Archive for the 'Online' Category


Wikipedia

There’s an ultimately boring article on Wikipedia in today’s "New York Times".  For those scoring at home, the article focuses on editing, with the primary controversial topic being Scientology.
I’ll leave the details out, if you’re that interested, you can click through.  But what got me to write this was the sidebar, wherein the genre of [...]

Slacker vs. Pandora

Pandora SUCKS!
I’m not sure computer-compiled radio is the future, but the fact that bozos listen to Pandora illustrates to me that you can sell crap to the public, because people are too dumb to know any better.
Try fine-tuning your Pandora station.  I know someone who’s invested 200 hours in creating ONE Pandora station!  Removing all [...]

Streaming vs. Ownership

If I get one more e-mail defending physical formats, I’m gonna throw my typewriter through the window.  Or maybe my Walkman!
Please, no more prognostications from those who haven’t experienced the future.  You remind me of my mother, who pooh-poohed the family friend who bought a personal computer in the eighties, lamenting he didn’t spend the [...]

Jonathan Coulton At Largo

A geekfest!
Somewhere in the last decade, "geek" went from pejorative to badge of honor.  Those not good-looking enough, not hip enough, not cool enough, took "geek" back, the same way African-Americans reclaimed "nigger".
The mainstream music industry has been focused on hip and cool forever.  The key is to build an act that sits above the [...]