OK, that’s all people, move along now….
Month: June 2003
bookmark_borderBleach
Right, where’s the next meme? (Galactic Toss Monkeys anyone?)
bookmark_borderWhispering behind our backs
Mike noticed it too. Amongst a few hiatuses (hiati?) that have appeared over the last few weeks, there are two which strike me as possibly being more than a coincidence. Of course it’s probably, well almost definitely, nothing sinister. But who knows what the sisters (Meg and Anna) are up to!
bookmark_borderNew Blogger
Ohhh and I’ve been on the ‘New Blogger’ for a week or so now.
Very ‘nice’ but still lagging behind Moveable Type as far as features go. However I paid for Blogger Pro and I’ll support it for a while yet. Just wish there was more info about what is in the pipeline. Ev? Hello?
bookmark_borderIt's just not cricket!
So the Beeb have tracked down the man who made Rusedski swear (and gone to some trouble to do it as well).
Mr. Zilionis (for it was he) has been living in the UK for 10 years. Obviously he hasn’t quite grasped the culture properly. Every good Englishman knows (so I’m told) that if you do something as heinous as destroy the sporting chances of one of ‘the lads’, the LAST thing you do is own up to it. You skulk off in shame.
However, in the celebrity society of today, it’s not really a surprise to see him come forward is it? Right, which tabloid is gonna give him £10,000 for ‘his story’…
bookmark_borderKazaa!!
My name is Gordon McLean, and I am a ‘net pirate’. OK, so I’m not the person that wrote the article. I’m lying. Sorry.
However, the main point of the article is true. Personally, despite having access to more tracks than I could ever hope to listen to in my life time, I STILL buy CDs. And there’s the rub.
If it’s a well known artist, and particularly if I own some of their previous work, I am more likely to part my some hard earned moolah than I would be on a CD of which I know little about and have only heard one or two tracks on MTV(2).
Now, give me the opportunity to buy those one or two tracks, at a reasonable price – 75p a track anyone? – and I’d probably happily spend the money. So the big artists aren’t getting hit, and the smaller artists stand a better chance of gaining higher exposure and earning more money.
Anyhoo, is this a good time to mention that Jann has prompted me into updating my Tune of Moment?
Why that track? It crops up on my random playlist quite a lot and always .. well… works. Ohh and it appears to be in the new Charlies Angels film as well…