As usual, the answer to a simple question in a headline is "No!"
PESOS from Reading.am.
This is a really interesting development, not unlike that thing I tried to do, single handed, a while back. My playlist is way too full right now, but I might try it just to see what's going on.
PESOS from Reading.am.
PESOS from Reading.am.
I really want to like this but I fear ("Inspired by genetic pioneer Sydney Brenner") that it will not contain enough of Brenner's genius.
Just as desktop publishing didn't turn everyone into even a half-decent designer, so the democratisation of "radio" doesn't turn everyone into even a half-decent producer.
PESOS from Reading.am.
tl;dr: It couldn't be simpler. What to do with all that, however, is the bigger question.
So good.
Your machine is a library not a publication device. You have copies of documents is there that you control directly, that you can annotate, change, add links to, summarize, and this is because the memex is a tool to think with, not a tool to publish with.
Everybody wants to play in the Stream, but no one wants to build the Garden.
I watched some of this magic happening, and it was ... Magical. There are so many good things happening in ReaderLand these days.
On World Food Day, so delighted to see this piece from Gene Logsden pop up in my feed.
https://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2018/10/15/our-hidden-wound-2/
Illuminating anecdote from WW2.
PESOS from Reading.am.
What happened was, I was walking through a train station on the way to work with the buds playing randomly on shuffle and a knifeblade of Real Music came in from outside so I had to pull them out of my ears, there was this young dude getting great electric sound out of a teeny amp doing a slow take on Little Wing with a really good voice: When I’m sad, she comes to me… plenty room between the notes and lots of soul in them. He looked a little hard-pressed; I put my hand in my pocket for some coin but there was no coin there because I live on plastic these days and that busker went unpaid that morning. Another reason for a thing I’m thinking of: Going back to cash.
PESOS from Reading.am.
I read it, I note that I am unsurprised, and I move on. That is what is wrong with me.