It’s hard to keep up with vast, random wasteland that is the ‘blogosphere’. With thousands and thousands of voices all going at it, how can you both tell what’s going on and find what you’re looking for? In the music world, we have an imperfect solution in Elbo.ws.
It’s essentially a blog aggregator. It pips competitors [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Wednesday Web’
July 8, 2009
Wednesday Web: Elbo.ws
July 1, 2009
Wednesday Web: Entertainment Legends Revealed
Harry Nilsson’s coffin was lost? ‘Dirty Diana‘ was about Diana Ross? Superman was a spy? All this and more is answered at Entertainment Legends Revealed. It’s poorly named, badly designed and cumbersome to navigate – but the STORIES are great.
This site started as a column at Comic Book Resources called Comic Book Legends Revealed. It’s [...]
June 17, 2009
Wednesday Web: Graph Jam
We are in a mood for fun these days. It’s a bit touch and go sometimes, but Graph Jam is a great source for the odd cheap laugh, many of which are about music.
If only they made it easier to browse! Some tagging. Most popular. ANYTHING! If you manage to find any more cool ones, [...]
June 10, 2009
Wednesday Web: Smoking Gun Backstage/Rider Collection
After several weeks of this column, talking about great new website doing cool things online and with music, this week we present to you a website that’s truly in line with what the internet is about. Cheap gags.
You know a site is important when it’s Google search results has it’s own search bar. Such is [...]
June 3, 2009
Wednesday Web: All Music
All Music. The daddy of all music sites. Formerly All Music Guide, and celebrating it’s 18th year, it is an authoritative and exhaustive database of band bios and music reviews. All cleverly linked to each other and (mostly) superbly written, it is by far the one website that has turned us onto more music than [...]
May 27, 2009
Wednesday Web: Aquarium Drunkard
When one mentions the ‘blogosphere’, one imagines a badlands full of noise, colour, bluster and little value. The thousands of thousands of unsolicted opinions, all posted up for the world to see, or get lost in. The blog world has made few superstars, and are mostly the same. Some like Perez Hilton may get canonised. [...]
May 20, 2009
Wednesday Web: Promo News
Last week this column featured Sleevage, a site that dealt with the music sub-culture of album artwork. We continue the theme this week that talks about the world of music videos – Promo News.
It’s a home for British film clip directors (although some of those directors make clips for bands that aren’t British). It’s slant [...]
May 13, 2009
Wednesday Web: Sleevage
Everyone is quick to proclaim the death of the album artwork these days. The CD gave artwork a good kneecapping. Cassettes were a humiliation not worth remembering. The digital era – it’s been left to rot. That’s not to say that people don’t love a good sleeve, and the people behind them take any less [...]
