Waxy.orgAndy Baio lives hereOddpost Co-Founder Launches Bandcamp, Publishing Platform for Musicians- September 17, 2008 Ethan Diamond, co-founder of the pioneering webmail service that became Yahoo! Mail, today lifted the veil on his new startup and gave me an exclusive first look. Bandcamp is a free hosted publishing platform for musicians, taking the technical challenge out of setting up a site — transcoding music into different formats, streaming audio, analytics, payment processing, and so on. Band websites are often pretty bad, hacked together by a friend of the band with Flash and Dreamweaver,..http://waxy.org/2008/09/bandcamp_launch/ Computability: Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows' Computer Video from 1984- September 15, 2008 Election coverage, natural disasters, and Wall Street meltdown got you down Let's go back to a simpler time — 1984! It's morning in America again, and the dawn of a new information age. Fortunately, one unlikely celebrity couple is here to guide us through the brave new world of spread sheets, data banks, and modems. In Computability, an instructional VHS tape from 1984, comedian Steve Allen and actress Jayne Meadows "take us on a light-hearted but detailed tour of the ways a home...http://waxy.org/2008/09/computability/ Girl Turk: Mechanical Turk Meets Girl Talk's "Feed the Animals"- September 11, 2008 Girl Talk's Feed the Animals is one of my favorite albums this year, a hyperactive mish-mash sampling hundreds of songs from the last 45 years of popular music. Gregg Gillis created a beautiful, illegal mess of copyright clearance hell, which you should download immediately. (It's free, but I kicked in $20 for Gregg's legal fund and a copy of the CD.) Last month, Rex Sorgatz asked about collecting metadata on the album for data crunching. After spelunking through Billboard's chart...http://waxy.org/2008/09/girl_turk/ |