Tag: Mass media
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R for Revolution
(photo from Cape Town Million Mask March – can’t find the photographer) Amazed how off the ball the mainstream media was about the Million Mask March – I wasn’t in the loop (not a surprise, I’ve weaned myself off fast-news cycles and aren’t following as many Occupy/Anon feeds as I was a few years back),…
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Posing DJs
Surprised it took so long (after DJ Notes and Depressed Producers & DJs but DJ press shots are a mine of unintentional humour and a level of geeky/testosterone awkward that gives Awkward Band Photos a run for it’s rather dubious currency. So I present to you Posing DJs in all it’s far-too-‘shopped and embarrassingly posed…
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Cease and Desist Mark 2: Beastles gets pulled by the blue meanies
Years ago, on a different host and a different URL I got a Cease and Desist from EMI via the MCPS-PRS for a mashup I did…interestingly I haven’t been hassled since then, til now. I’m mirroring the Beastles ‘Ill Submarine’ and it seems the RIAA & Universal is leading an attack on it, despite the…
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Churnalism
First time I’ve heard the phrase ‘churnalism’ but I instinctively and immediately knew what it meant. The article in question about the coverage of Kim Gordon points out quite a few of the things I’ve been blathering on about here – apart from the important feminist point that why is a woman so multi-faceted and…
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Happy Birthday To Me, Happy Birthday To Me
I forgot, Radio Clash Podcast – the first mashup podcast and I think the oldest UK podcast still running, or at least the oldest continous UK music podcast anyhoos (?) turned 8 last week – the first one was on 29th November 2004. I feel old. The blog came a few months later, Jan or…
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John Peel’s Record Collection
It’s been floating around the blogotwitfaceosphere since Monday, but only really had a look now at the John Peel’s Record Collection site. Love the videos and photos, and small peek into his amazing collection. I hope at some point they allow access to the entire archive as a database, I’m sure some really good uses…