idk i like hiking

Where’s he going? What’s he doing next? Did he get a job at Google?

I would say that iTunes prior to the iPhone was actually pretty great. Rip your CDs, dump them on your iPod. Done.

Spotify also has curated playlists based on genre or “mood” that I like a lot better than the radio.

I want to like Spotify, but it just doesn’t quite check all the critical boxes for me. Specifically, I stream everything (I don’t want to have to worry about managing my music library on multiple devices), and I have tons of independent music produced by friends that aren’t available for purchase/stream anywhere. With…

Isn’t this the system ebay uses? You enter your maximum bid of say £200 the next highest has a maximum of £150, you pay £155.

This is exactly how programmatic advertising works.

(Sarah Koenig voice) But what would a woman who fux with boy shorts and pasties... be doing on Backpage?

season 3 of serial

This is clearly viral advertising for the new Twin Peaks series

twitter is like 90% only good for things like zola

Gawd I love Twitter.

I think it’s not so much the “horror” so much as the ability to say YouTube Red is COMPLETELY ad-free instead of “ad-free most of the time except the channels that opted out.”

I’d say it’s a bit of both. The logical “inevitabilities” are that 1) You can’t advertise an ad-free experience and then show ads with some videos; 2) Due to contract issues, you can’t show videos created for the purpose of generating revenue without ads before agreeing to new contract terms (Note: This is a big…

It’s more complicated than that with different types of partnerships and levels of revenue sharing, but basically. As a Regular Joe you’re still free to put a video of your dog up on YouTube, but if you want to earn revenue from it you have to agree to YouTube Red’s terms. The logic here, via Gizmodo:

I was angry before I even clicked thru to the article. Then I read this

Can’t wait to see the new remake of The Sandlot. I hear it’s now gonna be a courtroom drama.

Come on...

Art Vandalayism

Have you ever seen Snowden and Scissorhands in the same place tho.