Streaming remains bedeviled by countless issues – not least artist payments – but what is clear is that it has the ability to transform the shape of the digital music market. And while that change may be slower to come than the Swedish and Norwegian experiences might suggest, come it will.
Don't Fuck With an English Teacher
It seems they had the story before it happened
By the way…how did The Verge have a detailed story on the demise of Everpix — with a blow by blow of the past month complete with photos of the team over that time— on the very day that Everpix called it quits? Did Everpix call up and say, “Hey I think we’re going to go out of business, do you want to hang out and follow us for our last month and do a story?”
I was wondering the EXACT same thing when I read that piece.
These younger guys weren’t waiting around to get signed. They were teaching themselves how to record, and making full-length records in their basements on equipment I would have dismissed as amateur gear. They were just DOING what I had spent ten years WAITING to see happen, not sweating their amateur status but reveling in it. Thanks to the encouragement of this new music scene I finally went into the studio and made a full-length album of songs I’d been carrying around for years… . .
Then a funny thing happened. The album started selling.
How an Indie-Rock Label Saved My Life (via newspeedwayboogie)
Great story. Great band. Great label.
Jerry Garcia on The Acid Tests | Blank on Blank | PBS Digital Studios (by blankonblank)
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iCloud Keychain works has frustrating limitations
iCloud Keychain works has frustrating limitations
I’ve long been a fan of 1Password, but have often said that it’s functionality is important enough to be built into the OS as an expansion of the Keychain that’s been part of OS X since, well, forever. iCloud Keychain finally makes a move towards that and I’ve been using it on Mavericks and iOS 7. But it still doesn’t replace 1Password for me. Instead, 1Password has become the master place where I access and manage my information while letting iCloud Keychain enable that information to be used across my devices.
This is pretty much how I feel as well and how I use 1Password with iCloud Keychain. 1Password has a lot more functionality (that I use) than iCloud Keychain, but iCloud Keychain is integrated with Mac OS and iOS, which makes for a better experience for web site logins.
There’s only one movie poster at the Sandwich office and it hangs behind my desk (seen here)—a gorgeous Argentinean edition of my favorite ninja movie, 1983’s “Revenge of the Ninja”. Keep that in the back of your mind.
Today, NBC News is launching a brand new version of their Breaking News app, and they brought me in to make a video for it. Their whole thing is quality news you can trust, not a bunch of garbage. It’s based in a time-honored respect for journalism that reminded me of the old titans of news: Edward R. Murrow, David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite. So I pitched the client on the idea of having one of those salty old news guys present their app as the savior of news. And bless their hearts, they let me do it. So I enlisted my talented writing friend Joshua Allen to give the character a voice, and the next step was casting our news man.
Here’s the fun part.
Casting is never easy in these videos we make. Never. But every once in a while, a brilliant actor, a master of the craft who you recognize as having played the villain in your favorite ninja movie walks through the door to the audition and you try not to lose your shit, you try to pretend you don’t know who he is, but you know that voice, you know those wise, charmingly menacing eyes. This man is Arthur Roberts and he’s played a major part in your subconscious since the 3rd grade. He’s informed some important archetypes for you, as a storyteller. He’s Arthur Roberts.
So you cast him, of course. And he is simply a joy to work with. A gentleman and an artist and a pro in every sense of the word.
Breaking News. What a world.
This is probably the most fun I’ve ever had writing a script, and as a bonus I got to be on set while they shot it, like a real fancy gent!
When Adam was describing the character I was like “Oh OK so I should basically write it in my own voice.” And he said “Well I didn’t want to come right out and say it.”
Installing based solely on this post.
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Knock on your iPhone to unlock your Mac. Even from your pocket. It is not more complicated than that. To experience it feels nothing short of magic. You’re like what? No. What?
I love this app and I made this video.
This actor is amazing. So is the app. Been using it for quite a while now.
Installed.
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