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Facebook vs. Twitter
Facebook content for the most part consists of secondary information about what you’re doing on Facebook. Its the ripples in the pool as you move around. Twitter content IS what you’re doing. Twitter is the actual swimming – you have to take the strokes. This distinction is important because intentional content creation has to be sustained. Secondary content creation is a side affect and just happens.
On Pop Music
Pop music has always existed. It’s right there in the name – popular music. That’s not to say that everything that’s popular is good. But I hardly think that one can dismiss a song or an artist so rapidly because they’re popular. Surely nobody can ignore the artistry of Beck, the riotous Rolling Stones and the rapping elite that is Jay-Z. I don’t know how to talk about this, so let me interject a brief interlude about food.
Doing Things to be Doing Things
Disclaimer: Being a mere eighteen years of age, I am perhaps not the most qualified person to be writing this. Further disclaimer: I’m not a very good writer. Proceed with caution.
I know I was supposed to post my iLife ‘09 review today, but as I was walking home from work, this seemed like a much [...]
NE Train Ride – Taking iMovie ‘09 for a Spin
Checking out the new version of iMovie. Trying out some new titles (which I like), video filters (which cannot be layered, which sucks), and video stabilization (which hardly works). I’ll end up posting a full review tomorrow or the day after.
Of Genres and Tags
I have a completely tagged iTunes library. After several hours split between the previous two days, I have looked at every song in my library, every single one of the 12,332 songs that I have, and ensured that the song title, artist, album and genre are all correct. And in doing so, I have discovered that the current method of classifying albums and songs is, at best, woefully outdated. More realistically, it’s an empty and meaningless endeavor.
