Last year we invited producers and dj’s to make a list of the best songs of 2005. This year we (inge+me) build this supercool voting machine (with snow in the background) and invited the producers and dj’s to make the – quite long – shortlist.
There are almost 80 records in stock. You will see random sets. It’s up to you to decide the best record of the pair. If you rollover you hear 30 seconds of music. After clicking you see a percentage. This is indicating how popular a record is.
I’m really excited about voting this way, everyone gets different pairs to choose what’s best, there are so many possible combinations and different people. I think this is the best way to make a list and selection of the best records of the year.
On www.eclectro.nl you can get a code to embed this application on your own blog or site and a complete list of percentages per record.
Feedback or records we have missed are welcome.
Remember 2005 in music? The overview for 2006 is coming and will involve you!
Stay tuned for a few more days…
During my thesis research (2005) I did some experiments with autogenerated tags and extracting tags from userinput. I think this will work just as well – or even better – than giving tags for each posting you do.
Hypernarrative.com now has a tagcloud autogenarated from the contents of the blog. A script reads the text and filters certain words.
The only thing missing is a library for conversion from hyponyms to hypernyms to narrow the set of tags (for example turn the tag red into the tag color). A system like this is used in Medialandschap to generalize the set of data.
So, this is what this blog is all about… a lot of Video, Google, websites and Flash ;)
http://www.hypernarrative.com/tags/
Click and enjoy Dj Shadow In Tune And On Time
Live performance, Google Video, duration 54:30
Copy this code: -6517555921174632079 into this player to play Google Video fullscreen. Or download for iPod or PSP (*.mp4).
Don Norman (the writer of “the design of everyday things”, if you haven’t already you should read it) writes in a column on his website how simplicity is highly overrated. We might want simplicity badly, but it is not the decisionmaker when we go out to purchase something.
Options and control are the things we like to spend money on. Even the icon of technological simplicity, the iPod needs to extend its functionalities with every upgrade to stay attractive.
The New York Times writes about websites that visit you to measure a visit to them.
Oops, Nielsen/NetRatings saw throug and five (out of the seven) million Web users of entrepreneur.com vanished.
A bit like the lyrics from the Massive Attack song Safe from Harm.
“I was lookin’ back to see if you were lookin’ back at me To see me lookin’ back at you”
