…you could take some notes about the songs you are listening directly on the last.fm player? Nothing too fancy. Something similar to the delicious notes would be ok. By now I’m using a tag (toresearch) for discovered artists, and sometimes I take notes on my helipad, but adding them right on the player would save [...]
I’m always amazed at the use of tags in last.fm, specially for songs. Some random examples I’ve seen lately: Stereolab – Hallucinex: resistance is futile, electronic renaissance, sounds like sun, sigh and swoon in equal measure. Stereolab – Nothing to do with me: music to edit pictures to. Stereolab – Suggestion diabolique: take the bull [...]
For the underground, I always buy a 10 journey ticket. I never have a look at how many of them I spend. It always gives me a (punishment) beep when the ticket is over, and I have to go back to buy a new one. How about giving me a (warning) beep when I use [...]
As my rss reader doesn’t still forget feeds for me, I’ve had to force a total amnesia. I’ve done it before, but now I’m not going to get my opml back. I’ll add just the ones I remember… Happy new formatted year! Update:Might be time to switch rss reader too, as now google reader “provides [...]
Beans (the one i know) is a hip hop mc, formerly a member of the great Antipop Consortium. (The) Beans are a canadian post rock band, which I didn’t know before. They’re good if you’re into do make say think and bands like that. It seems like last.fm is not so sure about that difference, [...]
I’ve been thinking about differences that different technologies (as such, regardless of what we do with them) offer in user experience. They’re like different materials: DHTML = Paper: Transparent, accesible, malleable, fragile Flash = Plastic: Vectorial, fluid, “stretchable”, shiny… Java = Stone: Heavy, unchangeable (no right click), exclusive… Usually, the choice of the technology to [...]
Mine was just half an hour ago, listening to daedelus live on the wonderful dublab podcast. At around minute 43 of the session, if you ask… Yes, you should check it out