Whirlycott / Philip Jacob

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Radiohead’s Warm Glow - New York Times

Filed under: General — Philip Jacob @ 5:59 pm
Radiohead’s Warm Glow - New York Times
Today, music lovers are left but two options: pay list price for an album, or perform what a fan might call a free download and a record company would call theft. Radiohead’s experiment suggests a third way out: let fans pay what they want and give them lots of touchy-feely reasons to want to give as much money as they can.

There’s nothing touchy-feely about it. Enough people are both willing to pay for the music (because they like it) and quite happy to contribute to an effort that is part of a wave of reform crashing down on the music business.


Guest blogging in dot NL

Filed under: General — Philip Jacob @ 3:46 pm

This week, I am guest blogging on the popular Dutch blog IN10.nl and I just put up my first post where I attempt a silly experiment to get in touch with the band Soko.   I guess I am living in Holland this week, mentally, anyway.


Friday, October 5, 2007

Singing the praises of Nginx

Filed under: General — Philip Jacob @ 9:21 pm

I just put a post on the StyleFeeder tech blog about my new favorite webserver: Nginx.