Dancing About Architecture

It's time for a Yahoo! playtlist for the latest College Music Journal New Music chart. Major bummer that Y! doesn't have Broken Social Scene or Dangerdoom in the catalog ... but they do have the latest Sun Kil Moon -- it's just mistitled.

Playlist: CMJ NMR 940

Contents:

• My Morning Jacket, Z
• Franz Ferdinand, You Could Have It So Much Better
• The Go! Team, Thunder, Lightning, Strike
• Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine
• Various Artists, This Bird Has Flown
• Wolf Parade, Apologies To The Queen Mary
• Sun Kil Moon, Tiny Cities
• The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Armed Love
• Rogue Wave, Descended Like Vultures
• Gang Of Four, Return The Gift
• Metric, Live It Out
• Matt Pond Pa, Several Arrows Later
• Tom Vek, We Have Sound
• Death Cab For Cutie, Plans
• Sigur Ros, Takk...
• Ladytron, Witching Hour

Posted by Eric at 10:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Even though the title of the post is "FeedBurner's Dick Costolo on RSS Ads", this is a good Q&A about more than ads. Nice job, Dick!

Source: Interview: FeedBurner's Dick Costolo on RSS Ads

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Ah yes, the traditional November 10 switch-over to the Christmas season at Starbucks. Goodbye pumpkin spice latte, hello peppermint mocha! Red cups and cool jazz holiday tunes. Yes, Thanksgiving got all of 9 days this year between Halloween and today.

Posted by Eric at 09:07 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Looks like we're heading into the next wave of photo sharing apps with Slide and FilmLoop. Just like we're starting to see RSS get pushed down into the plumbing layer, we're also going to see p2p start to become more invisible and "just work". I think the next test of community apps will be "can I just install this on my parents' computer and just have it work and update?" I've been using FilmLoop (thanks for the tip, Eric) and I've been very impressed, even though it's still very beta and there are lots of kinks to work out.

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Jakob Nielsen recently penned "Incompetent Email Marketing = Lost Future Opportunities (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)" (thanks Matt) which talks about United's inept marketing emails. I have much more damning evidence that United's email marketing is busted: you sign up with them, you'll get spammed.

How do I know this? I create a new email address for every service that I sign up for ... that way, if I get some spam, I know where the leak happened. Sure enough, I have gotten rolex spam sent to united [at] luntfamily.com. The only place I gave that email address was as part of my united.com Mileage Plus account. Thanks, United!

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