It's been possible for the past few years to record in video format a person's computer activity within their web browser when special recording software is running. While the user's actions are documented, they can narrate their actions through their computer's microphone in synchrony with their actions. This kind of video production is called screencasting.At 3 minutes to midnight, right before
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Posts by DLuebbert
A screencasted Lala tour recorded 23 hours before closing
A fully expanded Lala feed page a few moments before Lala shut down at 2300 PDT 5-31-2010
I was able to save as snapshot of the way my Lala Feed page looked fuly expanded a minute or two before operations were suspended on the Lala site last night as Apple shut it down.At that moment, it reported on the activities of 23 of the people I followed on the site. By my count it listed for me the 227 tunes that those people were listening to during their last 42 minutes on Lala.Just that 42 m
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Gary Lucas
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I was searching for pianist Dollar Brand's solo piano performance of his piece "Bra Joe From Kilimajaro" last night. No luck with that, but guitarist Gary Lucas had a performance that showed up.There's very little around that explains what Lucas' aims are as a musician, but the music of his I listened to demonstrates that he's a guitarist with unbelievable skill as a solo performer. He's Hendrix c
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Dinah Washington - Evil Gal Blues
I speak on behalf of this compilation because of one track, Dinah Washington's performance of "Evil Gal Blues" with Lionel Hampton's band at Carnegie Hall in 1945. I saw another version of this song rated with five stars. If that was a 5 star track (it was really good), this one should get 9 or 10 to account for ratings inflation.I haven't checked Dinah's discography to verify, but this has to b
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Swimming Out To Lala, Wrecked on The Shoals, For Salvage
After I've done 40 more File saves, I'l have rescued all of my Lala Recos Received including all of their comment threads. 30 saves should get me the complete Blurbs. On Friday afternoon, I captured all of my Recos Sent. I think I should be able to snag everything I left behind before the fire and brimstone rains down next week.Once I've got that stuff saved away I should be able to be a lot
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What was the Lala Music Site? Why Must It Close?
I just posted a lengthy article with this title on the SongTrellis site.The beginning of the article:"A woeful decision to close the Lala Music Service on May 31st was made public by the site's owners, Apple, on April 30th.Apple's closure announcement had the character of an eviction notice. It's curt and terse manner was guaranteed to cause ill will among Lala members. No recognition of or pr
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Recipe For Recos
The reco sending recipe I include below should feel pretty close to what we did to send one on Lala. Only difference is we have to perform a brief clerical step as we create recos to send. The recipe will provide a URL that the recipient will most likely have to copy and paste into their web browser.There is a bit of technical mojo to wrap a URL within an HTML directive to make it into a clickabl
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Sonny Rollins - Seattle, WA - May 10, 2010
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Sonny didn't play transcendently last night, which his fans hope for when they go to his shows. That a tenor sax player of nearly 80 years can sometines still get into that state is cause for amazement. But he did represent his music and his art wonderfully.His sound is still there in good shape: full. mobile, mercurial, humorous. His sound has body and vibrates in the air. When he bends phrases
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