Scotsman, musician and polymath David Byrne just penned an excellent article in Wired regarding the current state of affairs for record companies and artists for distribution of CDs and digital music. An authoritative must-read for anyone in the music business. Technorati Tags: Music
From Slashdot, speculation that iTMS will offer tracks in Apple Lossless format as early as next year. Assuming they also make these tracks free of their evil DRM, I’d be happy to pay a premium over the standard mp3/AAC tracks available. As a recording engineer and studio owner, I definitely can hear and appreciate the…
I know I do, and I’ve played guitar in numerous bands for the past 20+ years, I have a recording studio in my house, an angel investment in an indie record label (About Records) as well as my own boutique label (Toothless Monkey Music), and my band Soul Patch (which includes my partner Jason Mendelson…
I was reading Chris Fralic’s post about LinkedIn vs. Facebook, when he talked about his first Facebook birthday, which he described as a personal “aha” moment with the service after his recent birthday. I had this same same exact “aha” experience on my birthday several weeks (October 29th for those of you keeping score) when…
Via Gizmodo: Upgrading your Comcast Motorola/Scientific DVR to run TiVo software costs an extra $2.95/month and has been rolled out in New England. More details from Comcast here. And go sign up here to be notified when it rolls out in your neighborhood. Comcast, please hurry up and get this rolled out in the Boulder/Denver…
From Slashdot: AT&T is decommissioning their pay phones. Video killed the radio star, p2p, Skype, and now this? Probably a somewhat overdue capitulation on AT&T’s part given the ubiquity of the mobile phone. I commented in a previous blog post about encountering a decommissioned pay phone — clearly they are on their way to becoming…
There’s a tall smokestack near my house in Boulder that is part of the Boulder Community Hospital’s Mapleton Center. Though it is a bit of an eyesore, happily I’ve never seen smoke coming from it, so I assume it isn’t actually in use. I walked by it the other day and took a few shots…
Just a random thought: I’ll bet TinyURL has seen a spike in usage since Twitter came along. I’m seeing a ton of tweets with TinyURLs embedded in them. If anyone reading knows anyone associated with TinyURL, feel free to comment on my idle speculation… Update: well, I just went to the TinyURL site (to make…
Just a quick tout for one of my companies: Akustica. Today they announced they’ve shipped their two millionth microphone. It took fifteen months from shipping their very first production microphone to reach the one million mark, and a scant three months to reach the second million. Congrats to Akustica on their very steep (and getting…
One of the benefits of living in an historic neighborhood (no, the anti-property rights Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board is not one of them) is the mature trees that line the streets. I took a quick snapshot this morning of the beautiful autumn colors on the block between 4th and 5th on Pine Street. Technorati Tags:…