Bing!: Sub Pop goes RSS
Seattle label Sub Pop, home to the Postal Service, Low, Wolf Eyes, Sebadoh, the Shins, Damien Jurado, Iron and Wine, and other great bands with impeccable indie cred, has gone RSS, offering RSS 1.0 feeds for the following content: All downloads (including music, videos, and other goodies) All news Tour dates for all bands Localized [...]
Journalist-casting: is it just noise?
Some people think David Coursey’s latest column on Podcasting, in which he swoons over having Bob Edwards on his iPod but turns up his nose at the notion that someone might want to listen to a podcast from the technology’s originators, is really silly, and if you limit your imagination to audio versions of people’s [...]
The week in music
Polar opposites this week. First, the long-awaited final (and I must enclose a question mark after that word, given the long tradition of mining the back catalog of dead celebrities until not even their teeth are left in the grave) album from Elliott Smith, From a Basement on the Hill. With two songs from the [...]
Volcanoes sing
Who knew? From the NY Times science section: At Mount St. Helens, the Big Eruption Is of Data, Not Lava. One of the big surprises of post-1980 volcanic research is the discovery that rising steam around a volcano can cause earthquakes that have a particular resonance frequency, signaling building pressure and possible eruption: When an [...]
Are we really #6?
I held off on posting a pointer to this week’s polls because they make me uncomfortable. As Craig, who not coincidentally is an alum from #5-ranked Perdue, points out, the Hoos have had what might charitably be called a light schedule this year. Even Clemson, who in years past have been formidable enough to cast [...]
Famous for fifteen people
The piece I wrote last week on The Long Tail of blogging and the myth of attention scarcity has found some resonances in the blogosphere. Jim McGee pointed to my piece in a riff on the topic that extends to the question of attention scarcity and knowledge dissemination inside corporations: Sure, [attention is] a problem [...]
