meI'm David. I live in Boulder, CO and help run Next Big Sound. I check my email. Here are some things I've created.

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Forest Fire - Fortune Teller

I love finding those wonderful songs that have been on my computer for more than a year but that I never really took the time to listen to. I’m sure there’s a ton of gems I’m missing out on that are only a few clicks away. Kind of a shame, but then again, look at how much music the world is producing each year and how easily distributed and acquired it is. We’re living in the ultimate music buffet. Thanks internet!

02/08/10 • 1 note • #thanks internet • Played 15 times


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Our world may be a giant hologram

we’re living in the Future with a capital F.

02/07/10 • 0 notes


What we want from our technology, in its most elemental form, is to make our thoughts happen. Sure, it’s still very much sci-fi in 2010, but what every calculating machine and telephone and computer and phonograph and light bulb and hammer and every tool ever invented is about at its core is our desire, our evolutionary imperative to control our environment at our will. And we’re getting closer and closer to that happening.
lonelysandwich: Adaptation
02/06/10 • 88 notes • Reblogged from lonelysandwich↩


Humans suffer from a subjective viewpoint. We see the universe with us at the center of it. It’s almost impossible to gauge anything outside of our own desires…when we size up a new gadget such as the iPad we consider first and foremost: “What good is it TO ME?”.

User experience designers, however, cannot long suffer this fate. We must design (and hopefully critique other designs) from a more objective viewpoint.

52 Weeks of UX: Apple’s iPad: For what Audience?
01/28/10 • 49 notes • Reblogged from 52weeksofux↩


soundcloud: Our friends from Next Big Sound over in Boulder, Colorado, just announced the addition of 15 new services that track fan interactions with online music. SoundCloud is one of them! You can now track fan interactions on 15 services (that’s 10 more, and there’s another on the way!) across the internet. Our goal with adding more services is to provide a comprehensive picture of the quantifiable actions fans take when interacting with artists online. For a guide to what we track check out nextbigsound.com/#track. Thanks to David and Alex for making this happen! If you don’t know Next Big Sound, make sure to check them out and start by checking out the blog post about the integration. high-res photo

soundcloud:

Our friends from Next Big Sound over in Boulder, Colorado, just announced the addition of 15 new services that track fan interactions with online music. SoundCloud is one of them!

You can now track fan interactions on 15 services (that’s 10 more, and there’s another on the way!) across the internet. Our goal with adding more services is to provide a comprehensive picture of the quantifiable actions fans take when interacting with artists online. For a guide to what we track check out nextbigsound.com/#track.

Thanks to David and Alex for making this happen!

If you don’t know Next Big Sound, make sure to check them out and start by checking out the blog post about the integration.

01/28/10 • 8 notes • Reblogged from soundcloud↩


If you’re on Dribble friend me up. high-res photo

If you’re on Dribble friend me up.

01/27/10 • 0 notes


Next Big Sound: now tracking wikipedia pageviews for artists across the internet.

Next Big Sound: now tracking wikipedia pageviews for artists across the internet.

01/26/10 • 9 notes


The engineers and I handle customer support. When I tell people that, they look at me like I’m smoking crack. They say, “Why would you pay an engineer $150,000 to answer phones when you could pay someone in Arizona $8 an hour?” If you make the engineers answer e-mails and phone calls from the customers, the second or third time they get the same question, they’ll actually stop what they’re doing and fix the code. Then we don’t have those questions anymore.
The Way I Work: Paul English of Kayak (via soxiam)
01/26/10 • 129 notes • Reblogged from soxiam↩


nonwriting: General Delight, you guys. The short and sweet: GeneralDelight.com is live, hosting a smattering of content that the General Delight crew has made over the past five months. I am really proud of the work, and would love it if you would check out the videos. Probably new to you: This Is Fashion and Poor Joel (which I wrote, and am very proud of), so at the very least, check those two out. Check back often, as we’re constantly adding content. Click here, or click-through for the .com Go Tyler. Check it out. Nicely done.

nonwriting:

General Delight, you guys.

The short and sweet: GeneralDelight.com is live, hosting a smattering of content that the General Delight crew has made over the past five months. I am really proud of the work, and would love it if you would check out the videos.

Probably new to you: This Is Fashion and Poor Joel (which I wrote, and am very proud of), so at the very least, check those two out.

Check back often, as we’re constantly adding content.

Click here, or click-through for the .com

Go Tyler. Check it out. Nicely done.

01/25/10 • 4 notes • Reblogged from nonwriting↩


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Kid Sister - Right Hand Hi

01/21/10 • 0 notes • Played 16 times