All school flavor on your iPhone

The iPhone version of the LDBK player is now available in Apple’s application store. This is definitely the way forward for the radio concept that’s slowly but surely taking over the world of online radio. The LDBK player is nothing short of a grassroots media revolution. I’m supporting this any way I can.

Katie Skills presents Summer Bubblers

I’m packed, ready to travel across the globe and listen to Katie Skills’ mix of “beats, broken, bass and love”. Summer Bubblers all the way to a chilly Melbourne. Wintertime down under. Perfect conference conditions. My oh my, soundcloud sure looks cool.

PS: best joke about the MJ funeral so far: this has to be the first time MJ showed up on time

Badu & The Roots messin’ around

Can it be stayed I stayed away too long/
Did I leave your mind when I was gone/
It’s not like you’re trying to get back/
But this time let me tell you where I’m at/

A timeless MJ song in a dripping wet version by Erykah Badu & The Roots.

(Picture by jackie.canchola, flickr.com)

“funnin round 30 Rock before the [jimmy fallon] show started. we snuck and recorded this w/ erykah” – questlove

The Roots w/ Erykah Badu – “I Wanna Be Where You Are”

Attorneyst.com, I bow humbly.

PS: I just blogged a reblog of a tweet.

Print versus online news consumption

I’m ranking this quote under “wish I had read this sooner”.

Paper newspapers are hard to hold, hard to fold, hard to move around in (”cont’d on page E35″), smelly, smudgy, static (no video), unlinked, and wasteful. At the moment, the replacement readers are over-priced, under-sized, static, black and white, and barely-linked. But over time that’ll change, and when it does, I don’t think we’ll mourn papers for long.

David Weinberger

Newspapers will fail in spectacular ways

[Newspapers] will fail in spectacular ways when asked to cope with shrinkage. And make no mistake, the scale of any news business that asks its readers to take primary responsibility for underwriting the costs of journalism will be tiny when compared with the fat times at the end of the last century.

Steve Yelvington debunks the American Press Institute’s report on models of paid online content. You can read the Newspaper Economic Action Plan as a .pdf document here.

[via @cshirky]

This beat is certified dope

Soul Sunday is taking the summer off, but not before leaving you with a stone cold classic by Brit soul heroes Soul II Soul. The acapella version of “Back to life” is a club classic, but the original cut is nothing to sneeze at either.

I remember the instance: a birthday party at a friend’s house. I was rummaging through her CD collection when I stumbled on Carolyn Wheeler’s killer vocals and completely lost it when the beat dropped. I’m talking bonkers.

Soul II Soul – Back to life (however do you want me) (Virgin, 1989)
Clickity-click here. Check out the drum break sample.

Vanhoenacker fourpeats at IM Austria

5-time IM winner Marino Vanhoenacker is well on his way to breaking to magical 8-hour barrier at IM Klagenfurt. He’s a 3 time winner in Austria and needs a sub 2:48:36 marathon to go sub-8 hours. He ran a 2:45:12 marathon in 2008.

Newscast:

• 1:40pm: Ironman’s live coverage has more network issues than Sarah Palin
• 1:42pm: Marino is now past the 20.5km marker and still on sub-8h pace
• 1:43pm: I didn’t think I’d ever say this, but I’d love to try my hand at running a marathon
• 1:46pm: I’d never thought I’d write this, but I’d love to try my chances at running an Ironman
• 1:47pm: Did I just write that?
• 1:48pm: Kärnten IM Austria cut-off times

Swim cut off: 2h 20min (wetsuit allowed)
Bike cut off: 10h 30min after Start of the race
Run cut off: 17h after Start of the race

• 1:50pm Marino’s lead is growing: The next three men through the 20.5k mark were South African James Cunnama with a 13:58 deficit, Stephen Bayliss who was 8 seconds behind him and Bernhard Hiebl, 36 seconds further back.
• 1:52pm 3800m swim – 180km bike – 42km195 run. Can’t quite get my mind around it.
• 1:55pm You swim in Wörther lake – not too shabby at all

