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Commercial Jingles

6/20/2007 – 6:40 pm

My wife was a Communications major in college. So she often makes observations about how organizations try to get their message out to their audience. One thing she remarked on recently was the decline in the use of musical jingles, as opposed to non-musical slogans, in advertising. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Family, Fun, Personal | Also tagged Advertising, Suze | Comments (2)

Microformat for media descriptions

7/26/2005 – 10:06 am

I’m interested in coming up with a good metadata system for describing various sorts of media. Obviously, this ties in to my recent work on my “now playing” feature, and also into my interest in microformats. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Microformats, Semantics, Standards, Tech | Comments (2)

Now playing…

7/7/2005 – 9:49 am

About a year ago, I started to work on some code to include a “now playing” feature here. It would track music I was listening to in my media player (Winamp, at the time), and put the info in the sidebar of this site. [...]