Rocknerd stories, 3 weeks ending 13 July 2008.
David Gerard
I must post these more regularly.
That’s it, the Internet’s over. You can all go home now.
13 July 2008 22:40
http://rocknerd.co.uk/2008/07/13/thats-it-the-internets-over-you-can-all-go-home-now/
There's cultural preservation, and then there's the K-Tel blog.
Join us now and free the samples.
12 July 2008 23:47
http://rocknerd.co.uk/2008/07/12/join-us-now-and-free-the-samples/
Andrew C. Bulhak buys a drum machine program. He uses it for years. He
discovers his stuff is stuck inside it and he can’t get it out. What
does he do? Reverse engineers it, of course.
You can’t hide your lose forever.
09 July 2008 00:06
http://rocknerd.co.uk/2008/07/08/you-cant-hide-your-lose-forever/
You can fool much of the press quite a bit of the time, but the
markets don’t care if you run baby-mulching machines - only if you
just can’t mulch them any more.
That’s what I’d like to know. Who listens to the radio.
04 July 2008 16:15
http://rocknerd.co.uk/2008/07/04/thats-what-id-like-to-know/
The median live broadcast viewer age for the five US networks is over
50. Fox News clocks in with a median over 65.
Your premier domain monetization value.
02 July 2008 08:29
http://rocknerd.co.uk/2008/07/02/your-premier-domain-monetization-value/
The old rocknerd.org domain is now in the hands of a domain squatter.
Phoenix hairpins.
01 July 2008 20:28
http://rocknerd.co.uk/2008/07/01/phoenix-hairpins/
For those who enjoyed The Thing On The Doorstep, I give to you ...
zZz is playing: Grip.
30 June 2008 18:22
http://rocknerd.co.uk/2008/06/30/zzz-is-playing-grip/
A brilliant single-take music video, for “Grip” by Dutch band zZz.
86 year old great-grandmother hoists the Jolly Roger.
29 June 2008 18:35
http://rocknerd.co.uk/2008/06/29/86-year-old-great-grandmother-hoists-the-jolly-roger/
"In short, I turned a 86 year old Marlboro-smoking, Chrysler Sebring
Convertable-driving, Pinochle-playing, Maroon-Five listening Great
Grandmother into a music pirate. An enthusiastic one at that."
Recording industry decries humming tunes to yourself as 'a form of
piracy.'
26 June 2008 11:09
http://rocknerd.co.uk/2008/06/26/recording-industry-decries-humming-tunes-to-yourself-as-a-form-of-piracy/
With income from physical discs dropping through the floor and the
iTunes takings not being enough to sustain the fruit and flowers
budget, the RIAA has decided to take this year’s swing at getting
radio to pay them.
If it’s too tinny, you’re too old.
25 June 2008 09:42
http://rocknerd.co.uk/2008/06/25/if-its-too-tinny-youre-too-old/
I must have grown up in an era of instruments.