December 2009
23 posts
Dec 26th
Dec 24th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Rage Against the Machine (40) The Donnas (25) Sonic Boom Six (20) Volbeat (15) Metal Church (11) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 23rd
“Google is an advertising corporation. Their whole business model is predicated...”
– Charlie’s Diary: Gadget Patrol: 21st century phone In case you’ve ever wondered why google have bothered with Android and Chrome OS, here’s an excellent explanation from Charlie (the rest of the article is worth a read too).
Dec 19th
Dec 18th
WatchWatch
Killing In The Climb - rathergood.com This is a thing of beauty. (via Mike)
Dec 18th
The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast,... →
This is one of the scariest things I’ve read in a long time :/
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
JustGiving ratm4xmas campaign →
How about, instead of giving money to large corporations for a song you probably already own and are no doubt intimately familiar with, you give it a charity which helps people keep a roof over their head? (BTW, anybody know what happened with the strikes in 2008? Can’t seem to find any news of the results.)
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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“Bamboozle was a quiz game featured on Channel 4 Teletext in the United Kingdom....”
– Bamboozle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alas :(
Dec 15th
“Martin Talbot, managing director of The Official Charts Company, said: “This is...”
– X Factor could lose Christmas No 1 to Rage Against The Machine - Times Online Congrats guys, it looks like this is now being considered a legitimate contest. If Joe wins, it’s now an achievement. GREAT WORK UNDERMINING THE SYSTEM GAIS!
Dec 15th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Soilwork (21) Sonic Boom Six (20) Skindred (14) Isis (13) Senser (10) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 15th
Google Is Failing More - John Battelle's... →
And just like that I remember why I still haven’t unfollowed this RSS feed. I think we’re going to hear the word “curation” a lot next year. Or some horrible variant: “soshuration, convurations, folkuration”. Actually that last one has a nice ring to it.
Dec 14th
Dec 10th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →
Trust (41) Suicidal Tendencies (15) Steve Vai (13) Lamb of God (11) Baroness (11) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 9th
Rage Against The Machine For Christmas Number One?... →
Wow. I actually agree with NME. If you really want to make a point give your money to charity, turn off your tv and stop paying attention to the mass-marketing media machine (ooh, alliteration!).
Dec 7th
Dec 7th
The cock is dead, long live the cock →
Favrd has run its course it seems. It’s been a while since I cleaned up my addiction to its neverending stream of wit, so I don’t know if the culture had changed to cause this, but I’m not sure I’m particularly surprised. It always had an adversary attitude to those that see twitter as a vector for advertising, sales, celebrity culture and the like, so I’m not...
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