Monthly Archives August 2008

U2 Tracks Leak After Bono Plays Stereo Too Loudly | TorrentFreak

This is funny actually. I had the recordings for Accelerate roughly 8 months before the record’s release (demos) and then the album about 4 months prior or more. I was so paranoid about it that I’d take the ipod with me everywhere (ie, not leave in the glove box when valeting the car) and not [...]

Holy Jesus - power of attorney?

For purposes of this Agreement and solely to provide the Account Information to you as part of the Service, you grant Mint a limited power of attorney, and appoint Mint as your attorney-in-fact and agent, to access third party sites, retrieve and use your information with the full power and authority to do [...]

The Classic Rock Magazine Is Switching to a Smaller, Rack-Friendly Size - NYTimes.com

Question here is: why don’t they switch to a smaller, more web-friendly site? Why is that so hard for publishing companies to get: your sites suck.

[From The Classic Rock Magazine Is Switching to a Smaller, Rack-Friendly Size - NYTimes.com]

Music Ally | Blog Archive » USA Today: The shape of digital, Stateside

“Bertis Downs is very positive about his longstanding relationship with Warner. “They have a great team led by Ethan Kaplan. He’s very young - under 30 - and very much a techie. Warner realize their entire company - not just the new media department – but the whole company now has to embrace this.”
[From Music [...]

ReadWriteWeb is a good tech blog

For all the shit talking I’ve done about tech journalism, Marshall Kirkpatrick has been a nice counter-point to the regurgitation and rehashing that plagues most technology blogs. Good show.

[From Will The Semantic Web Have a Gender? - ReadWriteWeb]

Action!

So after my latest bitchy post decrying the ridiculousness of parties such as Mashable’s, etc, as well as the concept of Tech Scenesters and professional conference attendees who actually don’t do anything technical, I’ve decided that I want to do a gathering that is focused on the following:

Intellectual and technological discourse around problems with solutions [...]

New Look(?)

I wanted Widget support and support for the iPhone application, so I had to upgrade Wordpress, which broke the old BRG theme. This is a temporary theme, possibly. I have some ideas for what I want to do with it, but you know, ideas and free time seldom mesh.
The other thought I had is going [...]