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'It's that on the surface it says that "the internet is a new form of democracy". So what you're seeing is a new pluralism, a new collage, a new mosaic of all sorts of different ideas that's genuinely representative. But if you analyse what happens, it simplifies things. [Those in social media] are parasitic upon already existing sources of information - they do little research of their own.'What then happens is this idea of the 'hive mind', instead of leading to a new plurality or a new richness, leads to a growing simplicity. Far from being "the wisdom of crowds", it's the stupidity of crowds. Collectively what we are doing is creating a more simplified world.'
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From Jean Constantin to Claude von Stroke.
Followers! If you use spotify, I’d like to know what you listen to. Fancy swapping ten songs a week?

Featuring Little Boots, Grandaddy and Satchmo.
This week, going all Theme Time Radio Hour, and having songs vaguely connected to the word ‘cat’. We have a new kitten, and so it sort of makes sense. Not posting a picture of teh fluffeh, because he is so adorable that the very internet would explode. So here’s a picture of Cat Power instead. Not that she isn’t adorable too, mind.


Dick Dale and His Deltones: The Surfer’s Choice.

Bon Iver: in French, it sort of means good winter. It sounds better than the Lithuanian translation, which is Geros žiemos, and more romantic than the German, Gute Winter.

Another week, another selection of aural nuggets. This week, featuring Mr Oizo. Remember him?
Because I can’t stop going on about them: The Youngblood Brass Band

Tally Hall: Buried in this week’s list is Tally Hall’s cover of ‘Smile Like You Mean It’. The band’s first album is Marvin’s Marvellous Mechanical Museum, where this photo (by awayfromkeyboard) was taken. York used to have an automata museum, anyone know where its exhibits ended up?

The Gotan Project: Making tango sexy. And hats. But not beards.

Fact: my piano teacher used to be in the band that became the solo project that became Aqualung.