algorithms
Apple Music [http://www.apple.com/uk/music/] arrived last night, and with it Beats 1 [http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/30/apple-musics-beats-1-zane-lowe] – a new, global music channel. And I’m not just quite hopeful that it’ll be god; I’ve been actively listening to it and
creativity
If you watch a number of GoPro-type extreme sports videos, you’re probably deeply familiar with this track: This tune is indelibly marked in my head as the “Le Web tune”, because as I sit in the main stage area, finishing liveblog posts, high-energy GoPro videos are often playing with
downloads
It’s not often that you start your working week with 10 free songs, but apparently I was one of the earliest people to sign up for an iTunes account in the UK when the iTunes store launched here a decade ago [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/
business models
I’m a big fan of the new emerging funding models that the web is bringing. Yeah, there’s Kickstarter, obviously, but I also like the “bundle” promotions that are appearing for software – and now music. I’ve just bagged my third bunch of albums from SoundSupply [http://www.soundsupp.
A new audio feature for the star of Google+ - Hangouts.
death
PandoDaily seems to be rapidly becoming the site I disagree with all the time [https://plus.google.com/101225171889950697044/posts/KFFWX2edA3L]. It happened again this morning, with a piece arguing that our children won’t want to inherit our digital music collections [http://pandodaily.com/2012/02/21/your-heirs-wont-care-about-your-crappy-mp3-collection/] : >
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/12/IMG_9822-Version-2.jpg] Daniel Ek [http://www.crunchbase.com/person/daniel-ek], Co-Founder & CEO, Spotify [http://www.spotify.com/] *This was a liveblog I abandoned because it didn’t seem “content rich” enough. I originally planned to mix it
events
A taste of last night’s Le Web party:
creative commons
Well, this is really useful: [Introducing Vimeo Music Store](http://vimeo.com/29198414) from [Andrea Allen](http://vimeo.com/andreaallen) on [Vimeo](http://vimeo.com).I was hunting for some music for a video project the other day, and struggled to find reasonably-priced selections of tracks to be used in
archiving
 Combined into one as it was done in one go: * Radiohead, Arcade Fire and OKGo are releasing the creativity into the wild and letting their fans
archiving
 Wow. Interesting start. Andrew Dubber [http://www.andrewdubber.com/] just started by saying that he was with Ed Milliband in opposing Steve Moore’s ideas on
dconstruct