Links for 13-11-2007
360 deals, reporters are doomed (maybe), mistrust in MMOs, simulated photosynthesis, music reviews and interviews …
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1 – The New Deal: Band as Brand
“Like many innovations, these deals were born of desperation; after experiencing the financial havoc unleashed by years of slipping CD sales, music companies started viewing the ancillary income from artists as a potential new source of cash.”
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2 – 360 Deals
“We thought we had a common enemy, the assholes stealing the music. But no, all along the enemy has been the major label. Which hasn’t had the interests of the artists at heart for DECADES!”
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“… we should spend less time fretting about platforms and more about the loss of honesty in our trade. There is yet to be a proper accounting for the disgraceful loss of journalistic integrity on both sides of the Atlantic that cheer-led us into the Ira
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4 – A culture of mistrust in Eve-Online
MMO sociology. I don’t know exactly why, but this stuff fascinates me.
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5 – Enhanced prosthetic is seven times faster
“The motor nerves once used to control the patient’s arm are then grafted to those connected to the chest muscles, while the sensory nerves from the missing arm are redirected to tissue under the skin of the chest.”
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6 – Home snoop CCTV more popular than Big Brother
“The scheme that gave residents of Shoreditch links to local CCTV cameras through their TV sets had better viewing figures than Channel 4′s Big Brother, according to an internal report by the local authority’s rejuvenation body.”
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7 – Definition Changing for People’s Privacy
“Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr [...] Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people’s private communications and financial information.” I feel safer already.
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8 – Researchers Simulate Photosynthesis, Design Better Leaf
“University of Illinois researchers have built a better plant, one that produces more leaves and fruit without needing extra fertilizer. The researchers accomplished the feat using a computer model that mimics the process of evolution.”
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9 – EP review: Jesu – Lifeline EP
“I’m not the first to compare the ‘Lifeline’ EP to the work of My Bloody Valentine, but neither will I be the last — few bands have managed to make something so beautiful from something so powerful …”
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10 – EP review: Envy – Abyssal EP
The majority of better-known bands from Japan have built their reputations on their mad-cap reinterpretations of Western pop music forms, but Envy appear to be more interested in forging their own path than reflecting the work of others.
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11 – Interview: Liam Wilson of Dillinger Escape Plan
“We do joke around that we’re cursed, or that we’ve got a hex on us and we’ve seen it follow people — Brent from Mastodon had all kinds of medical problems after recording with us. It’s something we laugh about amongst ourselves, but only out of
November 13th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
I’ll tell you ‘something that Lifeline doesn’t have going for it’. Its somewhat lightweight compared to the crushing catharsis of everything else Jesu have released. But then lightweight Jesu is like any other band at their most corpulent so i’ll let Broadrick off this time. Oh, and track three breaks the flow a bit.
November 13th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Both points taken, but I think the plus point of that is it will make Jesu’s material a little more accessible to people who aren’t quite so mired in moody crushing darkness as ourselves … and there are a couple of genuinely uplifting melodies in there that take it beyond the earlier material. Yes, it’s different – but not necessarily in a bad way.