Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday Music: What Alltracks…, in reply to Alfie,
I had a play with AllTracks yesterday. I can’t remember which song it was, but I got one of those annoying “not available in your territory” messages. Now I realise I can click away and view the video on YouTube, but surely with a curated playlist this sort of thing shouldn’t happen?
What was the song? If it was something on Flying Nun or elsewhere in the former Festival Mushroom stable, it's highly likely that it's sodding Warner Music up to its tricks again. It doesn't even own the Flying Nun catalogue, but has a legacy distribution agreement that its robots think gives it takedown rights.
It will have been playable when the playlist was assembled.
I haven’t worked out how often the playlists are updated. If I return every day am I going to receive exactly the same songs in the same order?
Yeah, I think they need to handle currency better in general.
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Hard News: Friday Music: What Alltracks…, in reply to nic.wise,
But “Emma” is fantastic. Spooky, haunting, beautiful and dark.
It was everywhere at the time it was a hit. And yes, it's seriously dark.
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I see The Wireless will be soliciting Top Fives (sort of like a playlist) from NZ artists all month, and asking them for their reasoning. Example: Chelsea Jade on her favourites.
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Fark.
The Telegraph's editor sends every one of its a readers an email beseeching them to vote Conservative. This is getting embarrassing now.
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All final polls now in:
1 2pt Lab lead
1 1pt Lab lead
5 ties
4 1pt Tory leadsDead heat, although seat allocations vary more widely.
See you in the morning!
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Just looking at The Guardian’s liveblog.
Killer fact: the three election-eve polls have all basically converged to a Labour-Conservative dead heat. In each case the positive movement is with Labour. In the Ipsos poll, Labour are up five points. Interesting.
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Hard News: #GE2015: Proper Mad, in reply to Jen Ferguson,
And I guess I should have known better, but I’m still sickened at the outrageously partisan, gutter-scraping savagery of the press – the 1% must be absolutely terrified of a Tory defeat.
The Election Unspun infographics linked to above by Ben Campbell are pretty stark. The Telegraph has gone way beyond the traditional partisanship and The Sun is more rabid than it was when Kinnock was leading Labour.
So no, you’re not imagining it.
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Hard News: #GE2015: Proper Mad, in reply to Kumara Republic,
It’s a Breitbart link, so I’ll issue a trigger warning.
The seizure-inducing pop-up for their latest Clinton-scandal book was pretty alarming.
But this does lend some weight to the idea that The Sun had an additional motive for showing the bacon.
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Hard News: #GE2015: Proper Mad, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I couldn’t understand the problem the UK media and parties have with a hung parliament, but I think it’s roughly like this:
Thanks for the reasoning.
A New Zealander I know in London says all the Kiwis and Europeans she knows are quite perplexed at the widespread view that taking a week or two to negotiate a coalition would usher in the End Times.
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Hard News: #GE2015: Proper Mad, in reply to Ben Campbell,
My less fortunate colleagues back in London have been doing a weekly analysis of the media coverage, using my data. Their roundups are published at electionunspun.net, if you’re interested
Thanks! I will use some of that in my Media Take roundup this weekend. Fascinating.
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