Bookmarks for 2 Dec 2009
- EigenZone – First live song recording after a week of usage
From Geert Bevan's blog exploring the Eigenharp Pico: "This is a song project that I’ve been working on to learn the possibilities of the Pico during this first week. It demonstrates how you can easily build up various loops while playing live and add vocals on top while the song is playing. I deliberately don’t use the breath pipe or the strip controller since I want to focus on learning the keys first." (eigenharp video ) - Lookie Lou isn't really a customer | yelvington.com
Steve Yelvington cuts into Danny Sullivan's criticism of Rupert Murdoch's moves to extract some money from his sites' visitors: "Danny Sullivan is getting a lot of points for his post beating up on News Corp. titled If Newspapers Were Stores, Would Visitors Be “Worthless” Then?Far be it from me to defend Rupert Murdoch.
But I have to take issue with the premise that newspaper executives are idiots for not realizing the immense value of random visitors from random places who stumble across a newspaper story.
It ain't there." (newspapers rupert_murdoch danny_sullivan )
- Interview with William Lewis, editor-in-chief and MD of digital at Telegraph Media Group | News | New Media Age
Interview with Will Lewis as he moves to his new job in the Telegraph group, at a new division in Euston, creating digital products and services: "I’ll take a handful of people with me from Victoria, but in essence want to source new talent [...] Frankly, for us, Euston is our future." (telegraph innovation newspapers will_lewis jobs ) - Twitter Doesn’t Track The Zeitgeist. Only 2 Percent Of Tweets Overlap With Search Trends.
"The overlap between trending search terms and Tweets is remarkably low (even if Twitter itself is a popular search term)." So, Twitter is social media, but it doesn't define what's happening out there now. Just in case you forgot. (twitter social_media search ) - Dan Lepard's Dundee cake bakealong: DONE! | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
Dan Lepard leads a live bakealong, with input from Guardian commenters. There's a lovely photo towards the end which shows his resulting cake next to a laptop showing the article which will shortly include the picture of the cake… if you get what I mean. (cooking baking cake live_blogging )