• 1:58pm The bike leg is a rolling two-loop course. I’m blogging myself into this.
• 1:59pm Two 90km loops. Aid stations every 20kms. Still sounds insane though.
• 2:00pm “The run distance is completely flat and leads from the transition area along the north shore of the Wörthersees to the turning point to Krumpendorf. After the turn the course leads to Klagenfurter city where you are running around Klagefurt’s landmark the “Lindwurm”.”
• 2:01pm Marino is en fuego! He’s just gone through the 26.7k point at Krumpendorf in 6:55:55. In other words, he has 1:04 left to cover 15.5kms. His sub 8h window is closing rapidly. Close call.
• 2:09pm Coach, if you’re reading this, feel free to laugh out loud.
• 2:11pm Meanwhile at IM Frankfurt, Chris McCormack and Eneko Llanos are running side by side through the 31.5 km mark. This is shaping up to be quite a triathlon racing weekend.
• 2:28pm At IM Frankfurt, Timo Bracht has taken over the lead. Chasing him are Eneko Llanos and Chris McCormack, who was battling cramps but seems to be running at full speed again
• 2:32pm At IM Austria, live coverage is down again. Another network timeout.
• 2:33pm And we’re back. Vanhoenacker 7:20:23,6 at km 32,6! How on earth does he do this? 9.6km in 39 minutes looks realistic. For him at least.
• 2:40pm The men at IM Frankfurt through 39.2km. Leading the men is Timo Bracht (#3). Behind him are:
  * Eneko Llanos (#2) at 32 seconds
  * Chris Mccormack (#1) at 3:32
  * Andreas Raelert (#13) at 4:05
• 2:45pm This is unbelievable: Timo Bracht may also break the 8h barrier. With 3 km to go, he has 13:05 to break 8 hours here.
• 2:46pm For the record books: Luc Van Lierde holds the record for the fastest IM ever in 7:50:27.
• ***Timo Bracht wins IM Germany in a new course record of 7:59:00***
  
• Llanos is second in 8:00:05. McCormack comes in third.
• 2:50pm All eyes on Vanhoenacker now. Can he break the 8h barrier at IM Austria?
• 2:53pm “Less than 3k, less than 10 minutes”. Fly, Marino, fly!
• 2:54pm Let’s see if the video feed works. And whaddayaknow. It does.
• 2:55pm The crowd is dancing to YMCA.
• 2:56pm Sub 8h or not, Marino is on his way to win this race for the fourth consecutive time
• 2:57pm Marino has two minutes remaining!
• 3:00pm Marino wins IM Austria for the fourth year in a row in 8:01:38. What a race!
• 3:02pm Complete pandemonium!
• 3:06pm He’s walking (!) up and down the finish area and giving an interview. What’s next, a school run?

Anattitude mag asks what is hip hop?

Anattitude is “the first and only existing international Hip Hop magazine on print, to present the female side of Hip Hop culture” and they’re asking what hip hop means to you.

Three thoughts. First, a print only mag? Why sell yourself short that way? You have a website. Use it! Second, female representation in hip hop: yes, yes, yes. Hip hop needs strong female voices. I’m all for this. Three, what does hip hop mean to me? I see it as a quintessentially global cultural artform that is now larger than nation, race, gender, language and religion.

HIP HOP IS …

write us, what does Hip Hop mean to you?

Every statement will be printed in the next Anattitude issue (#4) and the best ones will be printed on tees to accompany the next issue.

How to contribute?

1. fill out this PDF by hand
2. scan the whole sheet of paper
3. send back (with 300 dpi) to: contact(at)anattitude.net until the 5th of july 2009
4. write in the mail: your name/ your profession / where you live

Please spread “Hip Hop is…” to everybody in the Hip Hop world (male/female, every genre of HH) … we want to hear ALL your messages, your love for Hip Hop!

[via @LaidBackRadio]

TriKa press conference: MH for mayor

Our swim marathon raised a grand total of 2824,55 euro for the Marc Herremans foundation, To Walk Again. Marc just oozes personality, determination and class. What an inspiring athlete. Meanwhile, our third annual race is almost sold out. So far, 272 athletes have registered, and counting.

Still Bill

My most recent epiphany came courtesy of the trailer for this upcoming Bill Withers documentary where he says: “It’s okay to head out for ‘wonderful,’ but on your way to ‘wonderful’ you’re gonna have to pass through ‘alright.’ And when you get to ‘alright’ take a good look around and get used to it cause that may be as far as you’re gonna go.”

Amen to that, Phonte.