It’s blatant advertising time now, with the new CD from Arkady Rose of this parish just released today!
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Category: Rocknerd
News about the site itself.
Art Damage through Self-Referentialty
In the early 90s I was introduced to the notion of “art damage”, appearing as an editorial rant in the glorious glossy cyberpunk magazine, Mondo 2000, now sadly forgotten by most.
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Links: BitTorrent “web” client, the women of Rolling Stone, Deerful how-to, “Despacito” on kazoo.
I can kazoo this on my own.
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HARKII Of Sound Mind podcast Episode 1: “Why I don’t think blockchain will change the music industry.”
In which I go on a podcast and talk about why blockchains are still trash, particularly for music. Don’t fall for resentment-based marketing!
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Links: “Rasputin”, DIY Spotify payola, Thriller, Tommy Keene.
Please forgive my neglect, I love you really.
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Links: Venue archaeology, winning fair use on YouTube, M’era Luna, I wrote a textbook.
You can guess which of these I’m particularly excited by.
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Links: Musical blockchains again.
Not all about me, for once!
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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain paperback is out!
And to celebrate, a picture of Mr. Bitcoin.
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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain is out!
IT IS OUT! PEOPLE QUITE LIKE IT!
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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: out July 24, pre-orders open!
My book is scheduled! Sign up to give me your money!
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Links: Jennifer Lynch photo archive, DMCA spambots, everyone hates blockchains, buzz buzz buzz.
Go send some money Jennifer Lynch’s way. Cultural preservation calls!
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Links: Disney piracy hoax, New Order and Sunkist, wear yer earplugs, more Rocknerd in Hypebot.
♪ How does it feel
When a new day has begun
When you’re drinking in the sunshine
Rocknerd is the one ♫
It’s the buzz buzz buzz in the drum of the ear.
Obviously I’m just jealous of the audiophiles.
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Links: Blockchain BitTorrent, Kim Dotcom movie, my Blockchain book interview.
Bram Cohen, Kim Dotcom and David Gerard. Only blockchains bind them.
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Links: uTorrent, bogus RightsCorp DMCA notices, International 8-Track Day.
Ignoring the previous National 8-Track Day, of course.
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Links: Roland founder dies, workplace entrance themes, BitTorrent repivot.
And some notes on The Book.
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Links: Cogent overblocking again; 3800 pirate sites blocked in UK; blockchain!
Pirates and blockchains. Arrr.
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Links: pop star tech gurus, Denuvo hacks itself, don’t play DRMed content in a Tor browser.
And some notes on yesterday’s ridiculously popular post.
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Rocknerd v1 recoveries.
Nearing the bottom of the barrel with the Rocknerd v1 recoveries. Look through the list and let me know any favourites you think particularly warrant retrieval.
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Rocknerd is now fully SSL-enabled! How to do this yourself.
Rocknerd is now served over SSL. Please try https://rocknerd.co.uk/ on all your gadgets and let me know of any problems. Here’s the technical detail of how I applied this to WordPress.
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Attack of the 50 foot blockchain!
I have finished the raw first draft of the Bitcoin/blockchain book. Current word count 30,410 (or 35,546 if you include the footnotes). This was supposed to be a 15,000 word rant before lunchtime …
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Latest Rocknerd v1 recoveries.
More recoveries, lovingly hand-ported from archive.org. Obviously I’m easily bored on weekends. These are from 2001 and 2002.
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More recovered articles from Rocknerd v1.
A few more recoveries, lovingly hand-ported from archive.org. Wind the schadenfreude back to 2001-2002. RIAA hacks! The Continental Cafe! The Vivendi Universal meltdown!
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More Bitcoin spammers for your amusement, or mine at least.
Two copies of this just hit the email box. Why don’t you follow the link they want to give me $30 to put their link on. I’ll just be waiting here.
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Get rich with Bitcoin advertising on Rocknerd! [citation needed]
Today I got an email from a Bitcoiner offering a mutually beneficial business proposition! He wanted me to add a “text link” to a post (neither text nor link included in proposal) for a whole FORTY DOLLARS. That’s as many as four tens, you know!
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More digital archaeology: recovered articles from Rocknerd v1.
Well, this is a useful thing. Somewhat useful, anyway — the actual database is long lost, so porting the articles to WordPress involves cut’n’paste and fix the dates by hand. Yes, including the comments. So don’t expect anything like the lot. Any particular favourites you think should be ported, let me know.
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Come see a new Rocknerd theme!
test.rocknerd.co.uk is a temporary copy of Rocknerd as of about 9pm yesterday, currently featuring the Matata theme, as suggested by Lev. I’ve recategorised, tagged and excerpted the front page of posts and it took me all evening, so don’t expect anything before then to be done.
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Music designs by Arkady Rose. And more.
It’s shilling time! The loved one is an artist and sells quite a lot of the designs. Full catalogue on Redbubble and Spreadshirt. In particular the music selection.
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Suggest a new theme for Rocknerd!
Rocknerd uses Kubrick, the most tediously basic WordPress theme that was all the rage in 2008. It’s possible we could do with an update.
So! I would welcome your valued suggestions on how to make the site look more like an interesting and perspicacious music magazine. Free themes by preference, we’re not big on budget resources around here …
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Hey, sign up for the emails!
See that box at the right of the page saying “Subscribe to Rocknerd via email”? It does what it says. Sign up and you’ll never miss a post. Good, huh.
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