Archive for the ‘statistics’ Category

Simulacre.ca Aggregation Poll

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Not one to miss an opportunity to shamelessly promote my own nascent aggregation site (nor to miss demoing out-of-the-box modules of Drupal simultaneously), I bring you a poll in which you can vote to help determine the balance of content for said aggregation site. So if you're curious about bands, ...

Why mobile services are not being adopted :: Apptrigger

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Survey results paid for by Texas-based company AppTrigger (the study itself was conducted by LM Research & Marketing) suggest that UK mobile operators could be doing much more to promote adoption of advanced mobile services among their subscribers. The data purportedly support the conclusion that mobile phone operators are largely locked ...

On Last.fm and royalty payments

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Clear Channel didn't get away with it, and now Last.fm is taking heat for not paying out royalties to independent artists. Last.fm, recently purchased by CBS, is now heating up indie music business blogs with this policy, even though it's been in place since the company started. Why so, asks the ...

Autoanalysis and Taste: Genius or totally off the deep end?

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

In today's NY Times there's a story about Andrew Kuo, super-fan extraordinaire. He's created some mind-boggling charts (pictured right, click the image for enlargement) of indie music appreciation indices (centering around a recent Bright Eyes concert-stalking binge), all of which stem from a very eccentric self-absorption with his own taste. ...