// PRODUCT SHOP NYC “I wasn’t planning on seeing A Place to Bury Strangers since I’ve seen them numerous times, but I couldn’t help myself. I’m obsessed!” (tags: aptbs siren brooklyn ny) Feast of Music: Wall of Sound ” Hearing them for the first time on the Stillwell Stage at yesterday’s Siren Festival, their music […]
Tagged A Place to Bury Strangers, aptbs, brooklyn, siren festivalPop and Rock Listings – Schedule – NYTimes.com “The Village Voice’s annual Siren Festival is an exercise in excess: nearly nine hours of free music, mounds of fried clams, bushels of candied apples and unrelenting, unavoidable midsummer sunshine. Still, it’s a fun spiral — plan on stumbling off sticky, half-deaf, sunburned and deeply satisfied. This […]
Tagged A Place to Bury Strangers, aptbsA couple of links surfaced recently. They are about doing research and tutorials for using the Internet.They are worth keeping track of. Internet Research Tips – How To Use The Web To Research A Topic “Searching the web seems like an easy prospect. Take, for example, the person searching who wants to learn how to […]
Tagged researching, searching, tutorialsSiren Festival at Coney Island Boardwalk | Events | New York City | Decider A Place To Bury Strangers focuses instead on that perfect moment when the feedback wells up over the music and stretches it out into an endless wall of sound and fury. It’s a matter of guitar pedals as weapons of mass […]
Here are a set of links to some authoritative voices on the topics of tags, folksonomies, and metadata in the order I read them. The simplicity of the Web and large amounts of data. As Shirky says – it’s about the links, not the categories. Folksonomies – Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata “This […]
Tagged folksonomies, folksonomy, metadata, tagsEMI | The latest | The latest | Songs to the siren New Mute Records signings, A Place To Bury Strangers will release their as yet-untitled first album (and sophomore Long-Player) for the label later this year. Their debut received a “best new music” distinction and support from Pitchfork, and they have toured with Nine […]
Tagged A Place to Bury Strangers, aptbs, brooklyn, siren, village voiceOnline Collections and Presentation (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress) The American Folklife Center provides online access to selected portions of our collections. We create our own online presentations on various topics and the American Memory project provides additional online access to selected collections. Online content may include audio samples of music and stories, […]
Tagged american folklife center, free, library of congress, multimedia, musicThere is a fundamental difference searching for non-text items compared to searching for text items such as documents and other Web pages. The difference is not in the techniques we use, but since we usually use text for our searches when we search for non-text items, our search is based on secondary information, often descriptive […]
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Search Distance
In thinking about how metadata is used necessarily in searching for most non-text items, a related concept of how far we are from what we seek in a search. In some cases all we can use is metadata. For example when we search for an image, We cannot present an image to a search engine […]
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