There are an above-average amount of links this week. Not too much more, but definitely more. I am continuing to write for May, so please keep coming back and get those comments ready for the special month of Comment Love. Have a good weekend.
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I keep saying that my blogging is going to start slowing down soon but extremely interesting stories keep popping up. Seriously though, I will be giving it a break soon. I really hope the next couple weeks are extremely un-noteworthy, although I highly doubt that will happen.
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After missing a couple weeks of this feature. I decided to take a couple hours out to make the whole process a lot faster. This will (hopefully) compel me to do this more frequently as my free time dwindles continually down. I would love to know if anyone enjoys this feature and wants to see it continue. I rarely get comments in these posts, so I would like to know how useful this is to you.
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If you have been reading this blog for even a moderate length of time, you are most likely aware of the unusually high amount of Nine Inch Nails articles on this site (seen here and here to name a few). Considering the general theme of this blog, I could see how this could be seen as strange to many. Still, I tend to write a lot about how digital media (which design-technology intersects with) is changing not only mainstream media, but the society which consumes it - which in turn impacts how we do our work. For the past two years, Nine Inch Nails has really been on the frontlines of pushing media away from the consolidated, copyright-heavy, corporate-run model to a distributed, grassroots, artist-run model.
Last night, Nine Inch Nails released Ghosts I-IV, an independently-produced album that is available for download for the price of $5. There are 36 songs in this album, so that $5 looks even more reasonable than ever. For those of you into the tangible, CDs can be purchased as well. Additionally, 9 songs are available completely for free - no questions asked. While this is distribution model is new, it is not new - we have seen it with In Rainbows and Niggy Tardust, each with their own little tweaks on it. However, make no mistake, Ghosts is unlike any other album distribution we have seen.
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Happy 2008. I will be back on schedule from this point forward with some format changes and some cool articles in the coming weeks.
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Once this site is out of beta, the entire project will be available for download. Check in periodically for updates.
