Tag: twitter
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Welcome to the hamster wheel
Popstar does a not very obscene gesture. People – well journalists and professional bloggers who aren’t really ‘people’ they are paid to pretend to be – get upset about it. Others get upset about that. And so the cycle continues. Is this the best humanity can do? This has a crushing depressing inevitability of PR…
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Playlisted to death & Peel vs the Playlist
A few days ago there was a flurry on twitter as BBC Radio 1 live twittered this week’s Playlist meeting. What was said was very revealing and I think revealed a lot about where I think Radio 1 has gone wrong, especially as there really isn’t the same 80’s style monoculture anymore – the feeling…
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Denial of Service
No not talking about Twitter (although I have to say, a site that depends on Javascript for deleting or posting but doesn’t disable it in the posts is incredibly negligent and stupid. I mean, security 101 here?!? And make your site not need Javascript too!) but that following the news that the film industry has…
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Wiley – what could be
How many blogs go from early 70’s folk to up-to-date 2010 grime-pop? Not that many, that’s what! More up to date I’ve been slowly wading through the gigabytes of tunes that Wiley released via Twitter in July – 11 zip files full of new Wiley music, variable (even demos and just beats in there) but…