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One of my all time favorite bands is planning to make a new record. My last ever concert with Boghandle was a support gig for the Pixies in Copenhagen at Pumpehuset in June 1989.

Pitchfork: Pixies Plan New Record!: ”

Pixies Plan New Record!
Every other band breaks up, having no reason to exist anymore
We all pretty much saw it coming, but today at last arrives word from Frank Black himself. According to NME.com, the reunited Pixies hope to one-up 2004’s lackluster ‘Bam Thwok’ single and begin work on a brand new album in the coming year.

‘Since we got back together we’ve played almost everywhere we can,’ explained Black to the NME website. ‘I know we like playing and everyone likes touring together, so to keep doing that and not record anything is kind of like being a county fair band. We don’t want to do that, so the only thing we can do is become a vital band again.

‘So it’s just a matter of doing it, I guess.’

Black also revealed that a new Pixies disc is no deal without bassist Kim Deal: ‘We’re rehearsing in January, if we can persuade Kim to come out of her house. We offered to go to her but we figured if we book the rehearsals she’ll show up.’

So there you have it”

(Via pitchforkmedia.com.)

Jeg har lavet en ny klumme på Radar:

Jeg - en bruger | Luftskibet (beta)

Forandring fryder…ikke fantastisk - bare anderledes. Pingviner er meget mærkelige….

Hvad sker der, hvis ens mobil bliver stjålet i toget, og tyven intetanende automatisk sender sine fotos til den rigtige ejermands photostream på Flickr? Tjah, man ser tyvens hund, barn og barnets bamse. Syret…..

“Even the thief doesn’t have any privacy, right?”: “

Technology is dangerous! Ben Clemens is a Yahoo! employee and his mobile phone was stolen on his commute. So far, so mundane. His phone had a camera and a photo blogging software called ShoZu configured to post any picture taken by the phone camera to his Flickr photostream. Nice. The fun starts when the thief not knowing about it, takes pictures of his family, dog etc and they are automatically uploaded. Ben becomes a 15 minute celebrity.

There are a couple of things interesting about this. One is the way in which technology of ’social web’ captures behaviours and make new ones possible in an unprecedented way. It’s not about ‘privacy’ but about connectivity and ease of use. There is no longer ’standard’ configuration, the user determines the final shape and configuration of the technology used in his/her environment (phone, camera, ShoZu, Flickr). Ben remarks:

But: what a great illustration of how social media, inadvertently or not, blows away all normally private separate identities and separate worlds! I don’t just know something about the person who took the phone, I see some of the more intimate details of their family and life. Social media and applications create conditions which would otherwise be impossible. These technologies are only beginning to have a profound impact on social norms and behavior.

Another interesting thing about all this is the insistence of some commenters on Ben’s pictures that this is a hoax and some kind of a guerilla marketing campaign and no amount of Ben’s dissociation from such practices could clear things up for them. It becomes part of the story:

Despite assertions from the independent makers of the software that the tale is not a promotional stunt on their part, some Web users — who may have fallen for so-called ‘guerrilla marketing’ tactics in the past — rounded on Clemens, accusing him of making the story up.

First time I read about the story I didn’t doubt its veracity, then noticed a mention about it being a guerrilla campaign and my heart sunk. So I decided to look at the comments myself and most are from what in political blogosphere are conspiracy theorist aka as barking moonbats. It seems that any mention of branded technology bring on their condition and they conclude it must be a viral marketing campaign. As companies making more social web applications proliferate and make their way to everyday life, these people might be in danger of regular moonbat attacks. Ben repeatedly says in the comments:

Hi: sorry, this activity has taken me by surprise! Unfortunately, this is not a hoax. I am a Yahoo employee, but I have no connection to ShoZu. I am not sure what I would do to prove it’s real. The phone was taken from my seat on the Amtrak train I take to work every day, during the 30 sec that I turned my back to get off at my stop and then went back for the phone. I contacted streetfire and they are as bewildered as I am how that pic ended up in my photostream, I will change the title. Thanks to the people who pointed out that I should make private the kid’s pictures. Blessedly, it looks like the function has been turned off, as there haven’t been any posts in a few days.

Here’s a comment by ShoZu person on one of Ben’s photos:

OK. If its a hoax it not a hoax by ShoZu. Just because an image was uploaded to the Flickr account that came from the net doesn’t mean anything, ShoZu auto send option will send all photos to the Flickr account attached to ShoZu regardless if it was a taken on the phone or blue toothed over for a wallpaper.
If it is a hoax from some other source you would have to be pretty sad to upload pictures a someone’s kids to proliferate the hoax.

1 - Yes I work for Shozu/Cognima
2 - No we did not create this we have no connection with benvolut
3 - But hey free publicity is free publicity after all we are a small start-up without large viral or otherwise marketing resources.

Then sense of humour takes over:

I actually didn’t know what to expect ‘this’ is ‘legit’ as far as it goes, but I am not sure what that means?

I am not used to anyone other than my immediate family looking at my photos. Bryce is a coworker at Y!, and he’s joking. I now have a whole bunch of people at work saying that I don’t actually exist, that I am just a marketing campaign here. Maybe I can start over with a whole new persona!

