The +ve bun

Art/Tech/Music… ticks all the dv4 boxes (ta2mick)

Douglas Merrill steps down as president of digital after less than a year in the job.

It’s a swift exit for Merrill, who was recruited from Google, where he was CIO, in a blaze of publicity last April.
He had replaced another high profile figure in Barney Wragg.

The Sunday Times writes that celebrities are using ghost writers to update their Twitter feeds, with rapper 50 Cent one of the first to be outed. The American star’s tweets are written by Chris Romero, who looks after 50 Cent’s webpages.
Britney Spears has also employed staff to write her Twitter updates for her, with [...]

A mylittleponyelvis mashup
click on the king for more ponyups (Guardian)

bring on the action man madonna!

It would be hard to make a living as a musician if you only sold a handful of copies of your album – eh, Mark? But what if you were charging $5,000 or $20,000 or even $75,000? Josh Freese drummed with Nine Inch Nails and you can buy his solo album “Since 1972″ for these [...]

The US Congress is considering whether to let Ticketmaster (who sell all the tickets) merge with Live Nation (who own most of the venues and are starting to manage artists like Madonna). Most music fans already think Ticketmaster has much too much control over the ticketing of live events – a virtual monopoly, really. The [...]

I was lucky enough to wander into a tent at Electric Picnic two years ago where me and about a dozen other people got to watch Kid Carpet in action – everyone else was watching Chemical Brothers playing their CD very loudly. To be honest, for a while I thought it was just some drunk [...]

Disclaimer : Real Geek stuff below!
click on pic for full geekery…

A recent contest at CanSecWest, an event that brings together some of the most skilled experts in the security community, has demonstrated that the three most popular browser are susceptible to security bugs despite the vigilance and engineering prowess of their creators.
Firefox, Safari, and [...]

Hard to believe that in 2009 anyone would release a new OS with the top two new features being Search and Copy-and-Paste. Even more hard to believe that this would be an announcement from the masters of GUI and usability. What next? Multitasking?
Apple announces iPhone OS 3.0

A : watch this son…

for all the dads who can’t dance… chop the arm mr byrne!

biblical….
i like the bit :
“I am inclined to wonder if
there is a line somewhere in the
Book of Revelation that proclaims…
‘And a comic shall lead them’…
Click on JC.. no… sorry… JS for the truth and the light (Guardian)

eviscerated he was… eviscerated!

take
1 x 12yr old boy with new RC helicopter
1 x Nokia N95 (video recorder)
1 x iMovie
1 x Space Music
1 x YouTube
Mix them all together in dad’s office (while he is in working at the weekend)…
and bake

After a marathon 17GB upload to Cupertino our first ‘longform’ video is available on the German iTunes store.

it was no joke (eh bren?)!

Where were they during the miners strike Billy ?
Podcast of the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC).
Talk to the hand for the chat

good band2fan stuff…
what do we want : transparency
when do we want it : now

Click on Joe for an adrian weckler rant

apparently the FFail website is hosted in the USA !

Someone has set up their own Twitter website to get a job in Twitter.

If you tweet about working in Twitter will this not cause some sort of time travel mobius loop black hole randomness ?

First-week sales of No Line On The Horizon were 42.6% down on the 840,000 copies their last album, How To Dismantle At Atom Bomb, sold when debuting at number one in November 2004.
However…Thin Lizzy make their first appearance in the chart for 25 years, debuting at number 189 on sales of just over 3,000 [...]

Here is a recent installation we worked on with Clare Langan for an exhibition she was doing in New York.

pas mal ?

Robbie Williams, David Gray, Kate Nash, KT Tunstall, Mick Jones, Ed O’Brien, David Rowntree and another 200 artists gathered in Heaven nightclub last night to hear the newly formed Featured Artists Coalition declare war on the industry’s “old practices”.

In exchange for more “transparency” from labels, Bragg promises more co-operation. Although, the FAC agenda has still [...]

respek2dec

More mytwitbookspaceface tools for kids who have lost the ability to make friends.

TheBlurb:
“Peek is a social networking app that lets you find other users in your area (or anywhere, really), who can share photos and things on their profiles. When you run the application, Peek uses your iPhone’s GPS to identify your location, which it [...]

New video on YouTube in HD (make sure to press the HD bit)

lads…no leather trousers tucked into fur boots then ?

iPhone accounts for three per cent of all the Beeb’s catch-up TV & radio traffic.

more info here (Mobile Entertainment)

Ladies & Gentlemen… The Lemato
click on fruit for more GM mashups.

Good for bloody marys ?

Classic if you were Born In The 60’s

Douze points to whoever can spot the difference :

a newspaper… ummm…. what about black text on white ?
Jeremy Clarkson (top right TimesOnline) :
“Forget about getting a job. There aren’t any.”

exclusive videos : tick
bios : tick
daily updates : tick
news : tick
one touch away from iTunes : tick

available to Rest Of The World (ie outside USA) : no tick
interesting content : no tick

You won’t find this on YouTube in the UK !

tuck your (leather) trousers into your fur boots time !
warning : drinks with umbrellas in them are gateway drugs dave!

Top tips on how to vex your employees here (irish Times)

I like the bit:
“Employees need to understand that they are getting paid to work
and shouldn’t be browsing the web or sending personal e-mail,”

I like the bit :
“When customers get their content elsewhere easier
(and often illegally, where nobody gets paid)
the licensing e-tantrum can certainly backfire on both.”
Click on brand for more info (The Register)

or….maybe get all your music videos here instead !