Saturday, October 29th, 2011

Discovering new music: TheSixtyOne and Mixest review

Written by Matthew Pennell

60 gigabytes, 28 days, 10,000 songs. My iTunes library is daunting, and yet all too often there is nothing that I want to listen to. Where can you turn to discover new music? Mixest Mixest is a cleanly designed, beautifully simple, single page music player offering a selection of tracks culled from indie music blogs… [read more]

Monday, October 24th, 2011

All Tomorrow’s Parties documentary

Written by Matthew Pennell

Occasionally I miss living in the UK – mostly when Channel 4 shows cool stuff like this: All Tomorrow’s Parties (Opening 10 Minutes) from All Tomorrow’s Parties on Vimeo.

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

Comparing traffic to your old and new redesigns with Google Analytics

Written by Matthew Pennell

As part of moving the various parts of this site around this afternoon, I took the opportunity to also tidy up the Google Analytics setup I had in place, both here and on the previous incarnations. I think last time I relaunched the site I must have just created a new GA account, but in… [read more]

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

11:15, restate my assumptions

Written by Matthew Pennell

In his first resurrectory post, Rob Weychert references an old (almost pre-historic) Zeldman tweet from late 2007: Blogging. And blogging again. Writing is fun. Writing is fundamental. If you don’t write, you don’t know what you think. Back when I started this site, chipping into other people’s conversations way back in 2004, the act of… [read more]