Conclusions…

1. Technology makes people more powerful and we are seeing only the beginning of behaviours and attitudes affected and enabled by social media.
2. Geo-tagging would have completed the story wonderfully. Bring it on Yahoo!
3. Viral/guerrilla marketing campaigns are even more dangerous than technology for unsuspecting thieves as people can get really upset once they discover they were manipulated.

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(Via Media Influencer.)

Er der nogen derude i blogosfæren, der kan få webcastet fra New Media Days til at virke på en Mac?

Vil DFU også sagsøge YouTube? Og Google? Og internettet? Og Tim Berners-Lee? Og Uriasposten? Det bliver bare så spændende…

Dansk Folkepartis Ungdom har besluttet at indklage Nyhedsavisen for Pressenævnet, fordi avisen offentliggjorde en video fra DFUs sommerlejr.

‘Der var tale om et lukket, privat arrangement, hvortil offentligheden ikke havde adgang. Optagelserne er foretaget af en person, der på daværende tidspunkt var medlem, under den faste præmis, at optagelserne alene var til eget brug og ikke måtte offentliggøres’, siger landsformand for DFU, Kenneth Kristensen iføgle Mediawatch. Han mener, at de medvirkende er bragt i livsfare pga videoerne.

Jeg har lige “læst” (faktisk lyttet på min iPod) Chris Andersons fantastiske bog “The Long Tail” - her er en interessant nyhed fra hans blog:

Tower Records, RIP: ”

In August, it was bankruptcy; now it’s liquidation. Tower Records is no more. Last year, when Michael Markman and Technorati’s Peter Hirshberg made the fantastic Day of the Longtail video, from which the screencap at right is taken, the’demise of’the largest music chain was just a cheeky prophesy. It’s stunning how quickly it came true.

Mike at TechDirt describes what led to this end:

While other record stores began to recognize that that they needed to completely revamp their business — from becoming combination music/dance clubs and stores to starting their own record labels or becoming ‘destinations’ rather than just stores — Tower Records leadership insisted that the web ‘is certainly never going to take the place of stores.’

Et Tu, Blockbuster?

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(Via The Long Tail.)

Busted on MySpace: “

Kevin Poulsen over at Wired has an amazing story about how he wrote a program that compared MySpace profiles with registered sex offenders. Poulsen’s investigation ended up in the jailing of Andrew Lubrano for soliciting sex from a minor online: ‘In May, I began an automated search of MySpace’s membership rolls for 385,932 registered sex offenders in 46 states, mined from the Department of Justice’s National Sex Offender Registry Web site — a gateway to the state-run Megan’s Law Web sites around the country. I searched on first and last names, limiting results to a five-mile radius of the offender’s registered ZIP code…’

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(Via NPR Blogs: Mixed Signals.)

The Monks igen. Tilgiv mig. Jeg elsker garagerock…..

”It’s beat time, it’s hop time, it’s monk time!” - nyt om The Monks og The Fall: “

Et af de mere ejendommelige og uudforskede områder i musikhistorien bliver nu belyst med en dokumentarfilm og et hyldestalbum. Det drejer sig om the Monks, der gav tresserpoppen, som the Beatles ellers sad tungt på, en solid mavepuster med febervilde numre som ’Shut up’ og ’I Hate You’ fra deres eneste, i øvrigt eminente, album: Black Monk Time. Deres bedste numre var baseret på en simpelt hamrende rytme, der blev suppleret med fanatisk skøjtende orgel-freakouts og febrilsk lutrende guitar- eller banjospasmer som f.eks. på ’Higgle-dy Piggle-dy’. I lighed med et andet, afgørende band fra tresserne begrænsede de brugen af bækkener til et minimum og flirtede med feedback, og pressematerialet hævder kækt nok også, at deres projekt udgjorde ’the first marriage of art and popular music and this months before Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground.’

Nu er historien om de fem modvillige, amerikanske soldaters udstationering i Tyskland og deres forvandling til nihilistiske munke med tonsurer blevet til dokumentaren Monks. The Transatlantic Feedback og hyldestalbummet Silver Monk Time - A Tribute to the Monks, som Play Loud! begge står bag. Den medfølgende pressekonference, der finder sted den 23. oktober i Berlin, kan desuden prale af bandets første optræden på tysk jord i fyrre år.

Ved denne koncert vil flere af musikerne fra Silver Monk Time optræde sammen med the Monks - herunder the Falls Mark E. Smith, der længe har været fan. Han er i øvrigt selv aktuel med biografien The Two-Way Gap, der udkommer til efteråret og ifølge forlydender beretter åbenhjertigt om de mange bizarre skandaler, han har været involveret i og som regel tillige anledning til. Den seneste af disse medførte, at bandet under dets amerikanske turné gik totalt i opløsning, og Mark E. Smith med frue måtte finde et nyt the Fall. Det lykkedes over al forventning, og de nye, amerikanske medlemmer har allerede været med i studiet, hvor halvdelen af et kommende album er blevet indspillet. Det forventes at udkomme til foråret.

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(Via Geiger.dk.)

Computerworlds podcaster var på pletten, da Dan Larsen optrådte hos mig i Rum 3 til New Media Days:
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