Shedding some light on Dark Mean - i(heart)music Dark Mean really need to let other people name things for them. I mean, their first EP was called Frankencottage . Their second EP, Music Box , may seem like an improvement, if a little generic...until you actually check the tracklisting, and discover that three of the four songs -- "Acoustic", "Piano & Beat" and "Dark Banjo" -- are named for the music featured within them. Thankfully the band's nomenclature-related flaws don't spill over into their music. While the titles may reduce the songs to their basic defining characteristics, once you start listening you'll quickly discover that the band can't be so easily pigeonholed. The aforementioned "Acoustic", for example, is an outstanding piece of folk-pop, while "Piano & Beat" shows that those two things can add up to make an impressively expansive song. Actually, that's not true.
Easy Backup and Restore of TweetDeck One of my favorite applications for Twitter is TweetDeck. TweetDeck comes as close to my idea of the Ultimate Twitter Client as there is. It lets me set up groups and watch keywords and arrange a sort of dashboard to keep track of everything. The main downside to this is if something goes wrong. Once you set up a group and add lots of people only to later accidentally delete it you will know what I mean. All that time down the drain. To remedy this situation I wrote 2 Windows batch scripts. Running the backup script will create a subdirectory in the location where you run the file and copy all your TweetDeck settings there. The restore script does the reverse, copying files from the special subdirectory (h:\backup\tweedeckbackup in my example above) into where you have TweetDeck installed. The scripts are contained in this zip file. tdbackup.zip The scripts are commented so you can see what they are doing. Update to clarify restoring:
TOP ALBUMS OF 2010 AS VOTED BY REDDIT (vote now!) : Music Yip yippee - i(heart)music All afternoon I was trying to come up with some way of describing Jasper Sloan Yip that didn't include Dave Matthews, Jason Mraz, John Mayer and The Mellow Show . After all, as much mainstream popularity as those artists have (and, to be honest, as much as I enjoy three of those four things), it seemed to me that invoking any of them would guarantee a fair number of readers would just instantly skip over the rest of the review, regardless of how glowing it might be -- not exactly a desirable outcome since, as far as I'm concerned, his newest album, Every Day and All at Once , deserves to be heard by a wide audience. Around my fifth or sixth listen, though, I came to two realizations. First and foremost, I don't think it's possible to write about Yip and not mention Matthews/Mraz/Mayer. Just run through the list of things that define those artists, and every single one of them would apply to Yip. The second realization?
2009 Will Be a Year of Panic Illustration by Joe Kloc I’m always impressed by people’s behavior during massive panics. They rarely believe or admit that they are panicked. Instead they assure one another that at last the wool has been lifted from their eyes. They are seeing the clear daylight of rationality after years of delusion. But a delusion that lasts for decades is not a delusion. As 2009 opens, our financial institutions are deep in massive, irrational panic. SEE ALSO: The True 21st Century Begins Let’s consider seven other massive reservoirs of potential popular dread. 1. It’s become an item of fundamentalist faith to maintain that the climate crisis is a weird leftist hoax. 2. Declaring that “information wants to be free” is an ideological stance. Intellectual property made sense and used to work rather well when conditions of production favored it. To imagine that real estate is worthless is strange, though we’ve somehow managed to do that. 3. 4. Insurance underlies the building and construction trades.
stereomood – emotional internet radio - music for my mood and activities iPhone Users Can Now Get Their Music in the Cloud With mSpot Finally, iPhone and iPod touch users can access their music from the cloud. The mSpot cloud music service goes live today, offering iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac/PC users the ability to upload up to 2GB of their music collections for free, and listen to that music anywhere. The mSpot music service is almost identical to the Android version released in June, offering a smartphone app with a choice between live streaming and "airplane mode," in which selected songs are pre-downloaded to the user's player for playback when an Internet connection isn't available. As users add music to their Macs or PCs, mSpot's desktop application automatically syncs the songs with the mSpot service. Of course, most music collections are much larger than the 2GB allowed by mSpot's free account, so the company's offering 40GB of space for $3.99 per month. Finally, the inconvenience of moving music between devices is eliminated with this service.
Is the unique visitor an endangered species? Duh Metrics matter. Every online publisher and every digital marketer knows this. In a new article, BusinessWeek's Sarah Lacy asks the question: is the 'unique user' metric an endangered species? Before I answer this question, a disclaimer: I'm not a fan of Lacy. Given this, it probably won't come as any surprise that I find her latest BusinessWeek article, and the question it asks, to be of little real substance. In it, Lacy lays out how the viral Web 2.0 services she has often fluffed have made the metric of 'unique users' less meaningful. "...there's a fine line between watching metrics as an indicator of content quality and sacrificing content in the name of shamelessly goosing metrics. The examples she provides to demonstrate this are curious. Take Twitter. But putting her flawed examples aside and getting to the question of the value of the unique users metric, I think Lacy is asking the question about a decade too late. In my experience, this metric has had limited value for some time.
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