Joseph Fosco

I am Joseph Fosco, a Composer and Sound Designer based in Chicago. You can find out more about me at my website josephfosco.com, and you can subscribe to the RSS feed for this tumblelog here.

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May
26th

Sat

… think before you say something stupid. Or punch something hard.

— Jim McCarthy on Live 2.0

Feb
16th

Thu

the-sharp-end:

+/- 20 minutes of your day well spent

Mar
4th

Fri

It makes no sense to have a big corporate infrastructure to do, basically, the main task of a media organization (which) is to present information to its ultimate customers who are the readers, and if you don’t do that, you don’t have a business.

— Om Malik on This week In Tech. Replace “media organization” with “theatre” and make other similiar, relevant changes and you have another very timely statement.

Feb
2nd

Wed

Isn’t this costing you money? Are you bad at business?

There are some costs, primarily the storage costs, which are currently under $100 a month. If the site grows much larger, they will be significant, but not unmanageable.

I pay these out of pocket for a few reasons: I want to promote independent music and display the wonderful amazing fact that the music distribution model has changed. One average person can singlehandedly float hundreds of musicians, thousands of mp3s and hundreds of thousands of downloads. Incredible - it points to pretty crazy and amazing future world of music.

— The Alonetone About page

(Source: alonetone.com)

Aug
20th

Fri

The reason most advertising (and artistic endeavors) are lousy is not that people set out to create crap. It’s that creating something good is really, really hard. And there are very few people who can do it.

— Brian Belefant on 60 Second Director

Aug
7th

Sat

To be clear, if the New York Times is to be believed, Verizon and Google aren’t just contesting the FCC’s plan; they’re deciding to pre-emptively disobey it.

— The Economist

…that we have any regulators at all is a testament, on some basic level, to the idea that companies left to their own devices don’t always act in the best interests of the market.

If companies always agreed with regulators’ rules, there would be no need for regulators. The very point of a regulator is to do things that companies don’t like, out of concern for the welfare of the market or the consumer.

— The Economist

Jun
19th

Sat

Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.

— Scott Adams

May
7th

Fri

It is not acceptable to me that 21st century knowledge retention has become so short and shallow as to be overwritten by influential ranting on Twitter.

— Understand The Web by Ben Ward

Mar
30th

Tue

Be careful of the “everyones” who say pageviews are imperfect but the best we can do. They’re the ones who are happy with the web as a market for bullshit.

— John Gruber on Daring Fireball