At least, so far to date... There are all sorts of Flash Mob events these days. I thought one of the coolest was the great freeze in Grand Central Station. That is, until Susan passed on the most awesomest Do-Re-Mi flash mob ever conceived!
My list of thoughts on the subject:
A) Why are flash-mobs so frickin awesome?!
B) Techno Sound of Music is AWESOME!
C) Can you imagine what rehearsals for this must have been like?
D) I couldn't stop grinning all the way through, how AWESOME!
E) On the downside, not a song I want stuck in my head all day...
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The New BSG Nerd Anthem
Mar 27th 2009, 09:37
If you love Battlestar Galactica and can appreciate semi-kooky electronic tributes, check out Jonathan Mann's Battlestar Galactica song from his song-a-day project. It does spoil events leading up to the finale, but does not mention events in or around the finale.
And only tangentially related, but still worth mentioning is Jonathon's Zombie Ponies song, which should earn a heartfelt "OMG PONIES!!!!!1" from everyone. Yes. EVERYONE.
And only tangentially related, but still worth mentioning is Jonathon's Zombie Ponies song, which should earn a heartfelt "OMG PONIES!!!!!1" from everyone. Yes. EVERYONE.
Flexible Music Labels Find New Ways to Put Nails in Their Own Coffins
Mar 26th 2009, 07:20
I've had SeeqPod on my cell phone for several months now. I haven't really found much use for it on a regular basis, but I really like the concept. In short, you punch in a band or artist name (or some similar search term) and SeeqPod will return you a list of individual tracks, whole playlists of tracks, or links to articles about that band, artist, or track on Wikipedia. Right from that returned list of search results you can queue up tracks into a playlist or just choose to play one of the returned playlists, streamed right over the Internet. The interface is slick, appealing, and customizable with different skins.
In what probably comes as no surprise to anyone, various music labels are suing SeeqPod for copyright infringement. In a rather daring and creative move, SeeqPod is now taking pre-registrations from anyone wanting to license their search engine technology and use it for their own (obviously nefarious) purposes.
As the Wired article points out, this didn't work so well for the music labels when they tried this strategy on P2P services like Napster. Taking action against these services forced P2P underground, making pursuit and monitoring significantly more difficult. I think it's fair to say that at this point, the labels have lost that particular battle. I have no idea if SeeqPod's strategy will save them, but you can rest assured that the number of services employing a similar search technology is going to explode, if for no other reason than because of the massive publicity this suit is going to rouse in the music-loving public.
UPDATE: It looks like some labels are working with similar service Project Playlist by licensing their libraries to the music search service. I have no idea why the labels choose these differing strategies for similar services. Obviously there is something here I'm not getting...
In what probably comes as no surprise to anyone, various music labels are suing SeeqPod for copyright infringement. In a rather daring and creative move, SeeqPod is now taking pre-registrations from anyone wanting to license their search engine technology and use it for their own (obviously nefarious) purposes.
As the Wired article points out, this didn't work so well for the music labels when they tried this strategy on P2P services like Napster. Taking action against these services forced P2P underground, making pursuit and monitoring significantly more difficult. I think it's fair to say that at this point, the labels have lost that particular battle. I have no idea if SeeqPod's strategy will save them, but you can rest assured that the number of services employing a similar search technology is going to explode, if for no other reason than because of the massive publicity this suit is going to rouse in the music-loving public.
UPDATE: It looks like some labels are working with similar service Project Playlist by licensing their libraries to the music search service. I have no idea why the labels choose these differing strategies for similar services. Obviously there is something here I'm not getting...
The SK6ers Take Britain!
Mar 12th 2009, 19:21
For those who haven't heard me rave about this band, Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers are my favorite band to see live. They may not play my favorite type of music, but hands down, they put on the best shows. Period. Lately they've been putting together little video blogs while touring and this latest one is probably one of their more entertaining. It features The Goose providing fascinating and utterly false statements about various sights in the UK. True story.