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Adrian Holovaty's Radiohead remix
Quite good if I do say so myself, Adrian explains: Radiohead is holding a "contest" called Radiohead Remix, in which they're inviting fans to remix the song called "Nude" from their latest album. They've released the raw tracks -- separate, isolated audio clips of vocals, guitar, percussion, etc. -- and are encouraging people to remix the tracks to create something different, then upload it to radioheadremix.com... I listened to a bunch of the submitted remixes on Wednesday and was kind of disappointed that none of the ones I listened to did anything interesting musically. Most of them retained the same ...
Did I forget to post about EveryBlock?
A week or two ago, Adrian Holovaty and his intrepid crew at EveryBlock released the product they've been working on for the past 6 months or so. His team of Paul Smith, Wilson Miner, and Daniel X. O'Neil have put together a site that aggregates civic information like business licenses and street closings and mashes them together with crime data, business reviews from Yelp, missed connections & lost and found reports from Craigslist, and more. All these stats can be broken down, viewed by neighborhood or zip code, and analyzed. Most common crime in Chicago? Theft! Other weird stuff I ...
Posted on: 2008 February 02
Filed under: Internet, Journalism, Technology
adrianholovaty, chicago, django, everyblock, hyperlocal, journalism, nyc, SF, wilsonminer
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