Category: trends
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Go Worship Howard
Ok, I’ve got a podcast coming out with this guy’s music, but I seriously couldn’t wait to get you guys in touch with Howard Lloyd, the Brooklyn emcee who just sent me his Quickie EP. Go check out his site and download the stuff there – and I’ve got a new track from him which…
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Don’t let the (white) man get you down
Stephen Levitt of Freakanomics talks today about the difference in viewing habits between blacks and whites in modern day America. There is some subtext in the entry that needs to be discussed: If this one week of data is a good indicator (and I think it is), there has been a remarkable convergence in television…
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Who is Trixi?
I’m fascinated by this interactive drama that Yahoo7 has launched called PS: Trixi. It’s an engaging mix of stories and radio, a veritable JenniCam style site for 2006. Despite this, I have no idea what it is. Clicking on the radio link reveals they are accessible via Firefox, so I don’t know what they’re trying…
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Flashmobs et TVA
Je viens de faire une entrevue sur les flashmobs avec Dominic Arpin, qui paraîtra ce soir entre 17h et 18h à TVA. Bienvenue aux nouveaux visiteurs vennant de là et de son blogue; allez voir mon podcast ici sur iTunes, ainsi que quelques un de mes billets et podcasts favoris: I just did an interview…
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eMusic now #2 for downloads
eMusic’s service has become the second largest in the world, proving once more that independent, DRM-free music is what more music consumers are looking for. eMusic “sells monthly subscriptions, and those numbers have doubled since December, to 200,000. The company averages downloads of 5 million songs monthly,” as USA Today reported Sunday. The free downloads…
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Love your work
It becomes harder and harder, I think, to be a blogger that gets ‘work’ from their site and to continue being active in blogging while obtaining this work. I don’t know why, but I’ve seen it happen a lot with a bunch of people I know. Personally I intend to combat it. Whatever the case,…
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Making new content
As discussed in yesterday’s podcast, I’ll be making a new feed in the style of Matt‘s DDR2 feed – stuff by me that is specifically not IOYH. I invite you to subscribe to my random content feed here. (I can’t believe I was able to get feeds.feedburner.com/julien!)
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The Rise of the Has-Been
Celebrity is a subject that has been rattling around in my head recently. It started around when I started podcasting, or more precisely, when I realized that people were really listening for the first time. In a way, we are all celebrities. Some of us are larger-scale, than others, true. Adam Curry is pretty huge,…