For those who’ve been hanging on the edge of their seats waiting for this weeks playlist, you’ll have to ask Kate, who covered for me. I had to miss this weeks show because I was in suburban Detroit for three days for work. Share and Enjoy:
Through the Wire
"Hey, I'm just happy to be here…"
July 27th, 2004
MusicMobs
In reading the comments to Tom Coates’ The New Musical Functionality…, I found a link to a site called MusicMobs. MusicMobs is a music information site which is driven by individual users uploading their exported iTunes music libraries. That means that it can take information about what music you own (or at least what music [...]
July 22nd, 2004
Maps and Photos: 93 Photo Street
Just got wind of a new shareware application for associating your photos with maps: 93 Photo Street. Haven’t had a chance to use it yet, but it sounds cool. Available for Mac OS X or Windows. Coinciding with the release is a contest. Oh yeah: the author (Trevor Smith) has also released (GPL) Java libraries [...]
July 22nd, 2004
WNUR Jazz Show, July 22 2004
This week Chris and Rob came up to visit. Today’s show was a bit random as somehow I didn’t arrive at the station with as many plans for what to play. I finally got a hold of the Roy Campbell Pyramid Trio album “Ethnic Stew and Brew” and it really is excellent. I also accidentally [...]
July 20th, 2004
Bike Valet Hooray
I haven’t taken advantage of this yet, but Bank One is apparently offering free bike valet service at many public events in Chicago this summer. That’s a cool idea. They are also sponsoring safety checks and light maintenance provided by the Chicago Bicycle Federation. In addition to the music festivals which Bank One lists, Gapers [...]
July 15th, 2004
Re: Searching (New York Times)
On Slashdot, Matt Morgan notes that the real reason the New York Times isn’t giving away the archives may be their relationship with Lexis-Nexis. The Lexis-Nexis agreement is the key bit. NYT Digital profited $25M and they have a $20M agreement with Lexis-Nexis that they wouldn’t have if the archive were available free. The archive [...]
July 15th, 2004
WNUR Jazz Show, July 15 2004
Happy to say that that mysterious je ne sais quoi was back, and I really enjoyed today’s program. The call counter gets another notch, although the guy who called seemed to think I was “Doug” (he thought he recognized my voice) — but he said he enjoyed the show anyway. As I noted on the [...]
July 14th, 2004
Apple Tiger: I backpedal some more
Shortly after Apple’s WWDC, I commented that the new Spotlight feature might qualify as a LaunchBar killer. Well, John Gruber is privy to some inside information, and in Spotlight on Spotlight, he gets into some more detail about how Spotlight is going to work. One key factor is that Spotlight indexes and returns files, very [...]
July 14th, 2004
Searching for The New York Times
Wired news’ “Media Hack” column has an interesting commentary on the New York Times‘ lack of visibility in Google. They point out the Times’ insistence on registration and their strategy for moving content into the archives as reasons why their pages fare poorly on Google searches. They also ironically point out the Long Bet between [...]
July 11th, 2004
Quotable I
Joe in Uncategorized
” I felt like I was having a race change operation, something I’ve been meaning to get anyway.” — just one snippet among many words worth reading in John Barlow’s latest blog entry. Share and Enjoy: