The Flicker Blog and Podcast

• Twitterati
  All things ‘twitter’, in a blog. If, like me, you are trying to contextualise the impact that such a seemingly trivial interaction is having in the insular world of web-folk, then this should be a good place to seek enlightenment.
  (tags: twitter blog web2.0 buzz)
• 5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne
  Title says it all. More stuff about the phenomenon of Twitter.
  (tags: twitter developer interview)
• Twitterment::What are we twittering?
  Search for (and even compare) buzz phrases on Twitter. What better way to define the continuous partial attention zeitgeist!
  (tags: twitter search buzz zeitgeist)

I’ve just been sent this link, containing a bunch of samples used by Daft Punk on their last album Discovery.

I should start by saying that personally, I’ve never liked the idea of sampling stuff in our releases, and take pride in the fact that every sound originated with us. Samplers are an amazing tool, and offer a huge range of creative possibilities when used imaginatively. We use them all the time to sample and manipulate sounds – not riffs.

Call me a snob, but out and out lifting of the hook of a track, with minimal extra input is not terribly clever or imaginative. Make your own mind up about the examples given here, but I was stunned. Completely.