Finally I’ve found out what Radiohead are doing lately, through one of my “usually-first-click” feeds on Google Reader: dead air space. To sum it up, they have opened up a website that fully reflects the openness that the modern Web itself has lately managed to prove to have and that Radiohead simply understands: you can buy samples from their In Rainbow’s second single, “Nude”, and mix them all up in your favourite fashion. Then you can upload them in order to participate in an online public voting. Pure social media.
So, all the separate tracks (actually, they call them stems) from “Nude” are being distributed through iTunes, namely bass, voice, guitar, strings/fx and drums. I don’t think that I’ll give it a shot, I’m not very handy with these sort of things.
I have no doubt whatsoever that these guys are transforming the music just like the people that are really behind Web 2.0 have changed the way we face the Web.
It reminds me of an excerpt from a favourtie movie:
I like that. It’s like there’s this whole telepathic thing going on that we’re all a part of, whether we’re conscious of it or not. That would explain why there are all these seemingly spontaneous worldwide innovative leaps in science and the arts, you know, like the same results popping up everywhere independent of each other.
Just wanted to say that I’ll be attending the Web 2.0 Expo event in Berlin, from the 5th to the 8th of November. This will most surely be an exciting event featuring mini-events such as Workshops, Conferences, a sort of BarCamp called Web2Open and something that I’m pretty curious about, an Ignite event on which whoever wants to make a presentation, he or she must do it with 20 slides each with 15 seconds duration, which makes a 5 minute keynote.
A couple of Portuguese guys that I met during the BarCampPortugal2007 are going to moderate a certain respective couple of conferences. I’m talking about Fred Oliveira, founder (amongst other main roles) of the startup Webreakstuff, who will lead a Design and User Experience panel and Pedro Custódio, from Sapo, who will be talking about “Conversational Design“.
I’ll try to document the whole event live on this blog, with some fancy photos!
As a good IT College Student of today, I’m always searching for the next best web app to assist me in my life – be that with work, with my finances, or even how to live it. It’s like my next Christmas toy, that I can show to all of my friends and they can see how productive I am. Yeepii. And gets dumped a lot sooner than I expected. Yeepii, nevertheless!
Here’s a little “collage” from Read / Write Web, that I found over at Lifehacker, filled with tools to help us, poor students.
