Posts by Russell Brown
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Speaking of not leting it go, here's the YouTube clip with the supposedly damning amateur footage:
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Fanks for the vote, I wouldn't say no to another bottle. I cracked open the one I won in the last round last night - nothing like that warm satisfied glow from a couple of drams over ice.
Ice!? Good grief. Still, it was a 5yo, which is quite unusual. Nice, though? Michael said it was a "great dram".
Seriously, you guys need to try harder - that stuff's worth paying for, and Russell (and the nice Galore folks) are just giving it away!
Indeed!
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iTunes is utterly irrelevant to me, and also to the overwhelming bulk of MP3 consumers around the world who don't even consider an iPod as their player.
I do kind of fret that we'll get stuck with a very outdated file format for music though, just because it's the incumbent. It would be nice if AAC could somehow become the new MP3 ...
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It's all care but no responsibility taken. I would not entrust anything important to something that was labelled "in beta".
Heh. Have you seen our masthead?
Although that's a sort of hip Google News-type use of "beta" ...
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On the other hand, getting Bat for Lashes' Fur and Gold for less than a third of the shop price is good ...
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Getting back to the original lead, although the new releases available via the Amazon store are quite impressive, the back catalogue is full of stuff that was already available as DRM-free MP3s -- ie, it's on emusic, for cheaper.
I'm also finding navigation sort of annoying, and the search isn't nearly as good as emusic's, and the selection is kinda square. In fact, it does underline how great emusic is for non-mainstream music.
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Now obviously teenagers need to be aware that the internet is pretty much a sophisticated dictaphone but I still think it is creepy to trawl through social networking sites for dirt.
To be fair, they didn't find it by trawling, but as a result of being contacted a number of times over the past few months about the page contents, and I think, for better or worse, they thought pretty hard before deciding to run the story.
There was actually stuff on that page and others they either missed or decided not to mention that would be a subject for family discussion.
Anyway, I'm glad someone took this morning's advice and took Tom English's profile private.
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To take a less emotionally loaded example, I'm responsible for my savings, but you have absolutely no damn right to come snooping around them, let alone sticking them on the front page.
Is looking at a public web page "snooping around" though? I assume you'll be taking the same indignant stance the next time the Herald bases a story on something written by some other kid on Bebo? Because that does happen all the time these days.
Anyway, I think this is a bit of a can of worms, so enough.
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I tried Amazon but it seems to be restricted to US customers. How did you get it to work?
I just set up an account when prompted. It didn't have a New Zealand option for the address (I used CA 90210) but they were happy to take my card and deliver the bits.
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Another way to look at it is this: If you didn't do or say anything when you were 14 that now makes you want to jump in a time machine and bitch-slap yourself, you're either a saint or a liar. And I don't know about you, Russell, but I'm no saint - just old enough that my teenaged arse-hattery isn't sitting in an on-line cache until the day I die.
It's a peculiarly modern peril. I talked about this last year with the America journalist Dan Gilmor, who pointed out that a future US president currently has something on his or her MySpace page that, in the present day, would be a disqualification for office. Gilmor's view was that we're all going to become a lot more forgiving.
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