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We Were Promised Jetpacks – It’s Thunder And It’s Lightning
We Were Promised Jetpacks is an indie rock band from Edinburgh, Scotland, comprising Adam Thompson (vocals, guitar), Michael Palmer (guitar), Sean Smith (bass) and Darren Lackie (drums). The band’s debut album, These Four Walls, was released on 15 June 2009 on Fat Cat Records. I recently just came across them while I was digging through [...]
Sufjan Stevens – Vesuvius
The Age of Adz (pronounced odds) is Sufjan Stevens’ first full-length collection of original songs since 2005’s civic pop opus Illinois. This new album is probably his most unusual, first, for its lack of conceptual underpinnings, and second, for its preoccupation with Sufjan himself. Vesuvius off of The Age of Adz pulls you in right [...]
Lemolo
Lemolo followed me on twitter this last week and I noticed they were local to Seattle so I decided to check them out. When I first hit play I was honestly skeptical when a extremely simplistic electronic beat started. In hopes that it would get better I waited to see if it would build but [...]
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The 80/20 Rule
Posted by Elliott on January 23, 2009 · View Comments
Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference presents some interesting theories that are directly relevant to today’s issues in the measurement of authority and impact in social computing. Gladwell hits on a variety of topics but for the sake of time I’m going to only review “The Law of [...]
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Appearance isn't Everything
Posted by Elliott on January 21, 2009 · View Comments
A friend and coworker Ryan told me about a debate developing between Mike Volpe (@mvlope) and Michael Arrington (@techcrunch) regarding Hubspot’s Facebook.grader.com today. Ryan (@ryanjin) blogged about the debate bringing in some good points that was shortly commented on by @mvlope stating “I guess my position is that while any “grade” is not a perfect measure, it [...]
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