iTunes Ping Sucks #Apple #fail October 20, 2010
Posted by Phil Groom in Music, Technology, Watching and Waiting.Tags: After The Fire, Apple, ATF, iTunes, ITunes Store, Music, Ping, Social network, update
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Here’s why:
iTunes says, "You cannot like or post to Ping about an item that is not currently offered in the iTunes store"
… to which I reply, up yours, Apple! No, it is NOT “OK” for you to tell me what I can or cannot like. The fact is, I like ATF’s Like the Power of a Jet — and all the data about the track and the album it’s from, Der Kommissar, is out there in the Gracenote database, to which you have access already built into iTunes and which you could readily integrate into Ping if you were actually interested in what your customers like instead of simply being obsessed by your own income stream (in case you’ve forgotten, you found all the track names from Gracenote for me when I ripped the CD into iTunes: thank you).
So please do yourselves and your customers a favour: if you want Ping to be a social network, stop telling us that we can only like things that you can sell. Strange but true, Mr Jobs: life is bigger than Apple’s bank balance.
Thank you for listening.
Like this:
Fresh Expressions of Holiday Club March 24, 2010
Posted by Phil Groom in Church, Music.Tags: Coldplay, Fresh Expressions, Holiday Club
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You may have seen this before. Never mind: it’s worth watching again: the Easter vacation is upon us and it’s children’s holiday club time. Here’s how a holiday club should be done, courtesy of one of my all-time favourite bands. Pump up the volume and enjoy:
Here is love will tear us apart April 12, 2009
Posted by Phil Groom in Lent & Easter, Music, Theological Reflection.Tags: Joy Division, William Rees
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Here is love, vast as the ocean,
Lovingkindness as the flood,
When the Prince of Life, our Ransom,
Shed for us His precious blood.
Who His love will not remember?
Who can cease to sing His praise?
He can never be forgotten,
Throughout Heav’n’s eternal days.On the mount of crucifixion,
Fountains opened deep and wide;
Through the floodgates of God’s mercy
Flowed a vast and gracious tide.
Grace and love, like mighty rivers,
Poured incessant from above,
And Heav’n’s peace and perfect justice
Kissed a guilty world in love.
— William Rees
When the routine bites hard
And ambitions are low
And the resentment rides high
But emotions won’t grow
And we’re changing our ways,
Taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart againWhy is the bedroom so cold
Turned away on your side?
Is my timing that flawed,
Our respect run so dry?
Yet there’s still this appeal
That we’ve kept through our lives
Love, love will tear us apart againDo you cry out in your sleep
All my failings expose?
Get a taste in my mouth
As desperation takes hold,
Is it something so good
Just can’t function no more?
When love, love will tear us apart again…
— Joy Division
I saw your sky fall down today… March 8, 2009
Posted by Phil Groom in Music.Tags: Jaycee, Matthew West, Video, YouTube
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Until yesterday, I’d never heard of Matthew West. I was introduced to him by Jaycee, who blogs at Light Her Lamp and has his song “Right by your side” as part of her soundtrack. Thanks, Jaycee!
Then I found this video version and it blew me away. Hope it blows you away too…
