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"This online marketing revolution is going to generate quite a lot of these creepy feelings. We're going to be wondering how companies know so much about us, why they're talking to us in such a familiar way and how come they get everything just slightly w

His fans do not want merely to buy his music. They want to be his friend. And that means they want to interact with him all day long online.

The Canadian folk-pop singer Jane Siberry has a clever system: she has a “pay what you can” policy with her downloadable songs, so fans can download them free — but her site also shows the average price her customers have paid for each track.

Those of us older than 25 can't imagine a life without e-mail. For the Facebook generation, it's hard to imagine a life of only e-mail, much less a life before it.

Sums up the writer’s strike nicely; Winter of our dissed content.

RCRD LBL

“A network of ad-supported online record labels and blogs offering completely free music streams and downloads from emerging and established artists.” Labels include Warp and Kompakt.

A few years back I used to have a strong dislike of TCFTS(IST). This is great, though.

Launching applications and documents is just Quicksilver's gateway drug: The more you get used to doing things with Quicksilver, the more things you want to do with it.

Increasingly empowered consumers, more self-reliant advertisers and ever-evolving technologies are redefining how advertising is sold, created, consumed and tracked.

Connecting audio... from any OS X application, to any OS X application

The digital skills that job seekers must have and that hiring organizations demand are varied, nuanced and cutting-edge.

Do something with a group, but only when you have the numbers to make it worthwhile.

For Mac users who want a simpler way to stay organized and get things done.

Smart favicon creator.

The 200 most successful websites pinned down on the Tokyo Metro Map, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective.

Via Information Architects Japan » iA Notebook » Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0

Two Radiohead/Adam Buxton videos in a row? I know, but this works so well.

Must buy helmet cam.

Radiohead and Adam Buxton together at last.

One of the best presentations I’ve seen; Jared Spool’s The Dawning of the Age Of Experience at dConstruct 2007.

Here's how it works: write an original Christmas song, record it, and email the song to us. Asthmatic Kitty will pick a winner, and that person will trade rights to their song for rights to Sufjan's song.

New and interesting websites from around the internet that may be of use to independent musicians and the music business.

Articles on how design is managed, with practical ideas and real-life examples of design being used for business success.

Extension of big red angry text but c'mon... CSS expressions? Evil!

I've been waiting for this for a while; John Grant's The Green Marketing Manfesto is now available.

A small script that sits on top of SWFObject and provides deep linking for Flash websites and applications.

"Ploughing a uniquely British furrow through the woozy outer limits of electronic music, the London-based imprint is now six years old; this year, it gave birth to Signals - a subscription-only series of 7"s by artists including Cursor Miner and Si Begg."

An understanding of what makes a piece of copy really good is one more useful device a web designer or developer can slot into his or her mental tool belt.

For me, jQuery's philosophy (type less, do more, keeping things intuitive and unobstrusive) makes a big difference. But, I miss prototype core javascript additions.

Great Sherburne article on the past, present and future of electronic music. "Scenes and sounds that were once strictly local affairs now have no problem connecting with niche publics anywhere on earth."

Scenes and sounds that were once strictly local affairs now have no problem connecting with niche publics anywhere on earth.

— Philip Sherburne, From Glitch To Blog House

Great article on the past, present and future of electronic music.

Torrent Raiders is a dynamic network visualization realized through the idioms and aesthetics of arcade-style video games. Driven in real-time by the activity of bit torrent swarms, Torrent Raiders takes place on the ad-hoc networks created by bit torrent users.

But why not charge more? Accessible, standards-complaint sites are quality sites, and quality sites, like quality cars, quality watches, and quality everything else, tend to be more expensive.

"[A] controversial session in which six teenage girls [...] discussed their music consumption practices." Fascinating stuff, especially the question from the former BPI Executive Chairman.

Create your own private network with your friends

"Centralized storage vault for all types of files." 50Gb

List of tumblr custom theme tags.

In early October, Yahoo’s Tom Coates presented Fire Eagle, a geographic service now in alpha testing that will provide data to location-based internet applications.