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Featured Video: Anvil “Metal on Metal”
I went to see the San Francisco premiere of the new documentary about Anvil last weekend. It’s the story of the great metal band that came so close and never hit the big time. Totally amazing. The film ledes with footage of Anvil playing Japan with a bunch of other bands who go on to [...] -
Record Store Day
My Take on Record Store Day (Flickr) Like a total idiot, I forgot it was record store day until I walked by Aquarius Records at about 4pm yesterday… They were all sold out of the Sonic Youth/ Jay Reatard and Sonic Youth/ Beck splits. Did anyone get one? Anyway, I did get a few things [...] -
Twitter Round Up (Part 3): Mayor Gavin Newsom VS The SFBG
“My Social Network on Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, and MyLogBlog.” Photo Credit Flickr User: luc legay In the last couple of posts I’ve been discussing how recent popularity of Twitter shows some of the benefits and pitfalls of the rising tide/juggernaut that is social networking. I thought I’d take a small case study to look at [...] -
Twitter Round Up (Part 2): Good Twitter, Bad Twitter
“annoying” Photo Credit: Flickr User scriptingnews Though initially skeptical of Twitter, I’ve not only enjoyed using it, I’ve seen it do some amazing things. Taking the example of how to use Twitter for journalism and how not to, let’s look at who’s doing it well and who isn’t. Two examples: John Meyers, Sacramento Bureau Chief [...] -
Twitter Round Up (Part 1): The Upsurge of a New Framework?
“Twitter User Overload Picture.” Image credit Flickr user: RenaissanceChambara As you can tell from my whale friend above, Twitter has recently seen a huge upsurge in popularity. For a slightly more scientific demonstration check out this Google Trends graph: In a couple of posts over the next few days I’m going to make the argument [...]