April 2008
97 posts
Iron & Wine - Prison on Route 41 Photo by...
Flickr: Find your friends →
Import your contact list from Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, or Hotmail and see if they’re on Flickr. About time Flickr added this.
Thar she blows! Dead whale explodes. →
Ew, yuck.
March 2008
106 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-30) →
Bowerbirds
Centro-matic
A Fine Frenzy
Zookeeper
Johnny Cash
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
“William, we’re planning to add a “reshare” feature, but for...”
– Paul Buchheit, FriendFeed founder, discussing a reblog-like feature that’s coming soon to FF (via Paul’s comments)
Mashup of the Top 25 Songs of 2007 DJ...
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - Pain In My...
WatchSlow Motion Water Balloon Throwing, by Nick Campbell. Descriptive title.
Muxtape Artist / Track Search
I wish I could click on an artist or track name in a Muxtape and see all the Muxtapes that include that artist or track. If someone’s mix includes an artist or track I like, I’m likely to enjoy their other selections.
Virb 2 Beta Signup →
Virb is a cool social network for music, videos, and art. It’s what MySpace should have been. They’re about to launch v.2 of their site. Sign up for the beta here.
WatchEtsy How-To: Gocco Printing Fred pointed me to a blog post from Howard Lindzon regarding an idea for video producers to partner with sites that have loyal audiences to create viral online shows: If I was a video entrepreneur (again) or producer, director etc… and knew the tools of the web trade, I would approach the fast growing internet brands like Etsy, Yelp.com, Zillow.com - that have the...
Watchmerlin: Haircuts With Ev and Goldman. Funny vid. I like multimedia Merlin.
WatchThreadless Tee-V Episode One: Spring Cleaning
Bowerbirds - My Oldest Memory What’s your...
I →
Awesome …and the shirt I was trolling for on eBay earlier this week (to no avail). Anthony, Taylor, Zoya, Scott, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks. If anyone wants to listen in, I’m joelaz on HypeM.
La Blogotheque →
It’s always so odd to me when someone outside of Tumblr picks up one of my posts. I noticed a spike in traffic to my site yesterday. After digging into Google Analytics, I found that 400 people visited from this French music site. Hasselhoff is huge in Germany. I have France. Oui, oui!
Zookeeper - Snow in Berlin Photo from Zookeeper...
FriendFeed API →
FriendFeed launched a comprehensive API with both read and write capabilities. These guys are releasing features faster than any small team I can think of.
Hillary Clinton Strikes Back at Sinbad →
I don’t care who you are… you DO NOT talk trash about Sinbad. The man is a national treasure. Kiss your political career goodbye Hillary.
Levon Helm - Feelin’ Good Levon Helm was the...
Evan Williams: Less Is More →
An interview with Evan Williams from Twitter where he explains his “less is more” approach to developing products and services. Also check out the slightly longer interview with Evan’s co-founder, Biz Stone.
The 12seconds Barter Challenge →
My friend David Beach is working on a cool video site called 12seconds as a side project. The site is sort of like Twitter for video. You can create 12 second video messages from your computer or cell phone and share them with friends. Beach and his collaborators came up with a really creative way to bootstrap the project. They are bartering for services. Take a look at the items...
Guy Robot →
One of a kind, hand made robot sculptures made out of old machine parts.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-23) →
Harold Faltermeyer
Paul Simon
Marc Broussard
The Hold Steady
Shearwater
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Marc Broussard - Kissing My Love Photo from Marc...
Mystery Soundtrack Name the movie. First to...
Mojo →
Browse and download music from your friends’ iTunes collection over a standard internet connection. Mac supported, Windows beta.
WatchHuman Movement, by Jordan Clark (Vimeo)
How to Convert RSS / JSON to HTML?
Technical Question… Does anyone know a good tool for converting JSON or RSS output from Yahoo! PIpes into HTML web pages? I want to turn some of my Pipes hacks into simple websites, but I’m not a developer. Ideally, I’d like something that can handle dynamic variables from Pipes. For example, if I create a Pipe that asks for your Tumblr user name and generates a feed of data...
The Pointer Sisters - Yes We Can Can I’m...
Paul Simon - Peace Like a River Sleeveface photo...
Maybe You Should Die →
“dedicated to creating sweet declarations of ill will in the form of paper goods, apparel, plushes and mean bags”
WatchThe Girl Names Mixtape I’m putting the finishing touches on a new tool for discovering music blogs. It’s working great for me. I look forward to getting some feedback from some of you to see if it works for people with different music tastes than me. I have to figure out some sort of interface. Stay tuned. For now, enjoy this post I found using the aforementioned discovery tool. ...
Cool business card designs →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-16) →
The Heavy
Ray Charles
Galactic
The Notwist
KT Tunstall
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
The Wonderful World of Early Photography →
Interesting article chronicling the early days of photography. Includes some of the earliest known photos and some vintage cameras.
Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater SXSW Pick: If...
“I knew that when I was 80 I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not...”
– Jeff Bezos, book seller, describing his Regret Minimization Framework
