Steven Levy Book: Perfect Thing
Published Wednesday, April 18, 2007 by James | E-mail this post
The
Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture and Coolness. Great read.
Quotes for self.
"Digital technology gathers, shreds and empowers all at once. Mix, mash, rip, burn, plunder and discover..." pg 4.
"When anyone can get hold of previously unattainable b-sides of 1950's singles, live cuts from long out of print concert complications, and whispered about but seldom heard gems from top artists moonlighting under pseudonyms, it's an Everest-level challenge to construct a collectioon that blows someone else's mind" pg 25. On playlist battles on dates, trains, classrooms.
Podcasting in higher education is about time shifting lectures, TiVo'g their courses pg. 245