Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Oh my, yes. From Rick Santorum’s Wikipedia entry: A controversy arose following Santorum’s statements about homosexuality in an interview with the Associated Press that was published on April 20, 2003. In response to a question about how to prevent sexual abuse of children by priests, Santorum said the priests were engaged in “a basic homosexual relationship”, [...]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
This is a melancholy topic for me. There was a time when my Delicious network feed was the first site I looked at in the morning, my favorite source of news and serendipitous new knowledge, and the primary repository for my short-form writing. Now I barely ever use it. I started out using Delicious for [...]
Filed in Internet, Social Media, Writing
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Also tagged bookmarking, delicious, facebook, fail, linkedin, quora, Social Media, tumblr, twitter, Writing, yahoo
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
If you want to get your web page noticed but don’t want to spend a lot of money on advertising, your best bet is search engine optimization, or SEO. As of this writing, that mostly means understanding how Google ranks search hits, and adapting your web presence accordingly. Historically, search engine results were ranked based [...]
Filed in Internet, Social Media, Writing
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Also tagged blogging, Evolution, google, recursion, search engines, seo, Social Media, twitter, wordpress
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Sample-based music isn’t stealing. It’s valuable and important. It shows the way toward a future for recorded music that’s more in continuity with music’s past. Recordings are cool and everything, but they encourage passivity. If I buy a recording, I can listen to it or dance to it, both fine activities, but what if I [...]
Filed in Copyright and Authorship, Music, Politics, Sampling, Software
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Also tagged amazing grace, blues, copyright, folk, google, Improvisation, jazz, kanye west, learning, memes, Music, Music Theory, opensource, remixes, Sampling, transcribing
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Over the weekend we stayed with Anna’s sister Joanna, her husband Chris and their adorable new baby Lucas. Chris and I spent some of the time talking about electronic music and the internet. He’s a social media professional and a music fan but not a musician, and it was cool to hear his perspective on [...]
Filed in Interfaces, Internet, Music, Music Teaching, Software
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Also tagged daft punk, delicious, design, drum machines, electronica, fun, interface, inudge, minimalism, multitracking, reason, remixes, sequencing, Social Media, tenori-on, toys, visualization, web browser
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I’ve been making sample maps, diagrams showing what songs include samples of what other songs. I’m a big sample geek. I like knowing where my music comes from the same way I like knowing where my food comes from. This map shows many, probably not nearly all, of the songs that sample Michael Jackson’s solo [...]
Filed in Autobio, Copyright and Authorship, Internet, Key Musicians, Music, Race and Identity, Sampling, Social Media
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Also tagged anthro, blogs, copyright, digg, digging the crates, flickr, hip-hop, jackson 5, memes, michael jackson, Music, Politics, pop, race, remixes, sample maps, Sampling, Social Media, soul makossa, twitter
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Friday, February 13, 2009
So the other night my friend Jesse played at the Shorty Awards with his Tin Pan Blues Band. Because it was an awards ceremony dedicated to the best of Twitter, they were projecting people’s tweets about the event itself onto a screen in real time. Some of those tweets were comments about the band. The [...]
Filed in Improvisation, Music, Social Media
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Also tagged hip-hop, Improvisation, interface, iphone, jazz, Music, Social Media, stone age, twitter
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Saturday, January 10, 2009
When you delve behind the scenes with the internet, you immediately come face-to-face with a lot of threatening computer gibberish. The most menacing codes are the ones that stand for colors, random-seeming strings of letters and numbers like #99CC66 or #4F102A. Sometimes you see colors described verbally: “black”, “white”, “blue”, etc. That’s fine for simple [...]
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Ethanhein.com has had 465,689 hits so far, mostly distributed among my blogs and mp3 pages. A single blog post about Family Guy generates a disproportionately large percentage of that traffic. October 2008 represents a typical month, with 40,611 hits total. That’s around 1,310 a day, 54 an hour. A large percentage of those are from [...]
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
I’m a visual thinker with an art background, and through playing with Flickr, I stumbled on the idea of a visual outline to complement the written one.
Filed in Social Media, Writing
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Also tagged database, design, flickr, images, interface, juxtaposition, memes, miyamoto, outlining, social networks, Video Games, visualization, Writing
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