A few days ago, it was rumored that Twitter would begin charging brands for commercial use. This was soon denied, and rightly so — it makes no sense, as it’s just impossible to adequately delineate. There’s been talk of charging for “brand verification” as well, to ensure, say, that the person who claims to be [...]
He was a musician I was somewhat fascinated with in the 90s, and I just discovered today that he’s keeping a daily blog that’s pretty damn great. In today’s post he drops some wisdom about the cyclicity of cultural aesthetics. Nothing terribly groundbreaking, but I do love the phrase “the anxious echo.” Definitely worth a [...]
Well, sort of. Nearby Tweets just uses the location you stated at registration time, but it’s a very cool user-discovery feature nonetheless. I love an app like this — it does one thing, and does it well. It throws a simple user interface on something that was already available in the twitter API (thanks for [...]
Looks like a preview of the new muxtape.com is up, and while it has a certain aesthetic appeal, I’m not quite sure what niche it’s trying to fill. I mean, obviously it’d like to be what myspace has been in the past — a turnkey online presence for artists, simple to use and appealing to [...]
Things are happening that I shan’t go into. It occurs to me, though, that an important task in life involves sorting out the forever people from the people you let go. They are all important, and their lives are all equally meaningful and rich and deep. And even the phrase “let go” isn’t right nor [...]
On a Saturday afternoon, with the sun sliding through the eastern-facing windows, and smell of breakfast still lingering in the air, I often think to myself “why have I listened through the entirety of car talk? How did that happen? Those guys are entertaining to themselves in direct proportion to how much I hate them. [...]
He seems to be making it. He was always a small joy on Ed. (I realize I may have scorn heaped upon me for this — hell, I already have — but I did quite like Ed. They had an episode with a scrabble bit that was really nerdy and right on. But that’s just [...]
I first got ahold of the Butthole Surfers Locust Abortion Technician album around 1988, soon after it came out. It was a cassette actually — I was 15 and it was my sad, angry, portable medium of choice. The album opens with a rather over-wrought and way too self-satisfiedly ironic dialogue between a supposed father [...]
Some anime fan makes the assertion that free distribution of content helps create markets for consumer product sales (think DVDs plush toys, squeezable pillows), rather than cannibalizing potential sales revenue. I think this is probably true, under certain conditions.
Read this more for the ensuing comments than the article itself.