One of the new attendees at this year
ISMIR (the Music Information Retrieval conference) was
Anthony Volodkin, the founder of the music discovery site
The Hype Machine. Anthony is part of the web 2.0
startup culture so he certainly knows about geeks. Here are some of Anthony's
tweets during the conference:
- Haven't been so repeatedly and consistently outgeeked this way in a long time, ISMIR rocks! 06:17 PM September 15, 2008
- ISMIR's geeks outgeek Web 2.0 NY geeks by a massive margin 02:21 PM September 15, 2008
- ISMIR 2008 is hardcore-geeky, I love it! First talk is on relationship of geometry and musical consonance... !!! 06:16 AM September 15, 2008
Anthony is a great guy to talk to - he's really smart, understands
better than almost anyone what it takes to build a site that people will
want to visit, and perhaps most important of all - he is extremely
passionate about music - which is key to success in the music 2.0 world.