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How Twitter has changed the Blogosphere, but not in the way you think - http://www.inquisitr.com/45173...
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For the love of God Paul Buchheit, be a man and put FriendFeed out of its misery - http://www.inquisitr.com/43743...
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Lora Lufark, milus, Mike Nencetti and 17 other people liked this
Article FAIL.
- Louis Gray
Liked for Louis Gray's comment :)
- Eric Florenzano
Comment WIN!
- Jesse Stay
Inquisitr, they are too tabloid
- Kirill Bolgarov
Completely agree that this is Article FAIL Louis!
- Travis Koger
On another point, why is Duncan still posting his articles to FF if he thinks it should be put out of its misery? I mean it is posted by his blog link, but still.
- Travis Koger
Traffic.
- Cristo
BURN IT WITH FIRE
- Johnny Worthington
LOL Noone read the story, he was calling for a time when it would be no more, he feels we as users should know when the end will be, nut running around with our heads cut off.
- Jimminy Fuller
You mean you're suppose to READ Inquisitr stories? I thought it was just the headlines :P
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Jimminy, I read the story.
- Louis Gray
TL;DR your comment Louis. :D
- Jimminy Fuller
Louis, what was fail about it, I'd like to at least know when the service ends, prior to it ending.
- Jimminy Fuller
The article suggests that the only way out is to pick a date it closes.
- Louis Gray
Ah well that is true, I'm trying to archive the service now, but I don't think that's going to get anywhere, far too many legal restrictions. So it all depends on how the deal was structured and if any of the team are still in control of the service. *sigh*
- Jimminy Fuller
I guess it's time to rejuvenate, er .. I mean transform the old Facebook account.
- BLOGBloke
I thought it was Zuckerberg who gets to shoot the old dog. Buchheit & co. sold it to him. Remember?
- Dennis Jernberg
Dennis, no one knows who is actually in charge of the decision, and Buchheit can let us know prior. They won't have an abrupt shutdown, I'd assume.
- Jimminy Fuller
But I don't think that if they do shut it down (and for all we know they likely will), it'll be anytime soon. And of course it won't be abrupt; Yahoo's shutdowns of 360 and Geocities weren't. If FB shut down FF abruptly, they'd have to face a whole lot of angry FriendFeeders.
- Dennis Jernberg
I don't understand all this "friendfeed is over, pick a date" stuff. friendfeed has hit pause on the evolution of features, but it was always the community that brought me here. The world will eventually move on to the point that it will no longer make sense to have a separate site here, but that will likely be a popularity vote made by us (and measured in traffic), not some arbitrary...
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- Clare Dibble
Clare, I don't mind hitting pause on new features. I think EVERYBODY expected that, to some extent. But when I look at http://ff.im/74ECA where current advertised functionality has been broken for almost two months and they haven't yet taken the time to fix it, THAT (to me) says volumes. This place has been given up for dead and nobody's bothered to notify the users. (Also, FF was...
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- Scott of Two Countries
Comment WIN, Louis.
- Roberto Bonini
Death "Throws"? Dictionary FAIL
- Iain Baker
UGH.
- Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!
AGREED, Iain.
- Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!
Duncan wants it killed, and has blocked the most important members of the community.....why does he even spout an opinion about the service? He wants it killed and just used it to piss on when it thriving....
- Matthew DeVries
I don't see where this idea of us being given fair notice of the shutdown comes from. Kevin Rose gave Pownce users what, an hour to get their shit and get out?
- Matthew DeVries
Perhaps all of Facebook will be transitioned to FriendFeed. If so, how will I access Farm Town? :) I commented more fully at the post itself, after seeing a link to the post on Rahsheen's feed. And no, you're not seeing this level of conversation in Google Reader's social features, and if you are, you can't find the comments. Google Reader's a good sharing mechanism (I'm with Louis on that one), but it's socially awkward.
- John E. Bredehoft
Google reader's Comments engine and sharing engine are fracking perfect, but where it fails is in the conversation searches, and the "What/who the fuck was I talking about/to" and the "what are my friends talking about" function.
