were two cyclists coming towards me, shaking their fists, wobbling like two equally convincing but nevertheless contradictory arguments.
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- Jan 2020
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www.ubu.com www.ubu.com
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- Sep 2019
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gizmodo.com gizmodo.com
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people had to be much more proactive in terms of how they discovered music, and they would have to seek it out. And now you know, we kind of push it into people's feeds via Soundcloud
A very nice point about how it used to take work in order to discover music. It's a pattern of human behavior to cut down the work, but what do we loose in this process?
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embeddability. SoundCloud embeds on Twitter, Facebook, this website, any website, and anywhere else really. Click on your favorite music blog, or any blog for that matter. SoundCloud is everywhere.
Made me think about the previous discussion about hypertextuality.
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"There's all these different genres and new things popping up every day. It's kind of hard to keep up with but it's been interesting to see that unfold on SoundCloud,
I think it's also interesting to analyze how Soundcloud eventually also creates an elite, even though it's porpoise is to provide accessibility. In this case, the elite being formed is intellectual, the people who know about the trends before they even become trends.
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Take the case of Beyonce's surprise album, which dropped back in December. Several tracks on the album were produced by Boots, an artist who was largely unknown until he revealed to the internet that he had been working on Mrs. Carter's album. When the internet was in a rush to identify who Boots was, where did they turn? His SoundCloud page, which was peppered with references to tracks that ultimately ended up on Beyonce.
For what it seems, Soundcloud has been able to shield itself from the temptation of being transformed into a capitalization instrument because it's where artists with little or no acquisitive power go to distribute their music.
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Build a place for music to live and breath, and music will grow in ways you couldn't imagine. That's exactly what is happening on SoundCloud. Advertisement"SoundCloud is where music culture happens on the web. It's where it originates,"
I think Soundcloud's most interesting and game changing characteristic is the accessibility and how that was able to keep the platform from being gentrified (Soundcloud vs Spotify). It's like a local band bar vs a concert venue. The former is where the musical core is originated, where it grows, while the latter is where the music is presented when 100% ready.
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great community for my style of music and the sort of weird electronic crossover things
I think that's one of the most interesting features about digital platforms. Soundcloud's idea doesn't seem like the most complex one, but it's still able to produce social change because it eventually creates a community of people.
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Make a song, post it on SoundCloud—no expensive record deal or distribution plan required.
Just like Glover's scam but in the sense that while one is the democratization of the means of distribution, the other democratizes the means of consume.
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More and more often, you'll find it first SoundCloud
I had no idea of that actually. I feel like Soundcloud didn't get as big in Brazil of other south american countries. I mean, I was familiarized with it, but was never an active user.
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rare pure and good things on the internet that the world, in an artistic sense, would be worse off without.
Interesting to notice the bad connotation the internet has gotten
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It's music interaction and discovery distilled to its purest form
Seems like such a intuitive and simple definition of the platform
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- Aug 2019
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Local file Local file
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ocial construction of technology. This theoretical approach suggests that the development, structure, and significance of a technology depends on the strength, needs, and values of the social groups that promote and design it
Technologies are created by a small elite which is, overall, part of the same social group. What is created reflects directly the values and needs of that elite.
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The personal computer, for example, is at the same time a television set, a typewriter, a radio, a telephone, and countless other machines
It seems like humanity is evolving its way back to being "nomads". Everything must be portable.
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Governments exploit their power over digital infrastructures to enact new forms of censorship and social control.
I'm not able to socialize, text etc with my ex roommate because she moved back to China for ex.
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This deep shift means that we now need to rethink the significance of terms like “democracy,” “participation,” “work,” “property,” and “power” in the light of the transformations linked to the emergence of digital technologies.
An issue that governments and tech companies are trying to figure it out. We don't know were "we" end and "they" start anymore.
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Think of when your phone stops working as the train you are riding goes into a tunnel. Furthermore, the billions of microprocessors and computers diffused worldwide are used in a wide range of human activities, from agriculture to industrial production, services, entertainment, and education.
Whenever we have no access to our phones, tablets, internet or cellular service overall, it seems like we are lost in a desert island. How am I going to let my mom know I'm ok? How will I find my way back home without a gps?
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