Author Posts (6)

• 02/16 2012 Posted in Fuel for Thought 0 comments

  Social Media Week: Creating Music for the Social Web

  Social Media Week’s Creating Music for the Social Web panel, hosted by SoundCtrl, took place this morning at Hearst Magazines, the Art & Culture Content Hub for this week’s events. Pitchfork Media President Chris Kaskie kicked off the morning with a keynote speech, where he talked about Pitchfork’s role as a kind of music discovery [...]

   

• 01/31 2012 Posted in Fuel for Thought 0 comments

  Location Based Music: Choose Your Own Adventure

  You know those serendipitous moments when your mobile music player, while set to shuffle, happens to play just the right music for your mood and environment? It’s as if the player knows where you are and which music could possibly enhance your experience. Those instances seem to happen by chance (well, that and your apparently [...]

   

• 01/18 2012 Posted in Fuel for Thought, News 2 comments

  The Soup on SOPA (and PIPA)

  Today, several internet sites, including Wikipedia, WordPress, TwitPic, Reddit, Boing Boing, ICanHasCheezBurger and Mozilla, plan to go dark in protest of two anti-piracy bills: SOPA and PIPA. What is SOPA? The Stop Online Piracy Act (H.R. 3261), introduced on Oct. 26, 2011, is a bill that would allow copyrighters and the U.S. Department of Justice [...]

   

• 11/16 2011 Posted in Fuel for Thought 0 comments

  Twitter Music Trends

  Twitter Music Trends (TMT) is a site/app that displays which music artists are trending on Twitter in real-time. Created at Music Hack Day Barcelona 2011 by a hacker named Adam Lindsay, TMT analyses the worldwide Twitter conversations around an artist and filters out content like chatter and song lyrics to display only relevant tweets about [...]

   

• 10/27 2011 Posted in Fuel for Thought 0 comments

  Björk’s Biophilia: An Invitation to the Outside of the Box

  Ever changing, innovating and reinventing herself, Björk has managed to keep the music world on its toes throughout her colorful career. With Biophilia, her most recent contribution, the enchanting Icelandic singer-songwriter once again lives up to her reputation. Released this month, Biophilia is a full-length studio album with a twist: it is the world’s “first [...]

   

• 08/12 2011 Posted in Fuel for Thought 0 comments

  The BBMs Heard Around the World

  There is no mistaking the power of social media as a means for quickly spreading information.  Online networks create opportunities for organizations to reach the masses and for individuals to interact directly by appealing to our penchant for community, our emotions and our senses of sight and sound (someone’s working on a scratch and sniff [...]