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Monthly Archives: February 2004

Geek Disaggregator.

Congratulations to Scoble for cutting down on his Blog entries. I’m now able to keep up with your rants.

iTune Obsession.

I’ve been mildly obsessed with iTunes and my iPod in the last couple of weeks. First ensuring that all the tracks are correctly dated to the year they were recorded, and now adding the beats per minute (BPM). That way I can utilise a fabulous feature of the application, creating Dynamic Playlists. Having the date correct means I can get very nostalgic and listen to the tracks from the 80s. Having the correct BPM means I get to listen to tracks that pump me up, or calm me down. I’m currently testing Ask the DJ in finding the correct BPM count. It seems to be fairly accurate.

If anyone has some great ways of utilising iTunes, I’d love to hear them.

No Longer Black And White.

Tuesday, February 24 will be a day of coordinated civil disobedience: websites will post Danger Mouse’s Grey Album on their site for 24 hours in protest of EMI’s attempts to censor this work.

DJ Danger Mouse created a remix of Jay-Z’s the Black Album and the Beatles White Album, and called it the Grey Album. Jay-Z’s record label, Roc-A-Fella, released an a capella version of his Black Ablum specifically to encourage remixes like this one. But despite praise from music fans and major media outlets like Rolling Stone (“an ingenious hip-hop record that sounds oddly ahead of its time”) and the Boston Globe (which called it the “most creatively captivating” album of the year), EMI has sent cease and desist letters demanding that stores destroy their copies of the album and websites remove them from their site. EMI claims copyright control of the Beatles 1968 White Ablum.

For all the details visit Grey Tuesday.

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