http://twonotesahead.wordpress.com Aidan Nulman rants about the future of music. Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:22:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Okay, so the next step in my new writing project is the other new blog: Thoughts You Can Think About (or not) I'm treating it similarly to this blog, but I'm trying much harder to keep a conversational, not a broadcast, tone. It may split into two blogs later, one for short-form thoughts ... http://twonotesahead.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/next-writing-project-announced/ I'm not sure if you've noticed (*cough*), but I've been away for a while. A number of things have taken my attention away from Two Notes Ahead, and I'm not entirely sure I want to even attempt to put the genie back in the bottle. For that reason, if you still ... http://twonotesahead.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/what-ive-been-working-on/ You've heard it before, you'll hear it again. This time with (new, personal) examples. I'm in Seattle right now with my mother, visiting my little brother. Neither of them are "tea people". But I am (somewhat). So when I saw a sign advertising a "free tea tasting" at a small shop, ... http://twonotesahead.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/the-power-of-being-nice/ It's old news that the AP is gearing up to sue aggregators. But ever since the story broke (two days ago? Really?), I've been quietly laughing about why this seems to be happening. And, now that I'm not studying for an exam... well, it's time to blog about it. Again, it's ... http://twonotesahead.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/on-the-associated-press-google-and-your-local-newspaper/ Pardon the semi-link-bait of the title, but I finally have something to say about this whole "Twitter is a Google Killer!" or "Google is merging/buying Twitter" news-meme that's plaguing us all. And it all comes from (finally!) listening to David Weinberger's talk about "knowledge at the end of the Information ... http://twonotesahead.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/on-twitter-and-google/ But they are. Nobody wants them, as Hugh brought to the blogosphere's attention. So why do they exist? Are they a relic of some sort of archaic system when they were necessary? Well, yes. But is that all they could be? A friend of mine ran an experiment last year, just for ... http://twonotesahead.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/middle-seats-dont-have-to-be-terrible/ Sometimes that's all you really need. I sent a document I was working on to Jeff Widman last week, asking for some quick feedback. His comments boiled down to: "You've done really well on these two things, but you're slacking with this other one. You can do better." And then he prompted me ... http://twonotesahead.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/a-swift-kick-in-the-ass/ While I tend to appreciate Mark Cuban's writing, his latest post really got me thinking. The internet, he argues (or argued, since it's really just a highlight of two old posts) isn't where "the future" is anymore. It's here. Applications are being built on the internet en masse. And that ... http://twonotesahead.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/and-the-next-game-changer-is/ Sorry for the semi-self-indulgence here. If you only care about my thoughts and not about my life (which is totally valid), please ignore this post. It's nice to get these down somewhere, and I figure that I may be able to help someone with one or many of these (or ... http://twonotesahead.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/whats-been-keeping-me-busy/ [shameless plug] Come check out why I've been absent from this blog/most of my life for the past two weeks: Urinetown; the Musical. We can even meet in person in the lobby! And, if you come tonight, you'll get to see me brave one of my greatest fears: apple juice. I wish ... http://twonotesahead.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/if-youre-in-toronto/