- Matthew DeVries
+1 Iain
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I will miss the FF search when it's gone. It's been an extension of my memory for a good year now. Oh well, I'll always have GMail... right?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
How Link Spammers Killed My Wife’s Web Site - http://daggle.com/link-sp...
Steven Hodson and Bryce Roney liked this
I hate using the phrase 'death of FriendFeed'. However, I know any good friends there and I will find each other anywhere.
Alex Scoble, Kamilah Gill, Jason, Incognito and 8 other people liked this
So it is written, so shall it be done.
- Tad
Do you think Mr mango will find us?
- Oldengrey (Jay)
I'm so tired of hearing how FF is dying. Those posts make me not want to read some folks. I suppose it's because I don't follow a ton of people but the bulk of the folks I follow are still here so I've not noticed this so called slow down.
- pea
Pea, speaks truth.
- Mary Carmen
I don't want to hear about it either but it's true. Anyone who was here during the 'good ol days' will immediately recognize that it's just a pale shadow of its former self. Some of this has to do with Facebook and some of it just has to do with users losing interest, etc.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Also, unless something tremendous happens, it's more a matter of 'when' than 'if' FriendFeed goes away.
- Akiva Moskovitz
What's considered the 'good ol days'? I've been here for almost a year and a half and the only thing that pales my experience is folks like Scoble tossing the dirt on the coffin before the site has drawn its last breath. Now, I expect that from him, that's his job but others? It's just annoying.
- pea
Well, everyone's experience is going to be different but I know I'm not alone in noticing how things have changed here.
- Akiva Moskovitz
And what would replace it 'then', 'when' and 'if' it goes away? Being here at an irregular pace, would be sad seeing the service go down, nothing's like FF for service aggregation with design.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
I don't think any one thing will replace it. In fact, the lesson to be taken away from this is that a centralized solution isn't necessarily a good one. Many people—myself included—are going to an aggregate of solutions such as Posterous and Twitter. Of course, I'll be using FriendFeed until the day it dies but I'm also going to be prepared for when it does.
- Akiva Moskovitz
from BuddyFeed
Car chase
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Circle! Circle! Circle! ;D
- Nia
Now put some music to it.
- Richard A.
@Richard: You mean like the Benny Hill -show music? ;)
- Jemm
Yakety Sax!
- Michael McKean
That's hilarious!
- Michael Fidler
:)))
- © D/\\/IIID ℠ ®
Should I consider the 64 bit version of Windows 7? - http://ask-leo.com/should_...
Itachi, Steven Hodson, Mo Kargas and 4 other people liked this
Personally, my answer is: "Yes! Unless you have VERY specific reasons for going with 32bit". Please don't let us be stuck in the stone age of computing for wrongly percieved compatibility problems. If you're lacking drivers for certain things(printers, and other peripherals), don't let that stop you, bitch at the vendors to join the 21st century instead. Any hardware vendor without 64bit drivers by now should be killed on sight.
- Daniel Bruce
Yes, if you have 64 bit hardware, there is nothing stopping you.
- Roberto Bonini
The only reason I can think of why you should run 64 bit is when you need more than 4GB of RAM. Are there other considerations?
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
If you have 4gb now or think you will have in the future. Remember no upgrade path from x86 to x64 version.
- Steve de Mena
from iPhone
Yes! I made the transition several moths ago, and I plan on purchasing the 64bit version now. Love it!
- Michael Fidler
YES but if you are using some software which is 32 bits you should use 32 bits system.But if you don't have any special appz you can use and live the comfort of 64 bit.
- NT
64-bit windows will run 32 bit apps.
- Roberto Bonini
I have been running 64 bit since xp, i also have the 64 bit win 7. I am in the technical preview running Office 2010 64 bit. It will open a 184 slide presentation with nice photo images in less than 2 seconds. On a 4 year old laptop xp 32 and office 2003 I can go get coffee and come back and it is still working. The issues are your printer drivers. I am still having flaky problems with my printer driver spool. But I can live with it. I have no issues with 2 year old logitech keyboards, mice and cams.
