October 30th, 2007 · Comments Off
“Classical-music culture on the Internet is expanding at a sometimes alarming pace. When I started my blog, I had links to seven or eight like-minded sites. Now I find myself part of a jabbering community of several hundred blogs, operated by critics, composers, conductors, pianists, double-bassists, oboists (I count five), artistic administrators, and noted mezzo-sopranos (Joyce DiDonato writes under the moniker Yankee Diva). After a first night at the Met, opera bloggers chime in with opinions both expert and eccentric, recalling the days when critics from a dozen dailies, whether Communist or Republican or Greek, lined up to extoll Caruso. Beyond the blogs are the Internet radio stations; streaming broadcasts from opera houses, orchestras, new-music ensembles; and Web sites of individual artists. There is a new awareness of what is happening musically in every part of the world. A listener in Tucson or Tokyo can virtually attend opening night at the Bayreuth Festival and listen the following day to a première by a young British composer at the BBC Proms.”
The New Yorker: The Well-Tempered Web. The Internet may be killing the pop CD, but it’s helping classical music
Tags: itunes,music,web,weblogs
January 5th, 2007 · Comments Off
“She’s a power user, so the problems she faces, normal users face 30 to 90 days later”, WSJ.
Tags: computers,gina trapani,lifehacker,people,site,weblogs
August 13th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“A repository for every keyboard secret in OS X. Some of these are well known, some are not. Shortcuts in the Menu category are common rather than universal. This list should continue to grow exponentially over time.”
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“… Inmiddels is de lijst gegroeit tot 50+ foodbloggers!”
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“numbers from zero to one hundred alphabetically sorted”
Tags: art,food,os x,short cuts,weblogs,wining and dining,zero content
April 24th, 2006 · Comments Off
Tags: cinema,design,history,nl,robots,web,weblogs
March 1st, 2006 · Comments Off
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“(…) But it was The Game, the picking-up-girls book. “
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“Lyceum is a multi-blog derivative of WordPress, suitable for installations with 2 or 200,000 blogs!”
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February 24th, 2006 · Comments Off
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The Soviet Anthem (With Lyrics.)
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“When I encourage people to start a blog here’s what I suggest they do.”
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“Meredith Finkelstein and Cindy Jeffers developed five robots for Heddatron, a play written by Elizabeth Merriweather, directed by Alex Timbers and produced by the Les Freres Corbusier theatre company.”
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“Astronomers have detected a new type of cosmic outburst that they can’t yet explain. The event was very close to our galaxy, they said. The eruption might portend an even brighter event to come, a supernova”
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“This is a video directed by Stephanie Van Houtte for the Ute Lemper version of the Kurt Weill classic, Mack The Knife. This clip features Stephanie Van Houtte and Steve Van De Casteele and was filmed in Ghent, Belgium. Summer 2005. Edited by Dwid Hellion
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Tags: anthem,astronomy,bbc,music,robots,rufus wainwright,space,supernova,theater,ussr,ute lemper,video,weblogs
January 31st, 2006 · Comments Off
Tags: cinema,citizenmedia,dave winer,elections,google maps,jason kottke,leiden,local,mashup,media,new york times,public domain,search,weblogs
