Monthly Archives: February 2009

The Point RIP

I was DJing there only last Friday, now it’s finished. Full statement from The Point. The Point has been a terrific place for the music scene in Cardiff. I have witnessed and participated in so many awesome gigs and events there. Just off the top of my head, who remembers Polar Bear, Johnny Clarke, Candi [...]

Do You Use WordPress? Cardiff welcomes WordCamp in July 2009

WordPress has become the platform of choice for many people, for conventional blogs and also as a fully-fledged, customisable CMS. It’s a seriously good piece of software. If you don’t care about the technical reasons, it’s very easy to use. In my opinion, that’s what a blog should be – as simple as possible so [...]

The Day I Knocked Out A Really Awesome Web App

I’m currently nursing a desire to create a really useful game-changing paradigm-shifting enormously successful web app. Bear with me because I know exactly how it will all pan out. In true web 2 fashion my app would get better as more people joined, harvesting their many billions of click patterns to form the ultimate dataset. [...]

Cached Version from Jeni Barnett’s Blog of Comments Relating to MMR

[ UPDATE 10/02/09: As pointed out by Steve Anderson below, the two MMR blog posts have been removed altogether from Jeni Barnett's personal blog - with no explanation. It doesn't exactly underscore credibility for her arguments, does it? If she would like to retract any of her statements then it would be better if she [...]

A Look at Spotify – With My Music Industry Hat On

Have you tried Spotify yet? Tucked away in today’s post on Spotify’s own blog is a file listing newly included recordings by some of my favourite labels and artists. Labels represented on the list today include: Rough Trade, Poker Flat, XL, Rhino/Elektra, ECM, Universal, Pressure Sounds and more… Artists on the list from today include: [...]