What I’m Reading Online
Here’s how I start my day, not always completely and in no particular order:
Half and Half - Writing about life from Robin, a Portland diner owner.
Matrixsynth - Pictures of synthesizers, no apologies.
The Original Soundtrack - Geeta Dayal’s rarely updated blog.
Philip Sherburne - Philip Sherburne’s very rarely updated blog.
Texture - Ron Schepper writes about good music in the 60/40 electronic/otherwise blend I prefer.
Woebot - Woebot still doing his Woebot thing.
Livejournal Friends - Some people I actually know in real life. At least I’m not on MySpace.
We Make Money Not Art.
Achewood - I get to read one comic online so I picked this one.
Then maybe I write something myself in these pages before answering the emails which often want me to do things, entreaties which puncture my precious bubble of timeless morning. also the coffee’s cold.
posted by randy
9:20AM,
06 Jun 2006
5 comments:
I can diss myspace. You are probably aware that it’s owned by right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch. I don’t know why so many of my left-leaning friends know this and think it’s no big deal. How you spend your money is a lot more important in terms of influencing our society than who you vote for. I think if you’re a content creator, where you put your content is more important than either.
– randy
3:03PM,
08 Jun 2006
Wow, I did not actually know that. I don’t take Murdoch lightly at all, he’s why the media is so completely shitty. What the fuck is the monopoly commision for if not to protect us from people like him.
So yeah, bugger myspace. Up against the wall for ‘em all.
Your site is way way way prettier than anything there anyway.
Thanks for the linkage, I’ve had a rare quiet couple of days on company time and they’ve tided me over nicely.
– sonia harris
3:27PM,
08 Jun 2006
been deleting my myspace friend list and stripping it down to just an outgoing link (and also articles on the Murdoch/Fox/Intermix history and politics).
I’m going to retain the acct names there because myspace has a chronic problem of artists’ names being taken by other people and misrepresented (weird, but has even happened to my friends who are in small, obscure bands!).
Here is the generic msg I’m sending out:
“
I’m deleting all of my Myspace friends and leaving my account stripped down to an outgoing web link to my homepage.
I’ve been wanting to divest from Myspace since the Fox Network purchase of Intermix last summer, and I’m finally following through. Regardless of the music promotion potential I’m giving up-- I do not want promote my music at the expense of supporting these companies.
Please email me in the future at solenoid((a.t)europa.com and djbrokenwindow(at.))yahoo.com.
“
– solenoid
12:01PM,
25 Jun 2006
Good job sir! Now to get Strategy off the bandwagon, and I’ll know three other people who don’t have a MySpace…
– randy
4:49PM,
25 Jun 2006
"At least I’m not on MySpace.”
Hahahahaha. I guess that’s pretty good.
MInd you, we can’t diss myspace. It’s why soyabean.com ranks so high on big search engines: The downloadable desktops on my site are used as backgrounds for thousands of japanese, spanish, german, portuguese, and other foreigners myspace sites. So I get loads of hits, and tons of weirdos have a big “soyabean.com” watermark all over their site. It makes them practically illegible, and god knows how they all found me in the first place. Funny myspace.
– sonia harris
9:16AM, 07 Jun 2006