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t.w.i.b. notes 4/2/2007 · by Rafi Kam
Souled On Music links to “Make or Take” featuring mid-90s favorites Nine and Smoothe Da Hustler.
Floodwatch delivers an autopsy of the Gravediggaz “Dangerous Mindz”
Ratatat remix of “Party and Bullshit” (via Analog Giant)
Nation of Thizzlam lists their favorite Bay rap albums of all time.
Crooklyn Classics has lots of rare out of print albums for downloading.
... which reminded me of Harry Allen’s salient point (jumping off from a discussion of NWA) in the Addicted To Race podcast on White People and Hip Hop, that Larenz Tate’s monstrous performance in Menace II Society was mistakenly viewed as Tate just being himself as a young black dude.
The MLB Facial Hair Hall of Fame
Poisonous Paragraphs 32 MySpace producers recap
Vik on killer Chinese food.. sounds like it should be a future Internets Celebrities joint.
Clever concept, great execution. Someone is doing a blog wherein they review every movie in the Criterion DVD collection. This is the piece on Rushmore. (Hat Tip to Filmoculous)
I really dig the Filmoculous blog – a stream of short posts deliver substantive ideas on media and cool web discoveries.
Actually forget watching the Criterion collection over several years. That’s easy. The Commish is promising 528 beers consumed in a single summer!
J-Zone has been doing some quality blogging lately. Here he gets at fans who can’t get past the race question… as in “what race is he?”
New Orleans flooded with guns.
Sean Bell Update… attack of the suspect witnesses plus a song from the victim’s perspective.
I hear that tickets to the NY Rock the Bells show are already sold out. It’s a problem that $85 is a problem for me. Hoping I can work something out with the organizers.
Peanut Butter – The Atheist’s Other Nightmare. The original Atheist’s Nightmare is also a must-view.
Interscope likes its rappers buff and shirtless. Insert Homo Thug / “Not that there’s anything wrong with that” / Melle Mel steroid joke here.
Making your music available online for free is not enough. You’ve got to hustle to get your free music out there. More on free and why the labels are fucked.
National Review reviews the new Jeff Chang book
Contributor Joe Twist and then Jeff Chang respond.
Zilla Says shows off the Nike Convoy and Megatron Air Max.
Quote of the week?
rafi-
another week, another set of great links.
i look forward to these posts….they make my internets tours more fruitful.
again, thanks for the links my dude.
— VIK Apr 3, 12:39 AM
First!!1
Am I doing the devil’s work? Yes.
— dronkmunk Apr 3, 12:59 AM
Quote of the week?
“If you haven’t invested in a blog as a platform, perhaps you want to be the best in the world at something right next to a blog instead..”
I think he’s actually trying to promote the lens thing which I don’t think is going so well.
— Clyde Smith Apr 3, 02:17 PM
I should say that’s part of what Seth’s doing. It just always seems to stick out in his blog posts when he pushes the lens site.
— Clyde Smith Apr 4, 02:19 AM
I didn’t get that from this post Clyde.
I don’t think he’s at all saying that blogs are being replaced by lenses.
I think the point is that there is a whole world of publishing/attention tools out there and there will continue to be more. The way people use them will continue to change and the way we measure their success will continue to change.
So rather than thinking about blogging as your business (and we can all see the cottage industry that has grown from the idea of getting rich on blogging), it’s far more important to be “best in the world at something”.
Which is also another way of saying “be remarkable”.
It seems to me that Seth is much more invested in advising people to be the best in the world at something, than he is the idea of the Squidoo lens in particular.
After all, as with blogs, your lens is just a tactic – not a strategy.
— rafi Apr 4, 09:18 AM
you got it, Rafi
as for it “not doing so well”, hey, you can look it up. 750 on Alexa, and climbing…
— Seth Godin Apr 4, 10:23 AM