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the game of chess is like a swordfight

Time For You To Uncover The Mystery Of Chessboxin'


WuChess opened today, and in addition to a (welcome, to me) return to Wu-branded merchandise it offers a new business model from the RZA, who's charging $48 a year for chess instruction, online play, tournaments, and social networking. The site's launch even gave the Web 2.0 chattering classes an opportunity to squabble with each other about the site's viability! Personally, I'll stick to online Dr. Mario for my game-related social-networking needs, even if the music isn't quite as good. [WuChess blog]

5:00 PM on Tue Jun 3 2008
By Dan Gibson
147 views, 5 comments

Latest by westartedthis: will Wu-Tang financial become a reality, as well?+ Watch video you know, after the airplane sketch. the tag and title of this post alone had me laughing. a bunch. more »

web 2.maybe?

Soundflavor Whittles Your Taste In Music Down To A Small Tag Cloud

Most people have at one time or another—or, you know, every single day—stared into the great information sinkhole that is a database-driven Web site and wasted a great deal of time. As Internet technology becomes more advanced this process only becomes more efficient, yet paradoxically more time-consuming. It's in this spirit that I checked out Soundflavor, an unholy mixture of Pandora, Allmusic, and YouTube with a large database of artist profiles and links to videos featuring an artist's songs (plus a link to buy songs legally, in the unlikely event that you choose that route). After selecting a song, a little window listing 25 similar songs compiled by Soundflavor—again, complete with YouTubage—pops up. It's as flawed as it is brilliantly convenient. Let's waste some time, shall we? More »

4:30 PM on Thu May 29 2008
By Kate Richardson
296 views, 9 comments

Latest by Kate Richardson: I admittedly know very little about Tori Amos other than that she bothers me profoundly. From what I've heard I just don't like her general tone. And yet I love Rilo Kiley. So there must be some fundamental difference. more »

web 2.maybe?

New Online Mixtape Site Hopes That It Doesn't Get Recorded Over By Rights Issues

Yesterday saw the launch of Muxtape, a playlist-sharing service where users are allowed to craft and share 12-song "mix tapes" by uploading songs they like to a server, from whence they stream. Word spread quickly throughout the microblogging service Tumblr, and Travis McCoy from the Gym Class Heroes has even made one. Basically, Muxtape takes the idea of the International Mixtape Project into the Web 2.0 era, complete with slick, commentary-free interface, and ultra-self-referential group of base users. Which is why I'm wondering how long it'll be before the whole thing gets shut down by the majors, who are notorious sticklers about things like "getting paid for the streaming of songs they own the rights to." More »

2:15 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,588 views, 12 comments

Latest by Janelleyo: The Snow Globe song is one of Travis' own. It has a strange idea behind it too. Something about old strippers. more »