- Robert Higgins
since i got my RAM Upgraded to reach maximum 4GB memory capacity on my laptop.. answer is yess..i need more actually..microsoft developing 128 bit for the next generation OS comers http://ow.ly/tICp
- Wildan Abdat
RT @gavinpurcell: As much as I luv his movies, I'm pretty sure Woody Allen's the wrong guy 2 come 2 Polanski's defense. http://www.cnn.com/2009...
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Retweet.com vs. Tweetmeme.com: Embarrassing for Completely Different Reasons - http://siliconangle.com/ver2...
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1 of the positives about being away is talking to my son on the phone. He talks so much now...although scarily he sounds just like me
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http://twitpic.com/eoaz1 just played with a Microsoft surface. Holy mthr of god that thing is cool #gnomedex
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All of their retail stores are going to have them too.
- Michael Fidler
http://twitpic.com/eo06g thx f%%k I have mobile data again, I've been having withdrawals
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Friendfeed 2018 - http://blogoscoped.com/friendf...
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Why is Twitter shutting down in 2012?
- Steve Rubel
Plus it will have lots more (Google) Services added to it :-)
- Martin Rix (Mrrix32)
@Steve I don't think it means Twitter is shutting down. I think it means Twitter will bar FriendFeed from using its feed ;-)
- Rubin Sfadj
This is too kewl
- Peter Dawson
Hilarious - may all come to pass before 2018.
- Todd McKinney
Love it. But 2018? I'd except to be able to get Friend.com directly through the HUD in my flying car by then... Only silversurfers (like us) would still use "web browsers" in 2018.
- Tony Ruscoe
Twitter feed not available? That may come to pass at 10:30.
- Bill Bittner
And what's up with "low karma comments"? I thought the karma thing left us in the seventies... but yes, everything comes on cycles...
- Alex von Halem
awesome.
- Tobias Boonstoppel
You've got the Google thing backwards :)
- Paul Buchheit
Hey, I just noticed I'm in the screenshot. :D @Paul: ? What's backwards, where?
- Voyagerfan5761
Actually, it missed one important thing - a HUGE ad, taking up the top half of the screen, for a substance that is just as effective as Viagra (which was banned in 2011).
- Ontario Emperor
I think Paul's saying that in 2018 ff will own google
- j1m
It's comforting that hitting monkeys will still be as popular in 2018 as they are now.
- Ginger Makela Riker
One thing they got wrong: by 2012, Paul will have started his own country southwest of Alaska on an artificial island. It'll be called Free Festivusland, and it'll get the top-level domain “ff”. FriendFeed will then be http://ff/ — no dots or coms or nets or orgs.
- Amit Patel
@Amit P. ROFL .. very funny
- Steven Hodson
@Jason lol :D
- Voyagerfan5761
I think the web will be voice and audio driven in 10 years, or at least it will be available. There's even some startup now that can sense nerve pulses to the vocal chords to know what you'll say before you actually say it.
- Mike Reynolds
I think comments won't be replaced by nested commented, just like @ in twitter, many people like this.
- terababy
Mike Reynolds, now I'm scared. Very scared. I'll get myself in trouble before I actually hear what I'm saying (rather than after).
- Ontario Emperor
For some reason, the Facebook deal makes this future user interface look more likely.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Excellent free burning program ImgBurn turns 2.5 - http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009...
Mac Sharp, viv, Susan Beebe and 7 other people liked this
"It's an excellent lightweight program, handles just about every kind of disc-related task imaginable, and it's totally free. Version 2.5 boasts a big list of additions, changes, and bugfixes, though the core functionality remains the same. It still burns discs and creates images as well as any program out there (if not better). ImgBurn can also run as a portable app, perfect for carrying on your USB flash drive for burning on the go."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
ImgBurn is awesome.
- Tim Hoeck
Flickchart to Flickchart's feed, Nathan Chase, Jeremy Thompson, Sue Radd, Parth Awasthi, David Cook - 2010!!!, Glenn Slaven, Michael W. May, Louis Gray
Since so many of you had taken it upon yourselves to share those really tough matchups, we created a way for you to share them directly to FriendFeed from within Flickchart! Thanks to all of you for inspiring this new feature!
