June 2010
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My Radio Days
I just read this great piece by Michael Byrne on Motherboard:
The DJ Is Dead; Long Live The DJ: How the Cloud Is Changing Music
I liked this graph:
The other thing I wonder about is community. I think there is a thing to radio that has nothing to do with listening to a song. It has to do with with doing something with other people at the same time. As very, very imperfect as it is, our 92Q...
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Dr. Scat, the Scat-o-phone, and Rolodexes
Am I the only one who has unread emails going back to forever? I say, “Oh, I’ll deal with that soon,” and then, you know, two iPhone OS’s later… Actually, I don’tknow how long it has been since the last OS, but that seems to be how people measure time these days. Just trying to stay hip, kiddies!
But what I was going to say is that I was finally going through...
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From New York magazine. I mean website. Whatever:
Obsolete TV Listings Resurrected by L.A. Times
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Complete, weekly TV listings guides — the kind on paper! — used to be a regular component of newspapers’ weekend editions. But then cable boxes started to carry the exact same information, without the dead trees or printing costs, and papers like the New York and L.A. Times discontinued them, while magazines like TV Guide...
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Library Saga! Part 3.
(See here for Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3)
My feet got a little heavy when it was time to return my library books. I won’t lie: I was afraid I might see the pregnant lady. Actually, I was afraid I’d see the pregnant lady and she’d know I’d blogged about her. I’m uncertain if this is paranoia on my part, or a kind of realistic consequence of our interconnected web...
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Now that I’m 31 and he’s 27, it doesn’t seem like...
—Dimple Chaudhary, the bride in my most recent Vows in the NYTimes. Parts of the story overlap with some of the themes here on Obsolete, I think. They met on a blind date.
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He said he was 23 — three years her junior. “In New York there’s this idea of prolonged youth,” she said, noting that most men of that age “want to date lots of girls, and I felt I wanted to build something...