I’m an unashamed Douglas Coupland fanboy and read everything he writes.
With his new book out, Generation A, he’s in the spotlight again and is being interviewed all over the place. But for an author who has a love/hate relationship with technology, it would be no surprise to see the book being heavily pushed through [...]
Central to the offering of music community last.fm is the idea of scrobbling. Every track is added to an ongoing listening chart, documenting each track and band the user has played.
Some users have played hundreds of thousands of songs and all of it is neatly displayed on their profiles in the form of bar graphs. [...]
This new anti-piracy advert is doing the rounds.
It’s an updated take on an earlier video which features a rapper called DP who warns kids off sharing their music and videos.
YouTube is full of parodies of anti-piracy videos. This legit video is so bizarre that it’s hard to know whether it’s real or fake. Underneath, there are [...]
Warning: this post contains reminiscing, nostalgia and faded memories.
When I began my career of sitting in a chair looking at a computer, in a horrible block in downtown Auckland, we would often have music playing in the office. But this was 1995. It wasn’t streamed, ripped or downloaded or even shared across a network. It [...]
By Dom Waghorn, Head of User Engagement at Syzygy UK. Just another digital content geek waiting patiently for the revolution. Or the Next Big Thing.
