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800 days ago
For the past 9 years, I have written songs and fronted for a music side project slash band called Onalaska. This week, we released our second album, You and the Fishermen, a project started in June, 2005. Rather than finding a record label to fund the manufacturing and distribution of compact discs or vinyl, the album is available for download at the link below. The download is free, and the album is presented as eight MP3 files with absolutely no digital rights management restrictions. The album is released under a Creative Commons license that permits reuse and republishing of the content, so long as attribution is provided with any reuse, and so long as any reuse is licensed under the same CC license. To date, the band has spent $5,000 to produce the album, most of which went to equipment and hall rental, and to the purchase of a Pro Tools rig for the recording session. This is a pretty modest budget for an album, and I will leave it to your judgment to ...
833 days ago
Update: See http://www.tandoku.com/tufte for a refined version of these notes. On July 24, 2007, I attended a seminar titled Presenting Data and Information by Edward Tufte in Seattle. Much to process. Key themes: · Bullets are a despicable form of withholding information · Do whatever it takes to present the content · Do not let the mode of presentation harm the understanding of the content · Handouts are higher bandwidth than slides · The map is the best content presentation metaphor Other quick thoughts: · First and second act were strong. · The third act was a little unsteady. What did he have at lunch? · Tony Cuozzo was in attendance. We belly ached and riffed over Ivar’s at lunch as only GSO veterans can. · My Day With GFS presentation on capacity ...
839 days ago
Premise E-mail is an effective transient communication medium, an asynchronous extension to the instant messaging model. E-mail is not an effective knowledge management solution. SharePoint is Microsoft’s knowledge management product offering for the enterprise. We should use it as such. This post is written for a Microsoft internal audience, but should apply to any organization using Outlook 2007 and SharePoint on their corporate network. The principles here extend beyond specific tools, however. E-mail clients are about bringing information to one person. Enterprises will embrace tools to extend knowledge management beyond the e-mail silo into more permanent and generally accessible platforms like SharePoint which will enable a new wave of collaboration across enterprises. Problem Microsoft employees (and the rest of the corporate world) frequently use e-mail to fill knowledge management gaps. Recommendation ...
1103 days ago
Joanna Newsom's new record, Ys , consists of five long songs. Half way through the third song, the exact center of the record, the music climaxes. The second half of the record falls just as the first built. It's a perfectly symmetrical song cycle. A stunning achievement. Textures from Vespertine come to mind, but the songs, the lyrics, the subjects, the swelling strings, feel more like a play, a stage production, an epic play. There are moments--usually background parts--where her voice crawls out of its childish, mid-register nook and sails above the music that send chills up my spine. Check out the credits! Van Dyke Parks (yes, of Smile fame) arranged it. Albini recorded it. O'Rourke produced it. Bill Callahan sings on it. It was mastered at Abbey Road studios. All of these contributors are evident in the final product. What a dream team. I wish I could pipe other great records ( Graceland or Blood On the Tracks ) through this production team. This is a special album ...1213 days ago
There you have it. After a lot of work and a little elbow grease, Windows Live Spaces is live. It was a busy but relatively smooth day. Great to see the work of so many of my colleagues produce such a great service. For more about Windows Live Spaces, see the Spacecraft, the official Spaces team blog.
