ThisIsReallyNeat

A scrapbook of thoughts on social web technologies as they pertain to the music industry.

IFPI bitch and moan again, this time about how Lady Gaga is ruining Spanish Post-Hardcore (or something)

Application Programming Interfaces are a fantastic way to spread a service. If you get developers hooked, then up pop thousands of spinoff apps and services, all using your content.

This isn’t a bad thing - look at last.fm and Twitter. Their API’s are used in loads of places. They are names you can trust because you see them everywhere.

The key though is to make it real easy for developers to access your content/service/whatever.

Having said that, Phil Nash Industries seems to be doing ok with spotify.

"the findings make it more important than ever that the UK government must bring its anti-piracy measures “into force as quickly as possible”."

Music Ally | Blog Archive » BPI survey claims one in three Brits are downloading illegally

Anyone else get the feeling Geoff missed the point? Again?

"If “underground” still carries a faint renegade and utopian charge, it’s because the concept comes from the late 1960s and originally referred not just to long hair and trippy bands but also to the counterculture, the free press, and at the extreme end of the spectrum, guerrilla outfits like the Weather Underground and Angry Brigade who actually blew stuff up."

Simon Reynolds’s Notes on the noughties: The changing sound of the underground | Music | guardian.co.uk

I love Simon Reynolds. In this article he discusses the proliferation and simultaneous demise of the counter-culture in the wake of a generation of uber connected youth.

Why RATM being number one is a good thing

Forget about the poor sap that won a talent show only to have his prize wrenched away from him. Forget too about the fact that at the end of the day, Sony was the only winner here.

Rage being Xmas number one means that a group of (arguably misguided) people can, with the aid of the internet, put a stop to what, in my opinion, can only be described as a blight on our TV and Radio.

I never wanted to buy an Xfactor single. I did buy the Rage song though. I bought the album 10 years ago too. I bought it both times because it’s good. It’s still good, and it being number one is a good thing.

QED.