Yeasayer performs 2080: looking forward to the Brussels concert
Enjoy Yeasayer, a great new band, performing their song 2080 from debut album All Hour Cymbals live on Conan O'Brien's 30 Rock Tour. Yeasayer is coming to Brussels next wednesday and we've got tickets :-) Unfortunately, the concert is sold out. More videos here.
In my view, 2008 has been a great musical year so far. Besides Yeasayer I also adored Black Mountain's In the Future. Do you know of other 2008 killer albums I need to be made aware of?
Update 23-2-08: the video has already been removed from Youtube, after only a few days. Big media will never ever get it. Somebody, send a meteorite to these dinosaur bastards, please... I replaced the video with another neat live performance.
Tags: [Black Mountain] [Yeasayer]
Filed under: [Music]
iPod Touch calendar editing
Just updated my iPod Touch to version 1.1.2 and YES!!!: it is now possible to add events to the calendar. The abscence of this feature was previously called a bug (highly unlikely imho) by Steve Jobs himself (possibly a fake letter, found here ). Bug or not, it's fixed now :-) And an already fantastic device has now become even more perfect.
PS: I use
Spanning Sync to synchronize between iCal and Google Calendar, so my iPod calendar now directly links to my Google Calendar.
Tags: [iPod]
Filed under: [Devices]
The User is the Content: The Book
Plug for my friends at Chips : their book, "The User is the Content", the result from an expertmeeting in Antwerp last April on the subject of user-generated content is out for sale from Lulu.
From the description:" 'The User is the Content - 10 scenarios for the future' is the result of the expertmeeting on The User is the Content, 26 and 27 April 2007 in Antwerp, as part of the Mind Europe Series of The Flemish-Dutch House deBuren. It contains 10 future scenarios written by 10 experts looking at cyberspace and user generated content in 2020. The experts are: Jan Bierhoff, Paul Gerhardt, Loïc Le Meur, Stuart Nolan, Ana Pejcinova, Dick Rijken, Evi Werkers, Clo Willaerts, Bob Young and John Buckman."
Definitely recommended!
Tags: [New media] [social software] [user-generated content]
Filed under: [Announcements]
Cleaning up Feed Subscriptions
I feel more in control of my information crunching behaviour now that I've thrown out some extremely verbose RSS-feeds yesterday. Stuff like del.icio.us hotlist, popular Digg stories and feeds related to Google alerts, it turned out, does little more than give you a strong feeling of information overflow. But now that I weeded my RSS-garden, it's become extremely pleasant to skim through the feed queue using the iPhone version of Google Reader.
For those of you interested in my shared items, here's the link to that page. For the new version of this site, I'm working on a Google Reader parsing engine that will help to inject this "shared" content into my site more gracefully.
Tags: [information overflow]
Filed under: [Links]
MySpace claiming back its valuable real estate
Got this in the mailbox today. MySpace might be hungry for traffic in the facebook-war. Of course they never ever delete your account :-)
You have not logged into MySpace since January 1, 2007. That makes us sad!
You're also holding a very valuable piece of MySpace real estate, which is the username/URL you chose. That makes MySpace users sad! Why? Because you've got a URL someone may want, and you're not really using it! Since it doesn't look like you're an active user on this account, we will be resetting your username/URL so that someone else can use it. To prevent this from happening, simply login to MySpace before Oct 31, 2007.
NOTE: We are only resetting the URLs of inactive accounts. We will not delete your account. We are simply trying to free up the username/URLs for people who actually want to use them. Thanks!
Tags: [MySpace]
Filed under: [Social Software]