December 2009
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New Year's Eve Party Songs - 2009
Last year a friend asked me to compile a list of well-known pop tracks that should be on his party playlist, and I happily obliged. I did the same this year, albeit hastily. As I said to him:
“These aren’t necessarily my favorites, but these are some of the biggest tracks of the year from the pop, indie, and rap scenes. (I didn’t include a bunch that aren’t really...
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Pitchfork Top 10 Albums, In US Sales
perpetua:
1. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion 131k 2. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca 48k 3. the xx xx 35k 4. The Flaming Lips Embryonic 75k (estimate) 5. Raekwon Only Built For Cuban Linx Part II 141k 6. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest 132k 7. Bat For Lashes Two Suns 36k 8. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 205k 9. Fever Ray Fever Ray 23k 10. Girls Album 19k
Sales figures are from Soundscan...
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“Why do I have to add a new page to my website? Can’t I just add links to PDF’s...”
– Clients From Hell is my new favorite Tumblog.
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All I Want For Christmas Is To Get It Crunk by...
Whoa.
mrgan:
Ok, stop whatever you’re doing. Yes, I know it’s the last weekend before Christmas; put down the CC. Listen:
If you put your iPhone in a regular ziplock bag, you can still use it. As in, you can tap the screen all you want and it’ll respond just fine.
I honestly had no idea that this worked - my mind is blown. This means I can use my iPhone when I walk in the rain. I can read recipes...
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If you click on one link today, make it this one. →
faketv:
this website is endless fun! via insoutswhathaveyous
Oh! (Oh!)
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Vimeo Sued By Capitol Records Over Lip Dubs →
zachklein:
I roared with a belly laugh when I read this headline in bed earlier today. Could Capitol Records truly be this misguided? Do they not realize that if you were to sort Internet brands by those most emblematic of creativity — not piracy — that Vimeo would line up at the top? Lip-dubbing is harmless and perfectly fun, and ultimately will define the aesthetic of an Internet generation....
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Jango Artist Airplay →
I read about Jango this morning via our Tunecore account and immediately drafted a strongly negative post, but after taking a deep breath and thinking about it more, I’m reconsidering.
At first the idea of paying someone to play your songs on internet radio is borderline offensive (as if giving it away for free weren’t enough!), but as a marketing expense, it’s not a terrible...
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“If I had asked people what they wanted. they would have said ‘faster horses’.”
– Henry Ford
Paramount to launch micro-budget movie division... →
The as-yet-unnamed division plans to finance as many as 20 “micro-budget” movies annually starting in 2010, according to people familiar with the studio’s plans who spoke on condition of anonymity because the formal announcement has not been made. A current Paramount executive will run the business, but the selection has not yet been revealed publicly. Funds for the movies — no more than $2...
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A not-so-brief chat with Randall Stephenson of... →
If you’re into ranting about AT&T, Just read the whole post.
Fake Steve Jobs:
So let’s talk traffic. We’ve got people who love this goddamn phone so much that they’re living on it. Yes, that’s crushing your network. Yes, 3% of your users are taking up 40% of your bandwidth. You see this as a bad thing. It’s not. It’s a good thing. It’s a blessing. It’s an indication that people love...
“It’s kind of like a crusade in its own way,” she said. “Me embodying the...”
– Frank talk with Lady Gaga, Latimes.com
I love her music. She’s incredibly talented. Poker Face still does it for me, and I can’t wait to keep hearing her stuff.
But this interview is full of unbelievably pompous quotes. She’s an attractive woman who belts the shit out of dance...
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Friday Slink: Pon de Floor (feat. VYBZ Kartel) by...
The slippery slope of angst
ben: Her brother has a band--
me: What kind of music do they play?
ben: I think it's "complaint rock"
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Apple is supposedly planning to use its... →
The future of music is Web-based, on-demand broadcast to any home or mobile phone.
But.
If it’s true, folding lala into iTunes will introduce lala (or lala’s technology) to a wider audience, but I don’t see it increasing the purchase of web-only tracks significantly in the near-term. Without reliable mobile 3G connections or a local cache for offline listening, it’s too...
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Tumblr Backup →
mrgan:
marco:
The Tumblr Backup app is ready for its first beta testing.
Unlike other publishing sites’ approach to backups, our goal was to create a useful copy of your blog’s _content_ that can be viewed on any computer, burned to a CD, or hosted as an archive of static HTML files.
This is great news. Now, to look a gift horse in the mouth for a moment, let’s establish a rule that if you’re...
WatchJon Stewart calls out Cretchen Carlson.
(Worth watching it all, but it really gets interesting around the 4-minute mark.)
Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less... →
Tests done since 1933 show that people who talk about their intentions are less likely to make them happen.
Announcing your plans to others satisfies your self-identity just enough that you’re less motivated to do the hard work needed.
[via Ansel]
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merlin:
weselec:
Granted, having a public following can be meaningful for more than social reasons, which a relatively public figure may have, but if you’re there to be social, and that’s largely the way you use the network, what’s the point of leaving the gate open at all?
Is the issue simply that the signal-to-noise when you already reach a large audience is too low to ever be worth wading...
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“My office hours are open until 5pm central. Q’s re: the 37signals Account...”
– Jason Fried
I’ve never seen a CEO (even one of a small Web company) open up to take direct calls. Pretty cool.
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Shy Ronnie vs. Boston Public Schools
via educationalrap:
In case you you missed it, the most recent Digital Short on SNL, “Shy Ronnie” (feat. Rihanna), is pretty funny.
It struck a chord because it reminded me of the workshops RRR did with Boston Public Schools this past summer. We worked with three groups of middle school students to help them write and record a song about summer, including their own verses and a joint...
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WatchWorld Cup, Beaver Creek, CO
WatchA Year and Change: NYC Sept 2008 - Nov 2009 (an excerpt)
I wanted to use my Animoto account before it expires; figured this was a good time to throw together a bunch of pictures taken since I moved to New York last year.
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