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For no apparent reason, here's a list of CDs I added at least one song from to the big mix yesterday. Not at all representative of the whole list (maybe just the opposite, as I'm trying to fill in some categories that are lacking.)
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Manu Chao - Clandestino
Sounds from the Verve Hi-Fi compiled by Thievery Corporation
The Very Best of Elvis Costello
The Stooges
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
R.E.M. - Life's Rich Paegent
U2 - Boy
The very best of Booker T. & the M.G.'s
Patti Smith - Horses
The Rolling Stones - Some Girls
Shuggie Otis - Inspirational Information
855 songs total. 61 hours of music.
Tonight is the very first (and very small) tasting at the new restaurant: Alias. I'll take some pictures. Hopefully you'll be able to contain your excitement until tomorrow. I think Wednesday or Thursday will be the stealth (soft) opening. But we don't want any real attention for another week after that. Might be a good time to come in if you're someone reading here.
Another impressive looking information space tool (see last post) is the newly released Tinderbox. I'll have to wait for someone else to make something with it to really understand what it's about, but the site gives some general idea. I've noticed a lot of people are talking about this one. Evidently the lead developer, Mark Bernstein, is a big name in the history of hypertext spaces.
I've mentioned Wiki's before. They are open collaborative web spaces. Very cool. You could use a subset of their capabilities to run a weblog. But they go far beyond that into something more like what I always imagined was possible with hypertext information storage (and presentation.) They are many dimensional, and many directional. A real idea space (where a weblog is more like an idea timeline.) So I'm already impressed, but now that I've found Bill Seitz's Thinking Space I am completely blown away. Both by the Wiki technology, and by all the information Bill has collected. The hardest thing about it is that it's unclear where to point someone to best get them started. There's so much there there. The link above is to a weblog like view. Here's a more general information page. If you're interested in information spaces (I almost want to say 'externalizing the brain') you have to check out his site. Keep clicking. It takes some work, but there is a lot to reward in there.