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Steven Perez, Louis Gray, Kol Tregaskes and 15 other people liked this
Here are some of the inspirational posts: http://friendfeed.com/logical... - http://friendfeed.com/joffi... - http://friendfeed.com/jhuebel... - http://friendfeed.com/sueradd... - http://friendfeed.com/akiva... - http://friendfeed.com/haggis... - http://friendfeed.com/parthaw... - http://friendfeed.com/skizzli... - http://friendfeed.com/dalziel...
- Flickchart
If you can add in the ability to include initial comment, like the bookmark does, that would rock. But I love the choice to share, and it looks great in the feed :)
- Michael W. May
@Michael - good idea - we'll see about working that into a future build. Thanks!
- Nathan Chase
Great feature and I'll second MWM's comment.
- Parth Awasthi
Michael: +1, Nathan: This is simply great!
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
All the girls say I'm pretty fly for a #FFFFFF guy
raphaeL, Jason, Incognito, rowlikeagirl and 57 other people liked this
lol, Josh :)
- WorldofHiglet
I used to be pretty #6B5000 back in the day, but not anymore. ;)
- Josh Haley
haha that was funny! =P
- Dani Figueiredo
Well played!
- Jared Smith
*courtsies*
- Josh Haley
Once you go #000000, you never go back.
- Akiva Moskovitz
HAHAHAHAAH!!!!!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
...#0000FF.
- Akiva Moskovitz
The way I won over Akiva back in the day was by telling him what color his eyes are in hex. True story.
- Rochelle
True story. I used to have the hexcode saved but it died in the Great Unix Lightning Disaster of 2002.
- Akiva Moskovitz
geek check!
- Josh Haley
Your geek is showing! lol
- Mathew™ one of a kind
LOVE that story, Rochelle!!
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
<bumps> Oops. Did I do that?
- CAJ, somewhere else
uno dos tres quatro cinco cinco seis
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
dude, you count like my daughter,.
- Carlos Ayala
I never had any problems thanks to my #DFCC33 skin
- Jorge Escobar
DING DING DING - This thread has won the geekiest thread of the day award. Well done, all.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
And I mean that only in the best of ways, no worries. ;)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I want this on a shirt!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
We can make that happen, Haggis.
- Josh Haley
LOL! I didn't notice until JUST NOW that this post is from November. Never mind geekiest thread of the day - make that geekiest thread of the year.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I'm ahead of my time!
- Josh Haley
Now is one of those times I really wish that comments had timestamps. In seconds since the epoch on a thread this geeky.
- The Letter M
Ah, I remember this post when it was new and fresh. Of course, the subsequent implementation of hashtags causes bumpage and accidental double-layered geekery. I think this redefines Win.
- Slappy Line
I like Sir Slippy of Slippington.
- Trish Haley
World’s First Digital Camera
Digital Camera Reviews, Aaman (Clone of FF), Drea and 38 other people liked this
In December 1975, Kodak engineer Steve Sasson invented something that would, decades later, revolutionize photography: the world’s first digital camera. It was the size of a toaster, and captured black and white images at a resolution of 100×100 - or 0.01 megapixels in today’s marketing terminology. The images were stored on cassette tape, taking 23 seconds to write. The camera uses an ADC from Motorola, a bog-standard (for the 1970s) lens from a Kodak movie camera, and a CCD chip from Fairchild Semiconductor - the same technology that digital cameras still use today. To playback the images, a special computer and tape reader setup (pictured below) was built, outputting the grainy images on a standard TV. It took a further 23 seconds to read each image from tape.
- Carlos Ayala
Wow, 1975. I had no idea.
- Admiral Anika
A cassette tape! Great.
- John Cooper
one of my first digital cameras had a resolution of around 1 megapixel and cost about $1,000. now you can get ten times as many pixels for about 1/10th the price :-)
- Karim
WANT!
- Christopher Harley
Greta Garbo forever!
Anıl Yügen, Rachel Lea Fox, Smeerch and 37 other people liked this
Erkekler güzellik anlayışı olarak ikiye ayrılır derler: Greta Garbo tarzı kadınları seçenler ya da Marilyn Monroe'cular... Ben Greta Garbo derim her zaman... Ya siz?
- Fatih Taşkıran
Hala yanlış yoldasın kardeşim :) Marilyn Monroe tabii ki. Sorulur mu?
