Links for 2006-05-11
- Caffeinated and Unstrung in Seattle... "This wiki is intended to be a guide to the best places in the city to huddle over a table with your laptop, a cup of something hot and get online"
- A new theory - and remember this is not generally accepted - says that our Big Bang may have been just the latest of many... It's a pretty fascinating theory, although I've not got a sense of how it engages with concepts like space-time and how time exists before the Big Bang. I need more!
- Micro Persuasion reports on a study that suggests social media ad-spending is going to hit $757M in 2010 This is apparently a remarkably small proportion of the overall bin of 'non-traditional media spend' available. The site is suspicious of the figure - citing MySpace - and I have to say I'm not convinced either...
- Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music v2 I think having finally found a good starting niche of electronic music thanks to Mr Biddulph, I'm going to have a bit of a rapid explosion of intrest in the area. Ishkur's awesome flash guide is sure to help considerably...
- Business Week wrote an article a little while back about the ways in which Microsoft and Yahoo are responding to Google's dominance in the search ad market I'm obviously not going to comment on it in any formal capacity - it's not an area that I work closely with for a start - but it's a pretty interesting read nonetheless.
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Ah Ishkur's guide to electronic music- one of the best sites on the internet :)
I memepooled it back on December 15, 2000.
http://memepool.com/Date/138/
The traffic from memepool.com overwhelmed his servers back then and then he moved to di.fm's hosting platform for the v2 of the site.
My favorite genre? Deep house.
I recommend fleep.com for excellent free mixes of deep house.
→ Posted by: Gen at May 11, 2006 7:58 AM
Ishkur's guide is hilarious - the guy's comments are very witty, and the samples of each genre are really nifty. Compare and contrast 'Ambient Dub' with 'Noisecore'.
→ Posted by: Matt Petty at May 11, 2006 9:25 AM
I'm not sure why this Big Bang theory has suddenly been making waves, because I read about it ages ago in Brian Greene's book - Fabric of the Cosmos.
It's possible that the time angle is slightly different from what Greene described, but from what I recall his description basically involved n-dimensional branes (the next step up from strings) colliding every trillion years or so. I'd recommend the book if you've not read it Tom, and want to learn more about string theory in general.
→ Posted by: James at May 11, 2006 10:00 AM
That write up about the new Big Bang theory is a bit vague. Particularly in relation to Einstein's use of the cosmological constant. It seems to suggest he thought his mistake was to make it too small, whereas that isn't it at all.
Interesting theory, though would be good to get more detail.
→ Posted by: Adam Ifans at May 11, 2006 1:48 PM