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Musicians Only Made 12% of the Music Industry’s Revenue
We were talking about this the other day. When I have a moment, I will drop a link back here.
Facebook throws an extra $10m at Zuck’s personal security
Two reasons people spend money on personal security
- inflated self worth
- real threats to their personal safety
In Zucks case there is a little of both going on, but I’d focus on the latter for his hypocrisy.
“Twitter is not the public square. It just wants you to think it is. The web itself is the public square.”
Brent Simmons
… very @dave like thought and spot on.
Apple responds to US lawmaker concerns about tracking.
“The customer is not our product, and our business model does not depend on collecting vast amounts of personally identifiable information to enrich targeted profiles marketed to advertisers.”
Tim Cook and @Manton Reece
Alex Jones has not been barred from speaking ... he’s just had his microphone taken away.
‘Cory’ himself commenting on the Alex Jones stuff … nowhere connecting the ‘amplification’ aspect that @manton raised yesterday(?) … how do we move that thought into wider mainstream thinking?
China to ignore Trump sanctions, continue doing business with Iran
… would it be unpatriotic of me to say .. at least in this case .. ‘Go China’.
Every day it seems we find another shadow ‘organization’ sticking their nose in to business outside of their jurisdiction and bypassing normal channels.
I Changed The Password Anyway … Good Practice
Journalism Needs To Be Saved Before It Is Too Late … John Oliver from two years ago!
🎵 ZZTop’s “Legs” and U2’s “Streets Have No Name” are the same song
… no really - click through and have a listen.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach can legally oversee recount in his own race for governor
… and so would be a perfect time to recuse himself … but I’m not holding my breath … are you?
A beautiful pedestrian bridge in Vietnam
"This new pedestrian bridge at the Sun World Bà Nà Hills resort near Da Nang, Vietnam is really something else. From Colossal:"The Full Story
Listen: ZZTop's "Legs" and U2's "Streets Have No Name" are the same song
"Aaron Oppenheim writes, "I made a lil lazy mashup of Legs and Where The Streets Have No Name (just t"The Full Story
🎵 Oh My:
John Etheridge guitar
Theo Travis flute, sax, Fender Rhodes piano
Roy Babbington bass guitar
John Marshall drums
Soft Machine
Hidden Details (new album)
WorldWide Tour
And one Bay Area Gig at ‘Freight and Salvage’ … next year.
‘Freight and Salvage’? Really ?
For whatever reason I routinely type ‘from’ and it regularly gets input as ‘form’. Sadly I can’t use auto correct - because I do use ‘form’.
The Web stopped to be an HyperText medium serving people. It became a marketing platform serving personal data collection.
Each click, scroll down or zoom became an observable event that can be recorded to profile a user.
…and JavaScript became a weapon
Apple chip supplier TSMC admits downtime caused by unpatched Windows systems
… doesn’t anyone … ever … learn … anything?
The eighth in my series …
‘Real Stories of Real People – Travels Without Charley’
has been published on BIZCATALYST 360°.
“Sarah. Alone. Nobody with her. Imagine what they could have learned had they sat beside her. Talked to her."
The seventh in my series …
‘Real Stories of Real People – Travels Without Charley’
has been published on BIZCATALYST 360°.
“John and Mary’s truck has broken down. Completely. And they seem just fine with that."
Facebook has begun internally testing its dating feature
So Facebook staff are all dating each other?
Suggest their Public Beta could be the Whitehouse since I’d heard that interns there need to lie about what they do to even get a date in D.C.