Håvard Sørbø

A big chunk of new norwegian music on Spotify.

2009-10-02T00:49:08+02:00

If you browse through the releases added to spotify march 13 and 20, there are a HUGE chunk of norwegian releases.

This is a list of a select FEW artist that are either new to spotify or has updated. This is only a fraction.
(Click read more for the list)

Vamp
Lillebjørn Nilsen
Ane Brun
Datarock
Madcon
Natalie Nordnes
Röyksopp
Anne-Cath. Vestly (audio books)
Bugge Wesseltoft
Cato Salsa Experience
DDR
Dollie De Luxe
Jaga Jazzist
(Bjøro Håland)
Jan Eggum
Jannicke
Jan Werner Danielsen
Karin Park
Lars Martin Myhre
Leif Juster
Lyd
Maj Britt Andersen
Mohr
Odd Børretzen
Odd Nordstoga
Paal Flaata
Ralph Myerz
Robert Normann
Rune Rudberg
Sølvguttene
Satyricon
Side Brok
Sigmund Groven
St. Thomas
Sputink
Syntax TerrOrkester
Trøste & Bære
Unni Wilhelmsen
Vazelina Bilopphøggers
Vinskvetten
Vidar Busk
Vidar Johansen
Wenche Myhre
Xploding Plastix

I can't justify buying music anymore

2009-10-02T00:47:35+02:00

I'm not the biggest consumer of music, but I think my consumption exceeds the average norwegian. I guess i bought ca. 20 albums last year and I spent at least 7.000 NOK on concert tickets. My concern now is with how much of my consumption reaches IFPI's hands. IFPI is pushing hard to start censoring the internet. Freedom of speech and the avoidance of censorship is amongst the values I hold highest, I cannot fund an organization that is fighting this. I'm in a situation where I find it immoral to buy most of the music out there. I won't be a accomplice in censoring internet. I'm not sure how I'm going to solve this but I guess I'll have to look into how the money I propagated through the system. Hopefully very little of concert-fees and indie-albums goes to IFPI. When it comes to the rest, well there are other ways of getting it!

IFPI also needs to understand that there are alternatives, like spotify and http://www.bardvegar.no/2009/02/lovleg-fildeling-med-tono-avgift/. They always claim that you can't compete with free, I think you can. Convenience sells. Doing nothing but complaining and suing everything sure as hell won't solve this.

New blog-engine

2009-10-02T00:43:29+02:00

I had to drop Drupal as my CMS / blog. It was a beast, with cumbersome administraion-UI. Every time I wanted to blog there was a new security-release and the painful update progress had to start. Now I settled for a much more lightweight solution. Habari is the new blog-engine. It lacks some features compared to drupal, but it's slick and pretty easy to work with. It has many plugins. The thing I enjoyed most though is that it can use sqlite as a database. Of course thats a little slower and doesn't scale, but traffic isn't really a problem on personal pages. It means that I can do a full backup just by copying files and a full restore is unpacking files. Please report quirks if you find any. Also the rss is moved to feedburner, but this should be a transparent update as I put a 301 redirect on the old rss,
I'm going blog more frequently now.

Shared RSS-items

2009-10-02T00:42:21+02:00

I get most of my daily news from rss-feeds. I'm subscribing about 100 feeds. Still there are a lot of news I'm missing. One of my favorite news-sources is others shared RSS. That is I can subscribe to what some of my friends find really cool and recommends. One example is Jonas' shared items which brings me lots of interesting blogposts.

Now, here is my shared items: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/hsorbo/shared

Ooops

2009-08-22T14:30:27+02:00

I forgot to upgrade my blog-engine during the summer and someone thrashed it. I also forgot to back it up so I need a few days to get things up and running.