No Place Like Home When Facebook launched Home, its super-app, many people (me included) suggested that thay had done so to get the benefit of having their own phone and operating system, but without the hassle or cost of building…
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Ciarán Norris blogs about music, media and much ado about nothing
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A Week’s A Long Time #12
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so let’s start by looking at how pictures can be worth a billion dollars… Picture Of Health? This week saw Facebook release an important update to Instagram, the photo app that…
Why I Hate The ‘C’ Word, Part 2
Last week I wrote about how I’m increasingly finding that the word community is being used in ways that I find annoying, if not downright offensive. As if to prove this point, over the weekend a number of ‘community spokespeople’…
Posted in Advertising, Uncategorized
Tune Of The Day: Creep – Matthijs Vlot (feat. Lance Armstrong)
Apparently Lance Armstrong thinks the criticism around him is petty bullshit. Because it’s not like he ruined people’s lives. Creep. More cut-up genius here.
Tagged with: 90s, cover version, indie, Lance Armstrong, radiohead, rock
Posted in Music, Uncategorized
Posted in Music, Uncategorized
Tune Of The Day: Marc Mac Presents The Visioneers – Paul’s Guitar Story
Marc Mac has been close to the beating heart of contemporary British for over two decades now. He was genre defining in the early 90s dance/hardcore movement, as part of A Homeboy, A Hippie & A Funki Dredd and redefined drum & bass…
Tagged with: 4hero, drum & bass, hip hop, Marc Mac, samples, soul, Visioneers
Posted in Music, Uncategorized
Posted in Music, Uncategorized
Tune Of The Day: Ty – Like You Never
I’m a bit of a one trick pony. Or maybe two or three tricks. There are a couple of little obsessions I have, and I tend to keep coming back to them. One of these is how ridiculous it is…
Tune Of The Day: Four Tet – She Just Likes To Fight
So, today’s tune (marmalade was always going to be a gag with a limited life-span) is She Just Likes To Fight by Four Tet. Why? Because Gilles is always playing him, and my mate Tim has been telling me to check out…
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The Guardian Likes Facebook
I just popped over to The Guardian site and noticed a bar running along the top of the page encouraging me to log in to The Guardian using Facebook, presumably based on my usage of their existing Facebook app. I’m…
Tagged with: facebook, open graph, social graph, social networks, The Guardian
Posted in Uncategorized
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