Some quick notes. Has been covered before, but whats a blog without redundancy. Music biz would do well to read.

• ask users what they want, what they expect, what they love and what they hate
• dont ever “protect” users, especially from themselves. Users dont need us, we need them.
• make your process transparent
• your true evangelists should be your best friends
• enable and encourage your users to be part of the discussion
• get the @#%! out of the way

Listening to: Brian Eno – Ascent (An Ending) (Leama and Moor Mix)

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In response to the above unfunny bit of mediocrity, Nick Bailey of Shorefire responded on a mailing list:

“giggle.. hipsters are funny! giggle giggle… I’m making fun of hipsters… but I am one, see, but I’m making fun of myself, so it’s funny… tee hee… check my super hip references, I know what everyone’s talking about, and so do you, we’re all hip together, but even hipper, because we realize how silly it all is, but of course we still do it, but aren’t hipsters

funny… hee

* YAWN *”

I wholeheartedly agree. When will this die, already.

[youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgk9ouBuj-4]
This one’s for you, Jenn.

Beverly Hills, 90210 - Come Home - At Last! - To Beverly Hills, 90210 This November! ! !

Oh No They Didn’t has 30-second samples of the new Christina Aguilera album, which is just insanely good.

They also have three new songs from the Justin Timberlake album as they were performed live in Japan.

Check out this months issue of Synthesis Magazine to find my review of Lacuna Coil’s “Karmacode”. On newsstands now!

Boo-ya to being a published music critic, I can cross that one off the list and go on to the next.

Anyone have Anna Paquin’s phone number?

• The song that Dangermouse sampled for “Crazy” is better than “Crazy”
• Think you know a thing or two about classic album covers? Take the Legacy Recordings album cover quiz, courtesy of the good chubby white boys with facial hair at Legacy Online.

Listening to: Brian Eno – Ascent (An Ending) (Leama and Moor Mix)

via the awesome [BookOfJoe]

I was bored, so I made a carrot cake.

• The Nation just posted its new National Entertainment State documenting the 6 companies that run most of the entertainment world.
• Ricky Gervais interviews Larry David
• YouTube has a pilot by one of the writers of Scrubs about a reality show about the making of a sitcom. It’s much funnier than it sounds… The WB decided to run with “Twins” instead.
• RIP Aaron Spelling