Well, the world can’t be all bad can it? In Athens, GA…and 10 days down to a new Radiohead record? R.E.M. and Radiohead = heaven.
UP [From stereogum: New Radiohead Album In Rainbows Out October 10th]
No comment on the Radiohead release context, Ethan? You’re just glad they’re making another one? 
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I have PLENTY of comment on the radiohead release, none of which I can share as an employee of a record label At least publicly right now.
All I can say is: wouldn’t it be nice to be able to focus on innovation instead of ……
YA YA YA! Life IS good! They make me believe that music IS what YOU hear between the notes!
Cheers boys and thanks for another one!
What’s really cool is during the pre-order you can pay whatever you want for the album! I gave them 3 Pounds (about $5 USD).
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[From Music Industry Gurus' Five Point Plan to Save their Business | Listening Post from Wired.com]- #
Rauschenberg is one of my ultimate favorite artists and his passing is terribly sad
[From Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82 - New York Times]- #
this is fucking crazy.
[From Swiss man soars above Alps with jet-powered wing - Yahoo! News]- #
Funny thing is, with smart people, these are not challenges. With smart partners, they are open opportunities.
[From hypebot: Top 10 Issues Facing Music 2.0]- #
seriously: awesome news if this is true. I hope they provide API hooks through XMPP payloads as well, as some good ole stateful API programs would be every nice indeed. Death to HTTP polling! FBML pushes through XMPP for the win!
[From Breaking: Facebook to Launch Jabber/XMPP Support for Chat - The Unofficial Facebook Blog]- #
This is an incredible story that I didn't know much about, but every jew and non-jew should read and be inspired by.
[From Irena Sendler, 98; member of resistance saved lives of 2,500 Polish Jews - Los Angeles Times]- #
The ultimate twitter revenue is the use of premium SMS to provide for "fanclub" type feeds for some individuals. These would be exclusive feeds with some public messages and some private. For instance, imagine a band X that had a 1 dollar a month Twitter feed. The private 1 dollar a month feed included exclusive information, links to songs, etc. Also another twitter revenue source that can't happen if they don't fix their infrastructure: reselling the infrastructure! Getting good economies of scale with their SMS gateway and reuse from the HTTP and XMPP API's. The premium SMS one I've been hounding Ev and Biz about for a year now. I want it!
- #The Ultimate Twitter Revenue Model - ReadWriteWeb
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I feel like Anne Sullivan: "IT HAS A NAME!" Well thank goodness for that, because after all this time I thought I was working on just Technology!
[From New Music Economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]- #
water finds its level
[From The State of the Facebook Platform | 20bits]- #
Finally a nice use of Core Animation. Groovy and tactile.
[From Acrylic | Times]- #
- Music Industry Gurus’ Five Point Plan to Save their Business | Listening Post from Wired.com
- Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82 - New York Times
- Swiss man soars above Alps with jet-powered wing - Yahoo! News
- Cocoa Touch Developers
- hypebot: Top 10 Issues Facing Music 2.0
- Breaking: Facebook to Launch Jabber/XMPP Support for Chat - The Unofficial Facebook Blog
- Irena Sendler, 98; member of resistance saved lives of 2,500 Polish Jews - Los Angeles Times
- twitter revenue
- XMPP, Spread, Daemons, Python… aka a fun day being a geek.
- New Music Economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Well there’s your problem!
- The State of the Facebook Platform | 20bits
- Acrylic | Times
- Postcards From Yo Momma
- twistori
- SanFran MusicTech Summit
- Interns needed at WBR
- New: Video Comments On All TechCrunch Blogs
- A VC: Something Important Is On The Horizon In The Music Business
- spleak