There was an announcement today from Last.fm that read: CBS-owned (NYSE: CBS) social music discovery and radio service Last.fm announced on Tuesday that it is discontinuing the on-demand song streaming service on its website, which had been available for the past two years in the U.S., U.K. and Germany, and will no longer host music [...]
When listening again to the classic We Are The World, i couldn’t help but think what a great song it is. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and became the fastest selling American pop song single ever. We Are The World (download here) Some notes on the song: Michael Jackson pretty much [...]
I’m reading Roger Ebert’s great essay about Making Out Is Its Own Reward and thinking to myself, “Ebert’s writing is the best kept secret on the Internet.” Last week I read his article Nil By Mouth where he describes how it feels to not be able to eat following his throat surgery. He offers some [...]
I saw that Fred did a post on Playdar today. I couldn’t help but comment on it as i am really excited with where it is leading. I’m going to rephrase and expand on my comments here. Those of you who aren’t familiar with Playdar, let me explain what it is. Playdar is a “Music [...]
In the Oct. Wired magazine they had a small blurb about things we’ll say to our grandkids. Some of the good ones were: Back in my day, we only needed 140 characters There used to be so much snow up here, you could strap a board to your feet and slide all the way down [...]
I’m reading the book Free by Chris Anderson on my iPhone Kindle. It’s the only book i have on it – and i got it because it was free. It’s actually turning out to be a good read and having it on my phone allows me to read it when i normally wouldn’t read anything [...]
iLIke was purchased by MySpace this week for $20 million. Hearing this annoucement, i couldn’t help think that something was off. Something just doesn’t make sense. Some facts: iLike has 50 million registered users. That’s a huge number. They are definitely one of the most popular applications on Facebook and one of the best applications [...]
A few weeks ago i went down to Comicon down in San Diego. While a fantastic place to people-watch (pics here) i did manage to catch an actual comic book panel. In the panel you had 7 actual authors of popular comic books and in the seats were about 1000 fans of the books. Questions [...]
This is an intense cover of the song “Africa” by an a cappella jazz choir from Slovenia called Perpetuum Jazzile. I do enjoy their use of “jazz hands” and sparkle fingers in their performance. Check it out: Related articles: A Beautiful Blend of Voice: Perpetuum Jazzile (converstations.com)
As everyone knows, Michael Jackson died last Friday from heart complications in LA. While i wasn’t shocked by his death, I was amazed by the reaction both by people and the media. Some of my thoughts: First off, while it’s nice to see such happy thoughts and words coming out of the media and blogosphere, [...]
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