Archive for August, 2005

iTunes Music Store Japan

« 8 August 2005 | 15:09 | diary, media, music, sonystyle | No Comments »

So iTunes Music Store finally hits Japan, and already in 4 days burps out 1 millions tunes. 4 days. And it’s a burp, given the over 500 million songs iTMS has sold globally. 1 millions tunes in 4 days, and that’s without one of the largest record labels’ library – Sony Music [...]

The Ugliness Problem

« 8 August 2005 | 14:56 | diary | No Comments »

Stylesignals has an amusing blurb on an “ugliness problem”. May explain the ‘nature’ part, but ‘nurture’ these days seems to be dominated more by media than anything else. Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder … but who’s the beholder now?