“Gerard Cosloy, co-owner of Matador Records, chimed in: Two decades ago, having a Matador release from Pavement or Yo La Tengo top the Village Voice’s annual Pazz & Jopp poll, or appear in a New York Times review, would result in a sales bump of up to forty percent. The sales boost from such placements today? Zilch.”
Okay, that’s some funny shit.
Shit yea.
Esmerim - Beyaz Kelebekler ||| Turkish Freakout (2010) |||
Still on the heaviest of rotations.
The current volume estimate of all electronic information is roughly 1.2 zettabytes, the amount of data that would be generated by everyone in the world posting messages on Twitter continuously for a century [my new definition of hell]. That includes everything from e-mail to YouTube. More stunning: 75 percent of the information is duplicative [25 percent is porn]. By 2020, experts estimate that the volume will be 44 times greater than it was in 2009 [if we make to 2020].
Proliferating information takes a human toll, too, as it becomes more difficult to wade through the digital detritus. We’re all breeding (and probably hoarding) electronic information [some are snorting it, others fucking it]. Insensitive to our data-propagating power, we forward a joke on a Monday that may produce 10 million copies by Friday — probably all being stored somewhere [hahaha, archive this!].
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Fuck you, Netflix.
1. Wikipedia has been pretty much proven to be just as reliable as Britannica.
1.i. That barely matters, you shouldn’t be using an encyclopædia as a source anyways. Do some research.
2. Everyone knows you that if you are stuck with your research you look at the Wikipedia article and use the sources from that, rather than using it as a primary source.
Louis C.K, 2010
OMG THIS
Yeah, “olds” etc
Camera, check. Beer money, check. Earplugs, check….
Selling Out: The Joys of Adult Indie Easy Listening | The Awl
See: my-ahem-cynicism about Bill Callahan, Will Oldham and consistency a few posts back. I’m going to be pleasantly surprised when they (or Destroyer) show up on Austin City Limits. It’s a solid show.
First sign of spring.
PROBABLY SOUNDS JUST LIKE THE OLD BILL CALLAHAN!
And the one before that. And before that.
Strangely enough, that’s okay with me. Him, WIll Oldham and Tim Hecker can keep putting out the same album over and over again with slight variations, and I’ll still enjoy it. Consistency is a good thing sometimes, keeps your market locked in: people have been following you since the 90’s and are still singing hosannah every time you release a new record? Right on.
- XKCD alt-text on this comic. (via thegongshow)
people continue rambling in their hashtags.
if it’s done well, they’re like easter eggs.
Seconded
Question: Are #hashtags annoying when they drift off of Twitter into other forums like FB & Tumblr? Don’t answer that, I’m sure they are for some people.
They’re slowly becoming part of my written language now on the internet, working as quick post-scripts to the original thought, or as quick TL/DR-style summaries (140char as TL/DR? Have we sunk that low?.).
Anyways: Twitter + aphoristic thinking/writing style = perfect venue. I like.
/Also, slashies
//FARK doesn’t get enough love up in the tumblrs
“But while Japan has escaped serious crime problems so far this time, the emerging reports of unlawful activity have underscored the need for authorities to further speed up relief in affected areas, where some 318,000 people remain in shelters and freezing temperatures are adding to the misery.”
This. It’s been over a week. See previous post as well.
Also, beer. C’mon! Turn down a flat of Kirin just lying there among wrecked pallettes and such? Duh.
“Hint: A lot of the stories you’ve heard about crime and mayhem are either myths, or overblown accounts that don’t represent the vast majority.”
Are you fucking kidding me? M and I are laughing our asses off right now:
“In studio, Piers Morgan was having a good show on Monday until - wait for it - he interviewed Yoko Ono about how she felt seeing the Japanese carnage.
… Why not interview an Asian American eating sushi at a restaurant? The connection to Japan is about that tenuous.”
Josh Marshall tears Western media a new one. Worth reading. Ball dropped.
Reading it with M. on Skype as I post this and we’re both dumbfounded by some of the examples of stupidity masquerading as news, to the point that we’re laughing. And we were going to watch some Curb Your Enthusiasm tonight.
Anyways:
This has not been just Fox News, but also CNN, MSNBC, ABC, and even the New York Times to differing degrees. They get the reactors mixed up or report information that is simply wrong (e.g., writing that the TEPCO workers had fully abandoned the effort to control the plant because of radiation levels when TEPCO had only withdrawn some non-essential personnel). They are perpetually late, continuing to report things the Japanese media had shown to be wrong or different the day before. They are woefully selective, bringing out just the sensational elements (“toxic clouds” over Tokyo―when in fact radiation in Tokyo now is actually less than that in LA on some days). They are misleading (implying for instance that the dumping of water from the air was some last ditch effort to cool the core, when it was just an effort to replenish the water in the spent rod pools―which are now full in reactor 3 and back to normal temperature). Colleagues have noted problems with European coverage as well, but the difference between media can be obvious:
http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/03/18/media-sensationalism-bbc-vs-huffington-post/
Severity of Offense scores
1 - 2: Probably unintentional, and based on bad info that seemed legit
3 - 4: Not malicious, just misunderstanding of the situation
5 - 6: Reporting without checking easily-confirmed facts; lazy as opposed to malicious OR just dumb fluff piece using human tragedy as a background.
7 - 8: No fact checking; printing rumours as fact; sensational story more important than actual truth
9 : Fear mongering.
10 : Hysterical fear-mongering along with racial/cultural/political bias
11 : Satan
Brilliant.
