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This is the thanks you get for breaking news?

Tim Hanlon — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:45:07 +0000

Thanks, Google

Gizmag breaks a story with 2280 words, 42 images and a video. Engadget covers it and goes straight to #1 in the SERPs. Don’t let anyone tell you that search is solved.

In an attempt to push things in the right direction, you should go check out the Canon Wonder Camera. The future is awesome.

Smartphones and synthesizers

Tim Hanlon — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:48:32 +0000

With CTIA 2010 in full swing, I jumped back behind the reins at The Mobiler for the week and published over 40 posts. There’s been some gorgeous phones announced, namely the first “4G” (WiMAX, not LTE) handset, the HTC EVO 4G (which is the sexiest pairing of Android and the 1GHz Snapdragon processor to date) – it’s headed to Sprint’s WiMAX network this year.

…but the coolest thing I wrote about this week wasn’t a smartphone.

It was the Korg monotron analog synthesizer.

My studio already has a few pieces of Korg gear (the Kaoss Pad 2, the Kaoss Pad 3 and the set of three nanoSeries MIDI controllers I picked up for a steal in Tokyo) and the monotron will undoubtedly be the next. It’s a simple, but fully analog synthesizer with the same filter used in the classic Korg MS-10 and MS-20 synths, for an absolute no-brainer price of US$85. As Peter Kirn at the fantastic CreateDigitalMusic blog points out, it’s also likely to be hack/mod/bend-friendly. Totally pumped.

My favorite graph

Tim Hanlon — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:39:42 +0000

Yeah, the last six months have been awesome.

As an aside, I have no idea why so many sites still aren’t running Quantcast tags. Sure, the rankings are US-centric, but look at how wrong their panel-based competition are getting it…