Dave Haynes

I’m a little tired of this whole filesharing debate. I thought we’d moved on from that a couple of years ago. But I just got round to checking this retort to Lily Allen by @itsdanbull. Very clever, no matter what you think of the debate.

I think the video makes a deeper point in itself. No matter what you think of the track and the sentiment a guy like Dan Bull clearly understands how to harness the power of the web for promotion rather than fight against, as Lily seems to be hell bent on trying to do with this debate. At time of writing the video had nearly 200,000, 4000 ratings and over 1000 comments.

When I started planning Music Hackday in London earlier this year I was super excited. It turned out to be a great weekend in a great venue (The Guardian offices in Kings Cross). But little did I know that just 4 months later the event would have spread to 4 different cities & countries (Berlin, Amsterdam, Boston, Mumbai).

And now I’ve seen the pictures of the venue in Boston - Microsoft’s New England Research and Development Center (aka The NERD) - I’m even more excited. Check the musicmachinery.com link above for more info and more amazing pictures.

If you’re interested in coming along then register at http://musichackdayboston.eventbrite.com/

If you’re interesting in sponsoring then all the info can be found at http://boston.musichackday.org

It’s Music Hack Day time again. This time it’s Berlin! It’s really thrilling for me to see what I started in London spreading all over the world. As of today there are Music Hack Day’s being planned in:

Amsterdam (October 21)
Boston (Nov 21/22)
Mumbai (Nov 21/22)

And not confirmed but looking likely is San Francisco in December.

But what is just as thrilling is to see the demand out there for these events in so many different parts of the world. There’s a strong and growing community of people out there with a shared interest for music and hacking.

I’m hoping we’ll see some fantastic results on Sunday. Rumour has it that Henrik Berggren (creator of the above slideshow) and David Kjelkerud have enlisted some help to turn their Citysounds.fm app (created at the London Music Hackday) into a fully fledged iPhone app! Awesome.

Hinke Nails it

“eHub: How many hours of sleep do you get a night?
Citysounds.fm: This is a common misconception of coders and web people. We sleep as much as regular people, we just code instead of watching tv.”

ehub interviews Henrik. (Via Andie)

 September 1st, 2009

I cancelled my Sky subscription last week (saving over £200/year). If it wasn’t for my wife (and mother-in-law by proxy) the TV would have gone at the same time.

So ask yourself now, do you need your Sky / TV? What amazing things could you spend the time and money on instead?

Doublecheck Your Head is the new project by Max Tannone, the man who was also behind the amazing mashup Jaydiohead.