- Aziz Aydın
Greta Garbo'nun filmlerini izledin mi Aziz, bence izle hem de ne kadar filmi varsa izle sonra bir kez daha düşün :)
- Muge Cerman
Sevgili TT, Aziz'i boşver. O yıllardır öyle; değişmez, büyük sözü dinlemez :) Az önce, Guinness Rekorlar Kitabında Garbo'dan "şimdiye dek yaşamış en güzel kadın" olarak söz edildiği iddiasını da okudum ya, başka da bir şey demiyorum ;) Via: http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Fatih Taşkıran
kedimin isim anası. o derece yani :)
- Şenay Şen
Arkadaşlar yapmayın, "şirinlik, seksilik" kadar basit değildir Marilyn'i ifade etmek. Anahtar kelime burada "dişi"dir. Greta Garbo güzel olabilir, asil ve tam bir hanımefendi de durabilir. Ama bence "dişi" değildir. Gerçi filimlerini izlemedim, bilemeyeceğim. Bu arada "TT" nedir ya?
- Aziz Aydın
Geçer işte :)))
- sunipeyk
Aziz, "Dişilik" tip ile olmaz, davranışlarda gizlidir. Bence de TT'nin tavsiyesine uy ve bir filmini izle kardeşim. "Dişilik" bu kadar mı asaletle birleşir bir gör Bana hak vereceksin. Dubai'lerden ahkam kesmek kolay. Önce TT'nin anlamını öğren sen :) Sevgili TT, söz sende (öldürücü darbe pası) :)
- Fatih Taşkıran
Özge :) Ya hatun 1905 doğumlu, 1990'da öldü. Yaş 85, el insaf... Belden aşağı vuracaksak bir de Marilyn'i gör derim: http://www.celebritymorgue.com/marilyn... :) Ki Marilyn 36 yaşında öldü. Bilemiyorum artık (Kill Bill modu :D )
- Fatih Taşkıran
FT Üstad, Aziz Üstad filmleri izlesin sonra konuşalım. Ben cani miyim neden öldürücü darbeler vurayım arkadaşımıza. Garbo'nun bakışları onu koltuğuna mıhlamaya yetecektir zaten :) Bu arada TT benim lakabım Tekno Teyze'nin kısaltması sevgili Aziz.
- Muge Cerman
Ama bu başlık ikisinin kıyası için sadece (Bu da mızıkçı modu :) )
- Fatih Taşkıran
Bu arada MM'yi sevmediği sanılmasın onun da yeri ayrıdır. GPB en sevdiğim filmlerdendir. Sonra Yves Montand ile oynadığı ve "My heart belongs to daddy" yi söylediği sahne de müthiştir.Ama Garbo tabii farklı.
- Muge Cerman
TT işte budur... Aziz'e müstehak... Sen vur, elini korkak alıştırma :) FF erkekleri bıraktı, konuyu kadınlarla tartışıyoruz. Olsun ama, "kadından anlayan kadınlarla" tartışıyoruz :)
- Fatih Taşkıran
Ya tamam... İzleyeceğim hatırınız için. Ama hiç de büyük beklentilerim yok. Şimdiden söyleyeyim ;) Var mı favori filminiz bari? Vaktim boşa gitmesin :) Müge Hanım, sağolun. Artık ben de size "TT" diyebilir miyim?
- Aziz Aydın
Aziz: Anna Karenina, Queen Christina, Grand Hotel... Bu üçlüyü mutlaka gör diyorum, başka da bir şey demiyorum... :)
- Fatih Taşkıran
Ahaha. Şöyle de bir şey varmış bu arada: http://www.garboforever.com
- Fatih Taşkıran
I have that stamp :D
- Bibi
@Bibi, pretty cool :)
- Fatih Taşkıran
I asked in my blog if someone could send me, and I got some. They were released in US and Sweden.
- Bibi
Aziz Üstad, sevinirim.
- Muge Cerman
O değil de: şunu gördüm, saygı duydum hakikaten şimdi: http://sozluk.sourtimes.org/show...
