Links for 4.21.08: Apple’s IM Conversation, Rolling Stone’s fall, the BBC’s Sound Index
*Music magazines are not doing well at all. I guess everyone is reading the Daily Swarm. [ypulse]
*Scarlett Johansson’s cover of Tom Waits’ “Falling Down.” [Universal Music Group]
*The perfect song length: 2:42 (worth reading for the third line of the essay alone). Also, here is a Muxtape on the matter.
*Local: Billy Bob Thornton (the old man who is supposedly one of my hideous doppelgangers) will be playing MUSIC as part of the Minnesota Zoo concert series. [switchblade comb]
*American Top 40? Hardly. Check out the BBC’s Sound Index, a music popularity chart based on scans (every 6 hours) of iTunes, MySpace, Google, Bebo, Last.fm and YouTube. [million music]
*An execrable Star Tribune mini-review of the Minneapolis (well, Maplewood) Kraftwerk show. [mediation]
*MyStrands wants to invest $100k in somebody who has a really smart recommendation engine idea. [duke listens]
*Of the top 25 YouTube search terms for March 2008, 16 were musical, including: Lil Wayne, Low, Chris Brown, No Air, Soulja Boy, Jonas Brothers, Usher, Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus and others. The others were mostly porn. [del.icio.us/mediaeater]
*Is Apple about to start kicking ass in the instant messaging space with Apple Conversation? Some quasi-celebrities say yes.
*What? A Google project that helps you track what music you may be missing from your personal collection. [mediaeater]
*Off topic: An interview with Nicholas Felton, the dude with the personal annual report. [swissmiss]
*I am annoyed by the serif font used for posts in this new layout.
I dig the layout, yo.
And that Scarlett Johansson track is… hum… weird.
Aaron
April 21, 2008 at 9:15 pm
[...] The perfect length for a song is 2 minutes and 42 seconds. In what is the most timely and best use of Muxtape thus far, someone has compiled songs that fit that description. [via] [...]
spincitydotorg » Blog Archive » 2m42s
April 21, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Even with the serifs, Aaron? EVEN with the serifs?
Josh Kimball
April 22, 2008 at 6:53 am
Yeah. I dig the serifs. Serfis are there for readability, yo.
Aaron
April 22, 2008 at 7:59 pm
OK.
Josh Kimball
April 23, 2008 at 8:42 am
A note for your Moldovan readers: Scarlett Johansson’s track cannot be played in Moldova (or “in your region,” whatever that means).
Mark Richardovich
April 23, 2008 at 1:16 pm