Archive for January, 2004

Tune Recy­cler — Sup­port Indie Music with the iTunes Pepsi Super Bowl Pro­mo­tion. It’s a step in the right direc­tion… iTMS defi­nately does what users have been crav­ing for years; deliv­ers music dig­i­tally. But while the record labels don’t miss out on rev­enue that way, the hope that the actual artists have a bet­ter way of sur­viv­ing is a bit so so. Down­hill­batte even got iTMS to remove the “fair to the artists” claim from their web­site… As it is now, you can’t ignore major record labels, and maybe you shouldn’t. But the main objec­tive should be to get a big a cut as pos­si­ble into the artists’ pock­ets which isn’t really hap­pen­ing now. Don’t get me wrong, I think the iTMS is cool and I feel good about pay­ing for my music. But wouldn’t it be even cooler if the low-cost ways of dis­trib­ut­ing on the net could some­how ben­e­fit the peo­ple pro­duc­ing the music? I think so… iTMS and sim­i­lar ser­vices have all the poten­tial to do some­thing more than just another way for a big indus­try to cre­ate income. It’s all about activism it seems…

Btw: Isn’t that Pepsi Super Bowl video embar­ras­ing in every way?

Despite the typo in this arti­cle (Dan­ish only), they might just have hit some­thing: Teenage­Tal­iban — such a nice word… If it wasn’t because I would get instantly jailed for just try­ing to pur­chase the domain name, I would. Actu­ally, the nice peo­ple of Amer­ica might just be mon­i­tor­ing the domain name search itself…uuhh. (Psst…it’s avail­able. If you don’t hear from me again, then maybe I should have wifi’ed into somone else’s ip).

Reminds me of a site I once found; the home of “Mil­i­tante DAMP-børn” — a mil­i­tant group of chil­dren with DAMP (Decreased Atten­tion Motor­con­trol Per­cep­tion) dis­or­der (I won­der if DAMP is on the MT Acronym plu­gin list? No, it’s not really funny, and peo­ple with DAMP aren’t bad peo­ple — it’s a word-thing, ok).

Geezer name chal­lenge: GEEZA — them dirty beats

Sym­bian­Wiki : Use­ful 3650 Tips. Could become an excel­lent ressource. Cov­ers Sym­bian in generel — on the page linked I finally found out how to shut down run­ning pro­grams with­out extra soft­ware. Which I recently strug­gled with when try­ing to get Opera installed…

Texas Chain­saw Poster with a twist

iTunes Music Store RSS Gen­er­a­tor: Make your own cus­tomized feeds from iTunes Music Store. The feeds include cover art, links etc. Nice, nice…

Amaz­ing side­walk chalk-drawins. Some­what scary.

Mezzoblue’s Dave Shea on kern­ing: Type: the Extra Mile. Good lit­tle hints on get­ting that small type just right. Nice1.

Sim­C­ity Clas­sic Live — online and free

Can­di­date Dean (being bashed world­wide at the moment for shout­ing) now has an RSS feed, Chan­nel Dean. What­ever your polit­i­cal flavour, you have to love his net-supported cam­paign. Much has been writ­ten already — it’s all good. The rea­son for this post, how­ever, is the nice FAQ intro­duc­ing the feed — and a lot of peo­ple to their first syn­di­ca­tion expe­ri­ence. Show all the good peo­ple some real pur­poses for look­ing into RSS and you’re there… We believe that a more informed elec­torate is more likely to sup­port our can­di­date. Damn, Clue­train is all happening…