- Aziz Aydın
Kadın demişken... Ben bu başlığı hortlatırım be! Greta Garbo always forever! :D
- Fatih Taşkıran
Kadın dediğin böyle olur, böyle olur, böyle olur...
- Aziz Aydın
One Cynical Bastard Speaks Out on Trolls [Arrington vs. Laporte] - http://rizzn.com/blog...
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Ninja Star Push Pins Emphasize Your Message - http://www.markstechnologynews.com/2009...
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Amazing Transparent Bathroom Floor [PHOTO] - http://www.inquisitr.com/25439...
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Wow.
- l0ckergn0me
1205585968_13_03_2008_0486281001205.jpg on vi.sualize.us - http://ffffound.com/image...
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Moby – Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? - http://www.last.fm/music...
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Great song!
- Brandon
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- Michael Fidler
Why Kara Swisher is More Wrong About Wronger - http://staynalive.com/article...
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Gotta give you points for the picture matching the content here, Jesse.
- Tom Landini
And I wonder about writers who confuse your and you're.
- Tom Landini
Tom, agreed, although I do that occasionally when I'm not paying attention. If I had an editor there would be no excuse though.
- Jesse Stay
Me too, but I've been seeing it more and more lately.
- Tom Landini
I'll be your editor for a few bucks, Jesse ;)
- Luke Stay
Luke I just gave you a Dave Matthews album - what else do you want? :)
- Jesse Stay
Hahaha, touche. What's the best way to contact you with notes on articles?
- Luke Stay
Luke, you can either e-mail me or just tell me in the comments.
- Jesse Stay
Are you guys related?
- Admiral Anika
Anika, yes, Luke is my younger brother
- Jesse Stay
Ah, okay. Hi, Luke!
- Admiral Anika
Ouch. Just looking at that image is making my skin crawl, even without actually hearing the nails-on-chalkboard.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Haha! Hi, Anika!
- Luke Stay
دست های مازیار وقتی خشک خشک ...... =))
- Mil∂d
I've always been (and still am) a huge fan of the album. When I listen to music, I put on an album, listen to the whole thing, then move on to another. However, as time has passed, the quality of albums as wholes has decreased steadily; more often than not, I'll find myself liking only one or two tracks from a record.
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So I've been buying individual songs lately and it's a strange psychological shift. In fact, I almost feel like I'm betraying something even if its just my own dedication to the album as an entity. And I've been becoming more interested in Genius List shuffle mode or whatever it's called just by looking at what RAPatton posts. So, uh, yeah. Is the album a step closer to death as one of its most staunch supporters begins tip-toeing across the line into singles land?
- Akiva Moskovitz
I concur.
- Parth Awasthi
I think this means you've sold out to pop *unsubs*
- LogEx
[sobbing]
- Akiva Moskovitz
I'm with LE. Not on selling out, but on unsub/blocking Akiva for sure.
- Sparky
I've kind of gone the other way. When digital music first came out, I was happy just grabbing a few tracks off an album (and before digital music, I'd only like a few tracks off an album and skip the rest). Now I always get the whole thing and rarely skip songs.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
The music industry has changed so much, Akiva. Artists really aren't cultivated and developed over time anymore. It's about the hot single, the hot download, the hot ringtone (?). I remember putting on Innervisions and listening ALL THE WAY THROUGH...putting on Sign O The Times, and listening ALL THE WAY THROUGH. I think the change in how we literally listen to music (double click to play! as opposed to putting a needle on a record) has had something to do with that.
- Derrick
There's very few full albums I've ever liked. The only ones I thought you were supposed to listen to from beginning to end were the concept albums that Floyd, Led Zepplin, The Who, The Moody Blues, and more currently Radio Head and Coldplay were famous for, where each track is like a chapter of a story. I mean, from my youth, Slippery When Wet, License to Ill? None of those tracks needed each other to be appreciated.
- Matthew DeVries
I have better luck finding quality albums by picking random bands or individuals I've never heard of. 99% of the time I'm looking forward to someone's new album it's a disappointment.
- Robert DeBord
Its been the age of the single ever since the next track button was designed.
- C Wylie Misselhorn
I still find it hard to buy 1 track on an album. I usually grab the whole thing, even if I don't love it. I don't hav to listen to the tracks I don't like. and I've had times when I've re-discovered songs I previously disliked.
