Okay, first off, I’d have to clear to way and level the playing field, otherwise I might get taken out by your critics for publishing this here. I first heard about Meg and Dia from a friend of mine who normally hooks me up with interesting new music to listen to. Now my top bands at the moment include Incubus, Billy Talent, Brand New, Alkaline Trio and Rise Against and my music-giving friend has an even more alternative taste. So when he suggested I give Meg and Dia a listen, I thought okay maybe it’s just something indie (whatever that is anyway these days) with a little softer side since it has chick vocals.
My conclusion to his promotion of M&D and my initial thoughts is that M&D pleasantly suprised me and I listen to it every now and again when my girlfriend is around - that softer side thing again.
Meg (21) and Dia (19) Frampton are two sisters and they’re the founders of the band. They started out with just an acoustic guitar, but has since grown into a full 4-piece band (that is what success does to you). Their music can be described as guitar-driven with poppy, but slightly unique, chick vocals. So yes, they are poppy, but I can be a man and face up to listening to them sometimes.
The interesting thing about M&D however is the fact that they appeal to the more alternative crowd and I don’t if that’s just because they are the prettiest girls in the alternative scene or whether the alternative peeps just enjoy their music. M&D are signed to a major label, but they tour with smaller, but more well-known punk bands, which means that maybe the next time you get to see your favourite band, M&D will be there too.
See the thing is, we really like photoblogs, because it’s so easy to blog on those…Just resize your image (sometimes even not) and post them to the blog. No text, no boring comments, sometimes not even a title (what is up with that though?)
But anyway, we can’t really have a go at photoblogs since it’s not really rocket-science posting to Cool Crowd either. So we’ll just keep it at the fact that we really enjoy having a look at photoblogs every now and again. The only silly thing about these blogs are the fact that normally when you visit you view say 5 or 6 photos, which means that even if the publishers post daily, you can really visit it daily.
To get back to the reason for this blog: we found a pretty cool new photoblog, entitled friskyPics, and we think it’s worth your time reading our 2 cents on photoblogs and also checking them out!
Everyone, who is anybody, is jumping on the social networking / web 2.0 bandwagon - and mixing the old with the new seems even more popular! According to reports the UK’s Channel 4 have decided to audition candidates for their upcoming Big Brother series via Social Networks.
Apparently, their website, E4.com, will be redesigned to look more like MySpace & Friendster, with visitors being able to upload photos and videos, chat to other members and rate their stuff.
Channel 4 chief, Andy Duncan, has however gone the “safe route” by declaring that they will choose “at least one” contestant from social networking, which means that the majority will still be auditioned through “normal” means.
Although this is quite clever and it will give Channel 4 some cloud in the blogosphere, it is only conforming to Web 2.0 and thus to whatever everyone else is doing. But again we find ourselves in a situation, where we can diss / rant / comment too much, because after the big blogging boom, who got on the blogwagon as well? One of these days however, you’re not going to need to leave your computer screen, because we’ll all be Matrix-type “robots” and we’ll just be plugged into the system - Google and Microsoft (or MySpace perhaps) are still however fighting for the right to be in control of the Matrix…
November 23, 2006 at 5:52 am · Filed under Misc & Random
As you all can see, we’ve launched V3.0 of The Cool Crowd at last! After a very long night (of struggles), we can at last say that we are proud of this new look. Although the look is more conventional (than the previous), we feel we’ve gone for a more “traditional” layout and we sure feel that the increased effectivity and convenience to our readers, will make this a popular choice.
One of our biggest struggles, was resizing all of our images to fit into the main content window, since our content panel got resized from 600px to 480px in the redesign - the missing 120px has basicly gone to the third panel (just because 3 panel blogs are so “in” right now!). So we had to resize every single image individually, since you can “intelligently” batch a set of files in Photoshop…
And just as you think that this IS indeed the new and improved TCC, we promise you some more upgrades, which makes you want to come back every day to see if we’re done…Well, we will be adding some additional modules in the next few days, which we hope will make your experience on TCC so much cooler. Check back for the upgrades!
So this is the fairytale of the girl that sold advertising space on her soon-to-be-bought Macbook Pro and eventually got enough money to buy the Macbook. The clever girl in the fairytale is, Leah Culver and she is a computer programmer, who couldn’t afford a snazzy new Macbook Pro. So she went out and found a few sponsors who were willing to buy her one…
Everyone, who is anybody, is jumping on the social networking / web 2.0 bandwagon - and mixing the old with the new seems even more popular! According to reports the UK’s Channel 4 have decided to audition candidates for their upcoming Big Brother series via Social Networks.
