May 22, 2012

Data Mining by Target (and other companies)

From The New York Times, how companies like Target are using data mining to market to you:
New York Times - How Companies Learn Your Secrets

Kid Koala, Arcade Fire, The Naked and Famous



Kid Koala - Moon River Remix (Picnic Electronik): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSsErpzoqr0



Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (MTV World Stage 2010): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QaAdT3zHLs



 The Naked and Famous - Young Blood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YuSg4mts9E&ob=av3n

Dumping out my bookmarks

I have one saved draft in my Hotmail account full of copy-pasted links, and bookmarks spread across multiple browsers, because like I wrote in a much earlier post, the music videos/magazine articles/whatever else I come across on the internet, these are the cultural puzzle pieces, these digital artifacts markered by URLs, these links that could become broken and useless at any moment, these are the things that make me who I am, and I'd like to make some attempt to save them.  Anyways.  I'm going to post some of my bookmarked stuff here, treating this sort of like a Tumblr I guess, just because I don't want to have to sign up for yet another website.