I want to grab the time, pause it, smash its head to the wall and tell it to quit f’ing with my brain. I just don’t want to say this, I want to scream to its face.
[tags]personal, anger[/tags]
April, 2006
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Apr 06
Rocket Sauce = Hard Rock
Don’t ask me why I neglected to write about one of the podcasts that I like a lot but here it goes. If you are a hard rock fan, do yourself a favor and subscribe to Rocket Sauce. I can guarantee that you will love every single track Julie and Joshua play. It is my official energy source besides Mountain Dew and coffee while I am working on my area paper 
While you are at it check out Joshua’s other show The Search for Inspirado which I also like and listen to on a regular basis.
Technorati Tags: podcast, rocket sauce, hard rock, the search for inspirado
[tags]podcast[/tags]
13
Apr 06
Google Calendar
Google Calendar is finally here and it is online. I was able to login without any problems and I even added the iCal address of my 30Boxes calendar.
More on that later.
Update: Actually, trying to add the public iCal address created a problem. So, I just imported the CVS file that I exported from 30Boxes.
Technorati Tags: google, google calendar, calendar, ajax calendar
[tags]google, tech, calendar[/tags]
12
Apr 06
Radio Paradise
I just learned about Radio Paradise – eclectic online rock radio from Fred Wilson’s post while quickly scanning through my RSS feeds. It is a listener supported internet radio. They call themselves anti-commercial and they follow a donation based model. I completely agree with this vision. I could not see how the licensing works though and what they did to be able to stream the songs that they stream. It is definitely not independent music. I am now listening to the 192k MP3 stream and it sounds awesome. However, I have to come clean and say that I could not perfectly get what aspect of Radio Paradise internet radio “does not get better than that” as Fred Wilson commented. My quess is that it is because Radio Paradise wraps the music streaming with some social interaction by enabling ratings and comments on the playlist and each individual song and makes it easy to buy any song that is playing or has played on the station. There is also a forum and a way for people to make journal posts.
It will be interesting to see how this concept of listener supported radio will work out. Because, I think this may be a good model for podcasts as well. I know Jason at Insomnia Radio was tinkering about a donation based model for his podcast as well. As far as I understand, the business model side of this type of efforts is still an open problem.
Technorati Tags: radio paradise, internet radio, podcast
[tags]music, internet radio[/tags]
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Apr 06
European Cultural Capital 2010 – Istanbul
Looks like today’s theme is city news. I read with great joy that Istanbul was recommended as the European Cultural Capital for 2010 by an independent panel. The EU press release points that Essen and P?cs were also recommended along with Istanbul. Istanbul was competing against Kiev as the last non-EU candidate for 2010. As I understand Istanbul will be the last non-EU cultural capital since EU has decided to end the tradition of including non-EU countries in the cultural program. According to the press release, Istanbul set its theme as “Istanbul: City of the Four Elements” – a bridge between Europe and the East. The press release also mentions that the decision will be taken by the Culture Council in the second hald of 2006 under the Finnish presidency.
This comes as great news for Turkey, of course. As BBC points out “the significance of the choice is more than cultural”. The chairman of the selection panel, Sir Jeremy Isaacs said the Istanbul’s bid had been well prepared and highly effective. He also mentioned that the application had not began with either the Turkish government or with the Istanbul city government but with public-spirited citizens. Sir Isaacs also said that the advice presented by the jury was not political but that choices may have political implications.
Technorati Tags: Istanbul, EU, european cultural capital, turkey
[tags]Turkey, Istanbul, EU[/tags]