My favorite feature in iTunes is the Smart Playlist. iTunes lets you create dynamic playlists based on just about any information stored with the track. I ran into this blog post from over on Boing Boing where people are sharing how they use their playlists. The one I do the most is of things I haven’t played in more than 6 months. it helps keep things fresh.

I keep forgetting to post here, but tonight has the potential to be a pretty kickass night at the Lounge. Tonight we’re teaming up with the folks downstairs to bring you Seb of Son Kite upstairs (and Son Kite downstairs). Seb is going to be playing some downtempo stuff upstairs, so it should be pretty keen. I’ll be opening up of course. I think I may drag out the sandwiches track. Here’s the details.

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   “the relaxed side of things”

Tonites Special Guest:
DJ Seb [Son Kite] Sweden

DJ Seb, better known as 1/2 of Son Kite will be performing a down tempo
ambient groove set in the lounge tommrow night.

Seb has produced such down tempo CD’s such as ‘chillosophy – number 2’
availible from DIGITAL structures (which I personally own and suggest you
add it to your own collection).

Be sure to arrive early to catch this special appearance in the lounge.

Admission is Free Before 11p

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oct. 8th: Frantic [Mashed Potatoes] MA
oct. 15th: Kaotik – [Audio Dream Control] MA
oct. 22nd: Mus-ok [www.mus-ok.com] (live performance)
oct. 29th: Crook [elements-dnb.com, c4m] (experimental electro)

Resident Selectors:
Special Pete (DubCoast)
Gregory Blake (Changmian)
Peter Ellis (ttb)
Pete Yagmin (Changmian)

The Analog Lounge
Every Wednesday, Upstairs @ Vertigo
126 State St. Boston, MA
617-723-7277

10pm – 2am
21+ with Positive ID/No Dress Code
$5 cover (After 11p)

More info:
www.changmian.com (upcoming guests and map)
www.vertigoboston.com (club info)
www.miscon.net
www.dubcoast.com

Hope to see you all there!

For the first time in over a year. I forgot about the first of the month. Maybe before bed.

So I’m pretty much done with phase one of my RSS project for Individual.com (The url to the site is http://www.individual.com/, we’re working on making it so http://individual.com/ also works). The initial goal is to have custom feeds of news based on topic. So, I have a few feeds that I use right now in NetNewsWire. One issue that’s sitting in the back of my mind right now is that some of these feeds are huge. I currently have them set to only work give the news the past 24 hours in the feed, but even then it’s a few hundred articles in the course of a day. For users of things like Radio, this could be complete overload. One solution I thought of was only including the last n stories and have that be a value people can set. Lots of interesting things to think about here. Oh, and if anyone wants to test this out, drop me a line and I’ll get you set up to use it (warning, it is more than a bit kludgy at this point). The picture on the left is a snapshot of one of the topics in NetNewsWire.

A while back there was a bunch of stuff floating around about the iTunes music store and independent labels. Is there any word on what’s up with that these days? Has it started? Is it still going to start? I’ve been trying to find stuff on it and haven’t found much.