Archive for October, 2007



I was doing some research on Jazz stations today, and checked out the listings on Shoutcast. Out of about 18 pages of listings returned for the term “jazz”, 9 pages had 4 or less concurrent listeners on.




Good to see at least one person involved who gets it. This comes from a story in the Telegraph:
Guy Hands, the financier whose private equity group, Terra Firma, bought EMI in August, told staff in a confidential e-mail last week that the industry had been too slow to embrace the digital revolution.

I tried to bid on meditation . eu, it didn’t go so well:
      
 10/04/07  Desired Price: 200  EUR   
 
 10/04/07  Your Offer: 200  EUR  
 
 10/04/07  Seller´s Counter Offer: 14,500  EUR 
boo hoo. Happens all the time, they just set a low price at first by accident.


There is a certain set of people who email you back and always have their preferences set to not include any previous email history of the conversation. This makes it very frustrating to communicate with them for a few reasons: