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Mar
5
2009
1This morning I discovered a new way of posting comments to blogs. JS-Kit Comments is a whizzy web 2.0, completely buzzword compliant way of allowing users to post comments on blog posts. If you are a WordPress blog user it is a snap to install as there is a handy plug-in. The service allows readers of your site to log in using their Facebook or Yahoo! IDs making authentication for them easy. Moderation can be done on the JS-Kit site but the plug in play nice with Akismet too. There is also the beginnings of a reporting tool.
I’m trying it out for a while, I don’t get so many comments on the site so I figured if I try to make it easier for people then more may come.
Have you integrated JS-Kit on your site? Let me know your experience with it in the comments.
Integrating Comments into Blogger and WordPress @ JS-Kit Blog.
Aug
14
2008
0
Worlds Collide
I’ve been finishing a lot of homework lately. This Apocalyptica album had been lying around for months. If I had written the review immediately after receipt it would have been a lot different. The album grew on me after a while. I was very disappointed when I first heard it. The resulting review was something that was somewhere between the two. I couldn’t make up my mind whether I loved it or was bored by it. What was certain was that I did not like it as much as their debut
When Apocalyptica appeared on the music scene in 1996 with Plays Metallica by Four Cellos, they were busting the lid off a new can. Their unique blend of heavy metal and cellos was something really remarkable and daring. What was hard to fathom was their target audience. Those that liked classical music would have shunned the recording as sacrilege, and fans of Metallica were a little bemused. Their debut highlighted all of the similarities between classical music and the brand of metal made popular by Metallica. The idea was simple, unconventional, and brilliant. Just take four cellos and some classical arrangements of Metallica tunes, record them, and release to the general public.
Read the rest here: Apocalyptica: Worlds Collide < Music | PopMatters
Links:
Official Site
Yahoo Audio Search
Aug
8
2008
1
Asia – Phoenix
So this review was a long time coming. I have been so busy of late I let a lot of these PopMatters reviews pile up. I kind of wish that I hadn’t bothered with this one. It was pretty painful to write and even more so to listen to. What can I say, ASIA just don’t float my boat like they used to.
Saying that though there was a time when I would have been delighted to receive this in the post.
It is 25 years since Asia released the follow up to their successful eponymous debut album. Their sophomore effort Alpha didn’t especially set cash registers singing and was largely considered to be a disappointment. Soon after that release, original guitarist Steve Howe (of Yes fame) left and the band went through twenty-something years of line-up changes and lukewarm receptions to increasingly similar sounding (and similar titled) albums.
And this would be the guys performing a cover of the ELP cover of Copeland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man”
May
6
2008
0Another fun little Short Take that I submitted to PopMatters. An excerpt below and the direct link after that.
Lissa Schneckenburger’s Song is a cheerful array of old school folk tunes with the emphasis on the fiddle and quality vocal performance—a mixture of self-composed work and traditional songs from the New England area of the United States.
Lissa Schneckenburger review
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