Dave Haynes

• listening to aol talk at vidzone day. He seems embarrased abt brand #
• aol to launch mobile music service end of may #
• vidzone announcing ww exclusive playstation deal #
• getting preview of playstation home. Looks quite exciting. #
• loving this, just heard on Radio 1. http://songza.com/z/05h9f4 #
• @pete_bug Portishead and the O2 in one day. I’d say you’re having a pretty good week! #

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• Checking Mixwit.com. It rules! Now my favemixtape site (previously Muxtape). And why? Because all the music is via URL and has great skins. #

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• watching Jools Holland. Awesome lineup tonight. #
• why dont some sites allow _ in usernames? Signing up for friendfeed but have 2 use haynesdave. That sucks 90% of my profiles are haynes_dave #
• Tounami Diabete really is awesome. Would love to see him play that Kora live. #
• reading interesting post about @lucas_gonze making his music blog. If anyone can do this right it should be him:- http://snurl.com/24jhv #
• Couldn’t login to Dopplr via OpenID. It wouldn’t accept my URL. Second disappointing OpenID experience. I need a good one. #

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• great, there’s a glimmer of light for a Friefox browser on my Nokia phone http://snurl.com/247hn #
• techhiphop. I LOVE this analogy. Watch it http://snurl.com/247hu. Thanks @fascinated for getting me to this page. #
• right, must leave my screen! Got some real DIY to do. #
• DIY done, new door successfully hung. Is there a Youtube for DIY tutorials? B&Q could sponsor. Quiet night in now, making some playlists. #
• listening to M. Ward: ‘before he was blogged’ - http://snurl.com/248lg #

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• too much free MoS vodka last night. Struggling to gather coherent thoughts today. #
• train cancelled due to lightning! strange. Looks like i’ll be working afternoon from home too #
• @pete_bug good luck at the conference. would be interested see the ppt you’re presenting. #

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• @mbites maybe it’s the twubble effect gaining you new followers? #
• great news. Last.fm encourages Amazon.com sales - http://snurl.com/23xsf #

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• watching Radiohead on Pitchfork’s newly launched .tv - http://pitchfork.tv #
• Have had this Black Kids stuck in my head since last Tuesday! http://songza.com/z/jhn0l7 #
• cool, my TweetCloud. http://snurl.com/23o9k. Pretty boring though. Are we getting overwhelmed with useless services? #
• wanna listen to some absolutely beautiful music? Check this: http://snurl.com/23p2p. May be one of my rare physical CD purchases. #

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Just watched this interesting interview from Midem with Gerd Leonhard via his own blog Media Futurist. Credits go to the French blog who took the video, thankfully the interview is in English.

MIDEM 2008: Interview de Gerd LEONHARD - Auteur de “The Futur of Music” from Boby on Vimeo.

Fifteen top indie (physical) retailers, including Rough Trade, Piccadilly and Sister Ray, have formed a group called the “Coalition of UK Indie Stores.” Not a particularly innovative name for a not particularly innovative sector.

The group launches on April 19th’s Record Store Day, and its unclear at present how far reaching the agenda of the group will be. Collective action could well bring more power to the indie’s although my worry is that this could be the final moves of a sector severely in decline.

The indie retailers definitely have an important role to play in a thriving music scene (I speak from experience having previously run a vinyl specialist for several years) however I do think that people tend to romanticise slightly about them. When I first visited Rough Trade’s flagship, I was lured in by the promise of flicking through racks of vinyl and having a cosy chat with the man behind the counter about a possible upcoming Liz Green album having just purchased a rather nice limited edition 7″ of the single. I never did find out anymore about any forthcoming Liz Green releases as the man behind the encounter refused to engage in any meaningful conversation and I felt too intimidated to pursue the question. But what is for certain, if I wanted to find out more now, I would go straight to Last.fm to find similar artists, visit Liz’s Myspace to find out news of upcoming releases and log on to Songkick to find out and get alerts if Liz was on tour anywhere near me. If I liked what I saw I’d stream the release from my Napster subscription and even possibly buy the download from Emusic or Amazon if I wanted the MP3 files to upload and share on my Muxtape.

Given all this I’m not sure how we can avoid a rapidly shrinking music (physical) retail sector.

• snow! #
• anyone know how I can auto add links from del.icio.us to Twitter. Would also like to twitter from within Bloglines somehow. #
• just setup an OpenID account. Was more of a hassle than I thought it would / should be. #

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