- jbrotherlove
Colleges stations used to on Sunday nights play full albums beginning to end, have they stopped?
- Matthew DeVries
I've never really liked the album - I don't have the attention for it. I like music of the moment. I am anal about rating my music, and usually just hit shuffle on a playlist that's a 5:2 ratio of 5* to 4* tracks.
- Sparky
yes. And I will miss albums too, but if you look back far enough... actually, not even that far, early to mid 60s... albums were regarded mostly as simply collections of songs by one artist. The idea of an album as a cohesive whole came later. You could argue that the rise of digital music has actually brought us back to a refashioned version of that era, when it was all about the song...
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- Jim in Real Time
Hot singles -- sounds like a return to the '50s and early '60s
- Brian Sullivan
Akiva, boy we're gonna destroy your mind when we get around to tuneschart. ;)
- Nathan Chase
Seriously, you two are out to kill me dead.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I've not bought an album since The Emimem Show circa 2002 and haven't missed a beat...pardon the pun :o)
- sofarsoShawn
D, when I was a teenager, I would listen to an album all the way through while reading along with the lyrics. And you're right, too, that it's the mode of delivery and listening that changes everything. With cassettes, it was a pain in the ass to get to a particular song (at least until they started producing tape decks that could seek to silence). But, I think the primary behind this...
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- Akiva Moskovitz
Jim, also a fantastic point. I'm beginning to wonder if the album isn't going to go back to being merely collections of songs recorded over a particular period.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I don't think this is a change at all, Akiva. Most music is crap. Most has always been crap.
- Alex Scoble
Is that Alex Scoble, or Indie Rock Pete?
- Matthew DeVries
Alex, that's easy to say about anything. Most novels are crap. Most has always been crap. Most cereal is crap. Most has always been crap. Like anything, it's about how you filter it. I have a good music collection because of what I choose to own. I ignore the crap and so it doesn't even figure into it. Just ten years ago, Neutral Milk Hotel put out one of the greatest albums ever...
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- Akiva Moskovitz
Yeah, Akiva...I guess my point is that the music industry has, for a very long time, been in the business of promoting singles. I don't think that most studios really give a rats ass about the art side of the equation. They just want a few songs that will be hits. You are probably right though in that it is worse these days because of the growth in the number of artists...also the fact that now it's incredibly convenient to buy single songs online doesn't help. Which you've already stated.
- Alex Scoble
By the way, where are you buying your songs from and in what formats?
- Alex Scoble
I use iTunes and download in AAC or whatever the iTunes Plus format is. Also, you're right when you're talking about major labels but independent labels (even the large ones like Sub Pop) still focus on the art and the band. You need to get away from Clearchannel and start looking at the Loveless and Merge Records of the world.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, I was about to make that point. I mostly listen to bands on indie labels, and though they don't always have albums in the sense of cohesive wholes that need to be listened to all together, in order, they seem to have a more even quality level throughout the songs. I don't have a problem putting artists on random, for example, but there aren't any songs I skip.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Hehe, hey now...you know I'm not using Clearchannel to find music. I mostly listen to electronic, but even there stuff is uneven. Doesn't help that I have very specific tastes in songs. Pendulum's Granite is a good example of the kind of song that I like. Varying tempo, good hooks, a bassline that gets your ass moving, etc. Whereas a lot of electronic stuff is the same tempo droning on for 5 minutes with no hooks and a weak bassline.
- Alex Scoble
Alex, good point: electronic music is a completely different beast. It's a rare day in hell you find an electronic album that isn't anything more than a collection of independent tracks. You could argue that, say, Burial's releases are albums in the classic sense of the word but I would counter-argue that that's only because the songs are so homogenous in tone and theme. In rock music,...
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- Akiva Moskovitz
Woah. That Pendulum track. Do not like!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Hehe and now it's quite obvious that we have completely different tastes in electronic.
- Alex Scoble
Yeah, I usually don't like main room stuff like that. In general, I lean more toward experimental artists like Fennesz, Pan Sonic, and Fuck Buttons.
- Akiva Moskovitz
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