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Posted by Christian - 18/04/08 at 09:04:06 am

So I signed up for Muxtape about 3 hours after it launched but I hadn’t ever had a chance/taken time to get mine in order. No more. With over 100,000 created in the first week, I decided to catch up.

No need for explanation other than to say that it took time for me to put mine together. I put thought into it. And I picked songs that were a step out for me. No Jack. Nobody from Brushfire Records. No Coldplay. I crossed genres, artists (only duped one) and genders. Autumn: A Feist song even almost made the cut, maybe on the next round. Edit: Updated due to the logic of one Tai Autumn.

I still have two slots open, one of which I know what I want to fill it with. Any suggestions for the last spot?

When I share music with somebody, it’s usually something I think is worth listening to and ask them to put it to the 3 (or 5) listen test. There’s not much music that can catch you with one listen. I’ve only seen it on rare occasion. 3 listens is all I ask if you are serious about getting some new music. I know it won’t be worth it for everyone, but there are a select few that will get it.

http://christianross.muxtape.com/

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Happy April 1st

Posted by Christian - 01/04/08 at 10:04:46 am

I haven’t participated/done an April Fools joke in a long time mostly because people are pretty aware of the day and if you aren’t the first person to get them on April First, then really don’t stand a chance.

The web world though, seems to be another story. Google, in all of their humor and money, have a long tradition of coming up with new ideas/schemes to trick us all on this first day of April. This year is no exception. Funny thing is, plenty of other sites are joining in the excitement as well.

A few of my fav’s:

  • Google and Richard Branson (Virgin Airlines) starting a colony on Mars, project labeled Virgle.
  • Gmail’s “Custom Time” emails. Adjust the date on your email to resend for issues like missed birthdays.
  • Google Australia’s “gDay with MATE” technology that can predict the news one day in advance.
  • Woot’s woot-off. An all day event of selling the same product over and over. (I’m actually a little tired of this one, they keep filling my RSS reader with the same thing!” And I’m mad that I missed the 3am BOC.

    • And my favorite

  • Rick Roll’ing of all the Featured Videos on YouTube’s home page. (YouTube, owned by Google; I’ll explain the concept of Rick Roll’ing later)

      • If you care enough to see some others (plenty of lesser known sites) seems like most are being documented here.

       

       

       

       

       

       

      or here. Happy April Fools.

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