Archive for July, 2006

New Sloan

Friday, July 21st, 2006

It’s up on their Myspace page. If you’re in Canada, iTunes has it as their free download of the week. It’s called “Who Taught You To Live Like That” and is the best Jay Ferguson penned track in a while. Check here if you absolutely need it as an MP3.

Zach Braff soundtrack for The Last Kiss

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Attention Garden State soundtrack fans. No need to wait for the new Zach Braff compiled mixtape for the film “The Last Kiss“ to come out on August 8th. All but one of the tracks are available on today. The tracklist for the disc is: Chocolate (from the album “Final Straw“) – Snow Patrol Star Mile [...]

Yahoo!, Jessica and DRM

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Yesterday on the Yahoo! Music Blog, ian c rogers shared more details about the new Jessica Simpson promotion that they are running. The personalized version of her new single may attract some interest from the younger set and highlights the opportunities of digital distribution. What is more interesting is that Yahoo! is a selling DRM-free [...]

Odd Job Jack – FreeJack: Remix your own animated TV show

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Odd Job Jack is an animated comedy series that airs in Canada on The Comedy Network. Earlier today the show creators, Smiley Guy Studios, announced that for their upcoming third season (airing July 22) they would be making every character, prop and background from every episode available under a free to hack, use, remix and [...]

Over In About An Hour: Vol. 3 (boom vs unboom mixtape)

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Over the past week, the blogging community (Robert Scoble, Jason Calacanis, Michael Arrington, Matthew Ingram, Valleywag, et al) has been “booming” over the drama surrounding Amanda Congdon‘s departure from Rocketboom. In fact, unofficial lipreading sources say that Zinedine Zidane and Marco Materazzi were chatting about it prior to the now famous headbutt at the World [...]

Must watch: Majora Carter

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

TEDBlog, run by the folks from the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference, has posted a series of talks by speakers from their 2006 get together in Monterey, California The series is awesome. Each year about one thousand people attend TED. Many of them are handpicked to attend – “The TED conference is an annual event [...]