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| Radio Bump Reply Hazy, try again.  Monday, April 8, 2002Building A Collection Of DJ Albums: "Fifteen Essential 12-Inches And Albums." I have only eleven out of the fifteen. Quite a crushing blow. There are a couple that I would put in there that they have ignored, like Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys which set a whole new standard for back beats and the Z-Trip and Radar Future Primitive Mix that might be the greatest mix tape of all time. Perhaps I should make my own list. 8:27:57 PM
 discuss [] Radio Bump (This is a test of the shortcut broadcast system. If this were in fact a real shortcut, it might actually go somewhere useful.) 7:13:35 PM
discuss [] Brent's got a Macintosh News Aggregator up on his site now. Still a few sites that need to be added somehow it looks like to make it complete, but how long before something like this puts MacSurfer in a bad spot? I know when we started it way back when, that it was terribly time consuming surfing around to find all the updates that had occurred sine the last page update. It's nice to see that all this newish Web technology does make it easier to follow the sites you want to follow. 6:05:29 PM
discuss [] USATODAY.com - Piracy pillages music industry Yet another big newspaper piece that does not really explore this issue fully. My views are quite evident to longtime readers. I buy music, and I want to be able to use it anywhere. There are lots of issues with the music companies, including the ridiculous pricing of cd's today. At the same time, I admit there is an issue here with piracy. People who can damn well afford to pay for the music they listen to are making copies of cd's for each other. I was at a friends house last week, he's a consultant for a company that does ERP software implementations. He was giving a copy of the Moulin Rouge soundtrack that he had made for another friend of mine who works in the same business. These are people who make six figures plus, not starving college students, not people who are frustrated with the lack of digitally distributed music. This hammered home for me that this really is a serious issue that is not the simple set of issues normally presented by the "Internet" crowd. Sure, I might buy more music because of the exposure to it online, but others will simply take what they want regardless of morals and ethics. Having said that, the music industry cannot point at digital copying alone for its woes, and their statistics prove nothing. 12:38:14 PM
discuss [] I happened upon an outdoor hip hop show when I was going to get a coffee on Saturday. The band was Live on Arrival, an Atlanta hip hop group that has been around for several years. Somehow I had never run into them before. They were solid, a couple of MC's, sometimes joined by others, and a band consisting of drums, bass, guitar, two keyboardists, and a dj. One word popped into my head while I was watching them: Legitimate. Really well designed and executed rhymes, and musically they are on a soulish tip. They sort of reminded me at times of the Goats, one of my favorite hip hop groups from Philly that also played with a live band. I snapped a bunch of pictures which you will find here. I'll definitely be at their shows from here on out. 12:27:22 PM
discuss [] IPod: Music to Hackers' Ears This article paints a picture that says this device has the potential to be more than just another MP3 jukebox if Apple is willing to put the time in and nurture the community. Prediction: that won't happen. 11:53:55 AM
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