Monthly Archives: May 2009

Set List

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Working up ideas for a set list if I start doing coffee house gigs with just the acoustic and a harmonica. Every time I think of a song, I’ve been texting them in to Twitter. Here’s the list I’ve built so far:

  1. Quiet Town – Josh Rouse
  2. Stop Breaking Down – The Rolling Stones
  3. Simplesmente – Bebel Gilberto
  4. Loving Cup – The Stones
  5. Horsin’ Around – Prefab Sprout
  6. Eu Nao Existe Sem Voce – Tom Jobim
  7. Disco Apocalypse – Jackson Browne
  8. Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before – The Smiths
  9. Ventilator Blues – The Stones
  10. Inanna – Stephen Pickering
  11. Aquarella do Brasil – Gal Costa
  12. Ciranda – Marcio Faraco
  13. Heart of Snow – Greta Gaines
  14. Ugly Stories – Josh Rouse
  15. Axe Gnawa – Celso Machado
  16. Rubber Ring – The Smiths
  17. London Bridges – Josh Rouse
  18. The Ocean- Richard Hawley
  19. Walking Through The Park – blues
  20. Cantando No Toro – Chico Buraque
  21. Domesticated Lovers – Josh Rouse
  22. The Clear Coast – Josh Rouse
  23. World – Paz Suay

Did Flickr Just Kill Itself?

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Am I missing something? When I originally signed up for Flickr it was unlimited photos with only a limitation on the amount I could upload per month. Today I get a message saying I’ve just uploaded 200 photos and that I’ll have to pay for a pro account in order to see any but my most recent 200 photos. Is this not news? Did this change of TOS just happen recently? I realize that 24.95 is not a lot to pay per year, but it isn’t a lot to pay for Facebook or Twitter either, but what would happen to those services if they decided that you can only look at your most recent 200 items unless you paid. They’d be gone. Why am I not hearing more written about this on the internets? Flickr is the only piece of Web 2.0 credibility that Flickr has, and I think they’ve just killed it. Why not just move to Picasaweb or Photobucket? ¬†The photos that I’ve uploaded there came from my phone directly sent by MMS. Are the ones beyond the 200 mark that I can’t look at now being held hostage unless I pay the 24.95 ransom. This ¬†is bad karma all the way around. They at least should have grandfathered in existing users who signed up like I under a different understanding.

But the money is missing the point. The money is in exposure and search. Why for heaven’s sake are there no ads on Flickr? That’s their revenue model. Thoughts? Am I missing something? Am I wrong?