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“The modern digital age has enabled bad music to be mass-produced very quickly and the wannabe famous “artistes “ in the basement are flooding the airwaves.” – all very true. Sometimes I feel like half of the world’s population is in a band. The market is saturated. Supply is exceeding demand many times over. But it’s free, so people download it anyway, which gives the illusion of demand. I expect that there will be a tipping point in the near future, and virtually overnight everyone will realise that unless you are in the lucky 0.1%, you will not be able to make significant money from your music (just like how virtually overnight everyone realised that food is getting expensive, petrol is getting expensive, and we need to save the planet RIGHT NOW). Lots of great stuff in the comments too.
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Random interesting stuff that I’ve found.
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“Nine minutes into the pre-recorded interview for Radio 4 arts show Front Row, the 31-year-old asked to leave the studio as he was not enjoying himself.” Chris Martin is a bit of a tosser.
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“The price of everything from food to energy would see significant price rises. Household electricity and gas bills are particularly vulnerable. Power companies have begun warning of a second round of major tariff increases for household bills this year that they say they will need to push through just to break even.” Wow. I guess they’re also going to have to reduce the salaries of the top executives just to break even. Seriously though, this is crucial stuff. Your petrol prices are about to skyrocket. Now is a good time to ask your boss for a raise.
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Google News
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Sigh, we can dream, can’t we? There’s only one article on this page that I don’t consider to be a “Good Thing” and I think that’s the one about Harry Potter. Oooh, controversial.
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The tutorial is a couple of years old, so a few things have changed in the meantime, but it’s more or less correct.
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Daily links for 3rd June 2008
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“Home Secretary Jacqui Smith says she is hopeful the government will win its bid to extend detention of terror suspects without charge from 28 days to 42 days.” It’s no longer the thin end of the wedge. We’re past that. It’s now just “wedge”.
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Cliff imagines what the prequel to The Bible might look like. Hilariuos.
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My new favourite music player on Linux. It keeps track of my library, yet is not a nausea-inducing eyesore like Rhythmbox and most other iTunes-inspired players. It’s written in Python for GTK+, so it doesn’t need 100MB of KDE libs to run it (hi, Amarok!). As always, installation is just
sudo apt-get install quodlibet
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Dailies for Sunday 1 June 2008
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Nice one, guys. In one evening, you’ve managed to make Boris Johnson look credible. Okay, not entirely credible, perhaps. But he’s less uncredible now than he was. And the link between alcohol consumption and asshole behaviour becomes just a little bit stronger.
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Dailies for Friday 30 May 2008
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I noticed that the Yahoo search engine spider was using up disproportionate quantities of bandwidth. In a nutshell, put the following two lines into your robots.txt:
User-agent: SlurpCrawl-delay: 5
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Dailies for Wednesday 14 May 2008
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“Microsoft got smart in Vista and changed the behavior when you hit F2 to rename a file, selecting only the name of the file and leaving the extension alone.” They didn’t get smart, exactly – they adopted an excellent feature from Linux.