http://musiclibre.org/blog Discovering web music, mp3 blogs and nerdy technical stuff Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:37:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This weekend I canvassed for Barack Obama. Prior to last Friday, I didn’t even know what this meant, but after a weekend of attending rallies, stuffing envelopes, making posters and signs, knocking on doors and talking to people in my neighbourhood – I’ve started to get a real sense ... http://musiclibre.org/blog/2008/02/04/why-i-canvas-for-barack-obama/ I recently noticed some people complaining about music blogs which link directly to mp3s hosted on other music blogs. These music bloggers have gone so far as to remove their mp3 links from their syndication feed in order to stop people linking to their mp3s. Muruch writes The more popular ... http://musiclibre.org/blog/2008/01/23/using-the-http-referer-header-to-stop-people-from-linking-to-your-mp3s/ I have devised a rough 5 point system for categorizing how mp3 bloggers are sharing their content. This is not meant to differentiate "good" vs "bad" music blogs. It just describes how people are "sharing their content". If you are knowingly not sharing your content for some ... http://musiclibre.org/blog/2008/01/18/how-to-share-your-music-blog-real-good/ The notorious German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen passed away this week.  I'm working on a Max/MSP patch and some tape loops in his honour.  Stockhausen was a God-like figure amongst music technology and electronic music composition students.  He is the grandfather of electronic music, whom we all looked up to with reference ... http://musiclibre.org/blog/2007/12/07/karlheinz-stockhausen/ When the Facebook Data Store API was released several months ago, there was some interesting analysis and general enthusiasm. I for one was pretty psyched as I felt that each time Facebook extended their API, they were creating opportunities for developers to "change the game" by taking advantage of ... http://musiclibre.org/blog/2007/12/06/facebook-datastore-api/ I went to a Facebook Developer Garage event recently in San Francisco. It was a pseudo barcamp style event thrown by RockYou and some of the biggest names in FB app dev were there, waxing economic on the state of the Facebook nation. Going to this event was ... http://musiclibre.org/blog/2007/11/26/facebook-spamming-and-really-stupid-apps/ WFMU's Beware of the Blog has put together a great page of audio mashups featuring Rudy Giuliani as himself, scaring the crap out of everyone - or at least trying to.  The last refuge of a scoundrel indeed... http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/11/rudy-giuliani-9.htmlShareThis http://musiclibre.org/blog/2007/11/26/giuliani-fear-mongering-soundtrack/ I created this screencast using Camtasia - a pretty great piece of software. This is my second attempt at doing this - the first one I built with Captivate which is cool but doesn't let you export to anything but SWF... - so I would've needed to screencast ... http://musiclibre.org/blog/2007/11/09/23/ This is the new Music Blogs application for Facebook. It’s a great way to discover new music. When you first load the app, it randomly chooses one of the most popular music blogs on the web and starts playing back the music. Behind the scenes, the application is crawling ... http://musiclibre.org/blog/2007/11/07/facebook/ The defacto musicblog aggregrator the Hype Machine has updated their site with a new look and feel, including personalized user accounts which let users "love" their favourite tracks and share them with others. It's been interesting to watch the progression of the site over the last couple weeks since they released ... http://musiclibre.org/blog/2007/11/05/hype-machine-facelift/