It's Not A Hit If It Can't Break The Internet - DTNS 3775
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Music blog Consequence of Sound's Meggie Gates wrote an article titled "Embracing a Future Where Memes Choose the Hit Songs. The fate of a pop artist now belongs in the hands of Twitch, Twitter, and Tik Tok". Is this true and if so who becomes the new musical taste makers?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, Amos
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| 0:00.0 | A tech demo shows off the usual tech things. |
| 0:03.7 | Then I'm going to jump to a link using the usual tech devices. |
| 0:07.0 | We have a pointing device called a mouse. |
| 0:09.0 | Doing the usual tech productivity tasks. |
| 0:11.4 | Now we're connected audio. You can see my work, you can point at it, and I can see |
| 0:15.7 | your face and we can talk. Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda for the |
| 0:20.5 | next half century, then almost immediately be ignored. |
| 0:24.4 | The mother of all demos on NOAA Little More. |
| 0:27.6 | Get it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:29.7 | My name is Carolyn Adonahue. My podcast is sentimental garbage and is currently being sponsored by Audible. |
| 0:39.0 | The Buffyverse is back. The cast old and new from the cult classic TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
| 0:45.3 | reunite for an all new adventure about connections that never die even if you bury |
| 0:50.1 | them. Ten years after the series finale, the game-changing spell that gave |
| 0:54.3 | power to all potential slayers still persists with new slayers constantly |
| 0:58.8 | emerging. Listen to slayers, a Buffy for a story now only on Audible. |
| 1:03.6 | Subscription required see Audible.co. UK for terms. |
| 1:08.8 | Attention all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 1:20.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 1:24.0 | Trains, now on Uber. |
| 1:27.0 | Tees and seas apply. |
| 1:28.0 | Check the Uber app. |
| 1:30.0 | Coming up on D.T. |
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