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Wednesday night was to have been a super harvest moon (I didn’t see it — work, work, work). But it did inspire me to tweet some tunes: Oddly enough, I never saw this song rotate through my tweetstream tonight: Neil Young, ‘Harvest Moon’ - http://tinysong.com/saFh Another personal fave with that title: Jason & the Scorchers: ‘Harvest [...]
Thu, September 23 2010 » Main Page, Minutiae, Music Monday et al » Comments Off
Possibly the greatest rock guitarist who has lived to this point in human history died on Sept. 18, 1970.
Sun, September 19 2010 » Main Page, Music Monday et al » Comments Off
You wake up, stretch, take a shower. And when you step out of the shower and go to the computer to see what’s flowing through the Intertubes, you find out that Kory Teneycke is no longer heading the Sun TV project. In fact, you learn he no longer has a job.
Wed, September 15 2010 » Main Page, Media, photos, politics » Comments Off
I tweeted the following: For the record, as Sept. 14, 2010 wound down in the ET zone, the top Twitter trending topic in Canada was male strippers. Observe: As I mentioned in later tweets, it mainly seemed to be trending because people were asking, “WTF is this trending?” :)
Wed, September 15 2010 » Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off
The Pew Centre for the People and the Press has just released an interesting and comprehensive study of how Americans are consuming news these days. Very much worth reading if you’re a journalism junkie. Not surprisingly, online is growing fast:
Tue, September 14 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Read this piece by Mashable‘s Vadim Lavrusik on the future of social media in journalism. For the hell of it, read who is quoted within the story, and then try and track them down on Twitter and see what they had to say about the piece.
Mon, September 13 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Some tunes I tweeted, but I’m not sure if they hold together as a group: LCD Soundsystem, Losing My Edge - http://tinysong.com/t3ZD Nine Inch Nails, I Do Not Want This - http://tinysong.com/8qaP Dirty Sanchez, Fucking on the Dance Floor -http://tinysong.com/gcDq Beastie Boys, Jimmy James - http://tinysong.com/lfzB Lou Reed & the Velvet Underground, Perfect Day -http://tinysong.com/fs5r
Sun, September 12 2010 » Main Page, Music Monday et al » Comments Off
The usual suspects sent this Observer commentary around without analysis or comment. Unfortunately, it makes many dubious presumptions.
Sun, September 12 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Sun, September 12 2010 » Main Page, Media, multimedia » Comments Off
Blog habitué Dio Clese, who blogs himself at News Gadgets, passed along this treat! (thanks!) He also passed on this Wired article on the Taiwan-based company that creates these newsimations — Next Media Animations (NWA): Taiwan Tabloid Sensation Next Media Recreates the News. Some earlier, related posts: Dec. 10, 2009 – About that Tiger Woods animation Dec. [...]
Sun, September 12 2010 » Main Page, Media, multimedia » Comments Off