Every year, people sort of hum Auld Lang Syne as the ball drops. Every year, you don’t have to. Instead, read the lyrics and watch this video. Music and lyrics by NoPrivacy on YouTube: Just the lyrics, courtesy of MaverickNY in the comments: Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld
Recently, Amy Garland asked me about my favorite Christmas song. Here’s mine, from the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. It sums up everything that I love about this time of year and never fails to bring a tear to my eye. Listen carefully and enjoy it. If you like it, please do right by the band and buy
I listen to a ton of music during the workday to help me power through stuff, especially when I need an extra boost of energy, creativity, or motivation. Since a number of people have asked, here are some of the albums I recommend. Most are either in foreign languages or lyric-free, because the language processing
It’s Friday. Let’s have a little bit of fun. One of the things that makes me productive during the workday? The right audio. Sometimes the audio is training, most of the time it’s good tunes. Here’s some of what’s on my iPod while the day is flying by. You’ll notice that for the most part,
Let me tell you a brief story about the day I learned about our superhero powers as human beings. It’s nine o clock on a Saturday, regular crowd shuffles in… In December of 1994, I went to a Billy Joel concert at Nassau Coliseum during one of the final legs of the River of Dreams
Matt Mason, author of the Pirate’s Dilemma, pithily says, Piracy is a market signal. Piracy indicates that something is sufficiently valuable enough that it’s worth stealing. It’s worth making an illegal copy and spreading without compensating the creator. Do you want the most accurate, unbiased, unmanipulated measure of how popular and valuable something is? Go
I had the opportunity to film Matthew Ebel playing live at AS220 in Providence at NewBCamp this past Saturday. After some uphill learning curves, I got the hang of the tricks I needed in order to make this video, and here’s the final result. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1LqUUv2cC8[/youtube] Enjoy it! Please leave all comments on the video itself,
For those who didn’t head out to PodCamp Toronto this weekend, another UnConference launched in New England – NewBCamp. Very closely aligned in concept (though no connection) to PodCamp Pittsburgh‘s BootCamp PGH, NewBCamp was created by Sara Streeter, a student at Johnson & Wales University, to achieve the dual goals of introducing new people to
I got a promotional email from Big Machine Media today cc’ed to a list of 340 podcasters and bloggers, promoting their musicians. Good try, gang. Look, a lot has already been said about blogger outreach by better minds than mine. Here’s where this campaign really fell flat. First, please, please, please if you’re going to
Hat tip to Erik Carlsson for the link to this insanely cool idea. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziIdjrR_MRs[/youtube]
