 20071119 Temporary Move
I'm blogging over at secretenemyhideout.com, my stealth domain, while I design a new format for this site.
Apes & Androids announce their new album BLOOD MOON
 One new track called Golden Prize is available for free download. I’ll Tumble 4 Ya
I was remiss not to add my thoughts to Ricky's post about Tumblr yesterday:Tumbling reminds of when I was in 7th grade and dated a girl at another school. We only saw each other on the weekends, but we spent every weeknight on the phone for at least 3 hours. We didn't say much -- we just watched TV apart, often the same channel, and would repeat funny parts to each other. I subscribe to 25 tumbles, and of those friends, I've only seen 7 in the past month. There are many unique reasons why I haven't met with any particular one of them, but that's an accessory to my lament: passive relationships aren't fulfilling but that's all we seem to have time for. Tumblr is thrilling because it's dispelled the maintenance guilt associated with blogs and relationships, usually manifested by apologies like Sorry I haven't posted/called in awhile -- been busy. Instead, we're seeing the opposite. Users are rabidly posting and proselytizing and keeping tabs on each other. I'm seeing people post 10 items a day who only a month ago had never blogged before. What I boiled out of Ricky's editorial is that Tumblr is a useful and addictice service with an occasional side-affect of overusage and repeating, meaning that we're sharing bundles with each other, but we're not saying much. I agree that it's happening and that it's underwhelming in an overwhelming way, but most importanly it isn't sustainable and will evolve. It's a great service because it allows us busy folk to post lots of content quickly -- but it begs the question: When do we have the time digest each other's output? It's only a matter of time before this disparity balances and we find a sensible way to include Tumbling and Twittering in our lives, in a way that promotes active relationships and distribution of creative thought. Here's room for invention -- we must make useful meaning of all these feeds! Otherwise, it's possible that might we devolve to the point where we're all just sitting in front of monitors watching each other, caught in a mindless feedback loop, staring and creating nothing at all. If anything is certain, Tumblr is a superior publishing tool that will trump the current jokers as the blogging platform of choice. If it's any indication, I'm tumbling while I decide whether or not to switch to their backend after 7 loyal years with Blogger. Tumblr? Don't Bothr: The Case Against Hyperblogging
Ricky Van Veen: Words have relative values. Someone who talks a lot has less value to their words than someone who rarely speaks. But when that quiet person speaks, people listen. When you publish 20 posts a day, your individual posts lose value. And when you finally do have something to say, it gets lost among the clutter. Your signal to noise ratio is too low. I'm hiring.
SEEKING FREELANCE DEVELOPERS ANYWHERE. I'm interested if you have any combination of experience with Ruby, PHP, ActionScript, and especially SMS gateways. No need to send resumes -- just tell me about yourself and include descriptions of your responsibilities with previous projects.Email zklein@gmail.com !!!
Saul Williams's collaboration with Trent Reznor is available for free download.
Also, there's a related interview in New York Magazine. |
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 Hi, I'm Zach. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Wake Forest. After college, I moved to Manhattan to get serious about a company I ran with friends. We sold it to Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in 2006. I just wrapped up with a project I co-founded called Vimeo and left CV to focus on being a twenty-five year old. I have another blog called Copy and Taste, where I post about learning to cook. I live in Brooklyn now.  Del.icio.us My Flickr Me on Flickr Last.fm Linked in MySpace Netflix History Vimeo  Amir Blumenfeld Chris Bodenner Mareen Fischinger Fort Wayne Observed Nick Gray Hype Machine Jake and Amir Jakob Lodwick Oh My Rockness Jonathan Marcus Youngna Park Megan Scheminske Eliot Shepard Shorpy Signal vs. Noise Alex Soth Stereogum Ricky Van Veen Khoi Vinh Eugene Wyatt  June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007  Postal Skype SMS (via AIM) |