Tom Purves – Product Management, Fintech & AI

Dammit this one rocks. I’m saying so myself but go get this one an turn it up and just try to disagree. Best one yet I tell you. This last 3 months have been a fantastic season for new music. My mind asplodes.

Quickly, here’s how to get it (4 ways):

• The individual 18 of mp3’s: Link
• As one big 60 minute mp3: Link (all sequenced and mixed together fancy)
• all 18 songs in “one bigass zip file”: here (updated)
• Itunes: if you’re already subscribed go in, find the podcast and if it hasn’t already automagically downloaded itself already, it will, or just [right-click on PC, god knows what on mac and] hit “update”. If you’re not subscribed yet (tsk), see bellow…

no time for fancy tables yet, formatting to come here’s the raw tracklist…

Directory of E:\music\podcasts\best of fall 06
[.]
[..]
01 im_from_barcelona-were_from_barcelona-smid.mp3
02 The Pipettes_We Are The Pipettes_01_We Are The Pipettes.mp3
03 Snowden_Anti-Anti_02_Anti-Anti.mp3
04 Bicycles Australia.mp3
05 Heartless Bastards_All This Time_02_Searching for the Ghost.mp3
06 Death Of A Tune – The Hidden Cameras.mp3
08 MSTRKRFT easy love.mp3
09 Baby Dayliner_Critics Pass Away_07_Go On Baby.mp3
09 junior_boys-in_the_morning.mp3
10 B-B-Bicycles.mp3
11 mew chinaberry tree.mp3
12 im_from_barcelona-collection_of_stamps-smid.mp3
13 Heartless Bastards_All This Time_01_Into the Open.mp3
14 thermals heres your future.mp3
15 M. Ward_Post-War_06_Chinese Translation.mp3
16 Yo La Tengo_I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass_05_Black Flowers.mp3
17 i love creedence.mp3
18 Xiu Xiu_The Air Force_03_Hello From Eau Claire.mp3
19 The Pipettes_We Are The Pipettes_02_Pull Shapes.mp3
best_of_fall_06.mmp
feed.xml
[final sequence]
list.txt
show.html
show.mp3
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note: some of you in the past have claimed that this subscription business “doesn’t work for me”. I believe I have finally figured out — most likely you are using some retrograde version of iTunes (you silly goose). Get the latest version of iTunes from the apple website here. We’re up to version 7 now, and it’s free – yes bless their wee, turtlenecked appley hearts.

# “Web 2.0 is for complete twonks” Best anti web-2.0 screed I’ve read in at least a week. As only the Inq could put it “The whole product of the people shows how desperately stupid the average web user really is…” I still wonder though, if crowd filters could be more effective, even productive, should they were an enterprise or industry-specific user base rather than, say, an editorial base heavily skewed to dorm rooms packed full of male, adolescent linux aficionados? (not that there’s anything wrong with that…)

# Damnit, I wish wordpress had an autosave feature like Gmail.

# I don’t normally link to Guy, he of the business guru 101 self-same 10-20-30 business plans, today I really do feel that he hit an important nail straight on the head with, er, a rhetorical hammer or whatever. Basically, he’s hitting the point “it’s all about the distribution, stupid”. Less we forget, just because your new web-fangled crowd-content-enabled-purple-cow-2.0-what-have-you-product could, almost costlessly, reach out to millions of potential customers, doesn’t mean that it will. at least, just left to its own devices. Distribution is hard. Even if every product these days doesn’t need old-school distribution with trucks, warehouses and branch offices etc. is still a challenge. Getting out of the local echo chamber and actually registering in the mindshare of the mass-market is nontrivial, especially given today’s crowded media space. This is why I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the distribution problem for my own nascent startup. In fact, if you think you might be able to help, please do drop me a line 😉

# OMG, how cool is this watch?

# Have you been this excited for a James Bond movie since you were 14? If the film is half as good the trailer, could be worth your $13. Watch the trailer, do you agree?

# thanks for all the feedback on dead media (both inline and off), I’m touched 🙂 And, for those of you … I never said the loss of certain media wasn’t more lamentable (poetry, pneumatic tubes) than others (disco music…) =)