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somerandomdude: @erik_abides Haha, sorry – forgot all about that. Reddit was down for only minutes – I made much ado over nothing.

Posted on 6 January, 2010 at 8:00pm with Comments Off

@erik_abides Haha, sorry – forgot all about that. Reddit was down for only minutes – I made much ado over nothing.

somerandomdude: Reddit is down. :(

Posted on 5 January, 2010 at 3:46pm with Comments Off

Reddit is down. :(

Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts Album is About MUCH More Than Music.

Posted on 3 March, 2008 at 12:47pm with 3 comments

Nine Inch Nails Ghosts

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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Daily Digg: Will Digg Get Flanked?

Posted on 15 December, 2006 at 11:00am with 4 comments

Fitting that the Daily Digg’s subject would be, well, Digg. There has been quite a bit of controversy over some of Digg’s methods of chosing top stories – this is another well-written description of the problems. In a nutshell, the top of the Digg food-chain essentially controls what gets to the front page – that is most likely why the same sites and the same subjects (Wii articles 24/7) are on the front page. This is obviously far from the Democratic approach that Digg boasts and smaller, less-known sites that do not have the right “friends” have a snowball’s chance in hell to make it to the front page. Sadly, the very strength of social news is completely lost in this model.

Delicious seems to be the clear next-in-line to dethrone Digg if things continue as is and people become fed up with the status-quo. Reddit is another challenger, but its traffic is significantly lower and the ability to down-vote storied opens up the door for rampant gaming – something which seems to be fairly common as discussed on Reddit.

Social media/news was supposed to be the solution to the top-down information approach of traditional media. Sadly, the “new media” seems to be taking quite a few lessons from the old school.

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