3 Player by Dan Kantor

shrinkwrapped:

david:

> This is cool! Dan Kantor made a tumblelog widget that plays through all of your Audio posts.

Yay! This is just the sort of thing we need for WoopWoop.

Just what I was thinking.

In Faust, content for Flash is a single source of data: the HTML. You don’t need a new XML structure. The same lists, images, and links you display for users without Flash are consumed for users with Flash.

Free music from Eve, the spacey MMORPG. Surprisingly good.

The new guidelines for UK public sector bodies on ‘Delivering inclusive websites’ are a bewildering blend of the vague with the Draconian.

Monitors Web sites that you specify for edits. Our Web-based service records every change, clearly highlighting added or deleted words and sentences.

form follows data - data visualization & visual communication

A service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter.

The famously baffling metropolis is home to an experiment in ubiquitous computing that could transform the city

petercostello:

Radiohead – House Of Cards

Radiohead’s latest video, for the track “House of Cards” from the In Rainbows album, uses real time 3D recording instead of cameras, utilizing highly technical structured light and Lidar laser-enhanced scanners to model lead singer Thom Yorke and provide an otherworldly narrative accompaniment to the song. There’s also a cool google interactive.

Via Creativity Online

When 37signals first started out, we didn’t make products. We did client work...

A tool for the MacBook and MacBook Pro computers. It lets you monitor the frequency, voltage and temperature of the CoreDuo / Core2Duo CPU. Registered users can also change the frequency and voltage of the processor.

Once your user base has grown beyond a certain point, you cannot take features away from them. They will freak out. Whether the feature is good or bad, once you launch it you’ve married it.

Crushed new potatoes with herb butter, Grilled lamb, pea and mint mash, Braised lettuce with broad beans and bacon, Warm asparagus with melted cheese, Marinated strawberries.

Where electrohouse meets Virgina Woolf.

SFW.

This is just a list of free and open spaces in London, places where smallish groups might congregate to do something, like talk, understand things better, make plans, organise other things.

Now that it's done · · · · · I've begun to see the reason why we are here.

Lo Recordings' production/library music site.

Merlin is a non-profit organisation charged with representing independent music companies in enhancing the commercial exploitation of their copyrights on a global basis.

woopwoop:

Eric’s Trip “ViewMaster”

As Eric’s Trip wind up their jaunt across North America, the days wind down to the release of Eric’s Trip Video Show 1990-1996 this summer. If you are an Eric’s fan, check out a clip or two at Rick White’s Archive.

Ah, Eric’s Trip! I wish they’d done some European dates as well.

The fact that a screen is “cluttered” doesn’t automatically mean it is poorly designed or ill-conceived.

"A complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics." Great, but picked up a couple of things I disagree with already.

Most Popular Muxtapes

It’s all about the muxtapes at the mo (via headlessness)

As if Exile in Guyville wasn’t personal enough, this piece – available with Liz Phair’s recently reissued album – presents a collection of interviews (with John Cusack, Ira Glass, Steve Albini, and others) produced and directed by the singer/songerwriter herself.

More at Pitchfork.

A global firm of designers, engineers, planners and business consultants.

The pioneer in multivariable optimization, Optimost helps online marketers improve customer satisfaction, increase conversion rates, and maximize ROI.

Fixes the stuck-until-clicked wake problem

The UK Government wants to hear your ideas for new products that could improve the way public information is communicated.

"The busyness economy works on face time, incremental improvement, strategic long-term planning, return on investment, and hierarchical control. The burst economy, enabled by the Web, works on innovation, flat knowledge networks, and discontinuous product

Another excellent mySociety hack.