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Date May 2007

Daytrotter: raw tunes, FREE!

By mig

May 14, 2007 8:34 pm

So, Daytrotter is a website dedicated to recording raw sessions of up and coming independent artists and giving the tracks away freely to the world to try to help promote all the amazing talent out there that’s completely off the radar of the mediorporate tasteglomerates.

And as they went through all the trouble to present their listings optimized for Songbird, I think all birdlovers within the sound of my voice should owe it to themselves to check out their 350+ amazing free tunes.

http://www.daytrotter.com/songbird

So far, I’ve liked Dirty Projectors, The Comas, and Rock Plaza Central best. But I have weird taste so don’t listen to me — go find your own stuff to love. There’s all sorts of fantastic stuff there for the discovery.

This is what that whole “new media” thing is supposed to be all about.

mig

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Chris Messina and the Open Web

By roblord

May 10, 2007 5:57 pm

Filed under Media Web

Late last night Chris Messina of Citizen Agency, previously at Flock and SpreadFirefox.com, posted an emotional, mercurial and nearly hour-long video addressed to the Mozilla Foundation and the Web community at large.

Grievances, gripes and poignant clarity dot his polemic call for leadership and activism. He mentions Songbird favorably twice; thank you Chris.

Chris covers an expanse of interlocked topics, but the essence of his discontent, as I understand it, is this:

The open source, open standards Open Web is being ensnared by predatory vendors of a proprietary source, proprietary standards Rich Web, more aptly named the Closed Web or more specifically the Microsoft Web or the Adobe Web.

Chris closes with some self-deprecation, referring to himself as a “concerned citizen”, but as such he underscores the global scope of his lament. Fellow concerned citizens, I urge you to digg this video.

Chirp!
Rob

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