Wired has posted a great article by David Byrne (one of my absolute favorite artists): David Byrne’s Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists and Megastars. It’s a great overview of the changing landscape of the music industry, that also includes great insights on the nature of music as a social phenomenon (read the What is Music…
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Remote Possibility: Give Someone You Love a Vegematic
Remote Possibility has posted their latest (master)piece, Give Someone You Love a Vegematic, in which they return to some of their more experimental roots. It seems that Icepac, the driving force behind the band, was nowhere to be found to comment on the song, as he usually does. Instead, we get a glimpse into the…
How Do I Look?
I’ve been so tired of the bare-bones look of sknoblog for such a long time, so a couple of days ago, I decided to give it a facelift. I’d been putting it off in hopes of finding the time to do a comprehensive overhaul, upgrade from the old WordPress 1.5 to a 2.x version and…
Le Monde Article Available Online!
I recently mentioned Plus belle, ma vie en ligne, the wonderful article by Claire Ulrich in Le Monde 2 that happened to mention me and Pamela, and led to Le Monde 2 publishing a Geeks In Love episode. In both posts, I bemoaned the fact that Le Monde 2 had paradoxically no online presence. Well,…
Pure Genius / Pure Joy
Apple and Orange (ex-France Telecom) finally introduced the iPhone in France last week (on the 28th or 29th of November). The prices were less unreasonable than expected (and besides, I can legitimately write it all off as a business expense) and so I spent a frantic week-end preparing for the inevitable. I had to update…
aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
This is my first post written on and posted from my brand new…iPhone!!! Thousands of articles have been written about it. 99% of them don’t even begin to do the iPhone justice. The attention to detail is mind blowing. It isn’t what it does (although it does a lot). It’s how it does it. That…
King of the World
As I wrote last week, Le Monde 2 published a special Internet issue in which the fabulous cover story by Claire Ulrich happened to mention Pamela and me. And of course, I drew a Geeks In Love episode about being mentioned in Le Monde. Then, Claire called me last week to say Le Monde 2…
Sans titre, by Pierre Feytis
I’m pleased to point you to a short movie by Pierre Feytis, Sans titre, which happens to feature my Orange Boy song (in French, iffy sound). I’m delighted that my music keeps popping up in strange and unexpected places.
télétravail 2.0
I’ve started a new blog on telecommuting in the high-speed Internet age: télétravail 2.0. I’ve been meaning to blog about my thoughts and experiences on the subject for a while, but I came to the conclusion that sknoblog wasn’t the place to do it. For one thing, sknoblog is eclectic enough as it is. Also,…
La vie connectée
Beautiful article in the annual high-tech issue of Le Monde 2 this weekend on « The connected life », and I’m not only saying that because the article mentions Pamela and me. I certainly am not a luddite who sees the Internet as a worrisome or scary hotbed of pedophiles and terrorists and anarchists exchanging recipes on…