Machine Shop: Hype Machine Team Blog

A Softer World offers beautifully offbeat strips. Here are a few (click to see full size):

Joey Comeau, the co-creator of the comic, also has some really peculiar, cover letters full of everything you ever wished to write in one. Great read.

I’ve temporarily disabled searching on the site. The volume of searches was getting too high and things were slowing down.

I can’t get another server to expand capacity just yet, but hopefully will be able to soon.

You can still find some of the tracks by clicking on the artist names as they appear next to each track.

UPDATE: I offloaded some of the searching on a temporary server, so searching is back for a bit. Let’s see how this works.

Trying out something different:

On the front page with tracks or posts, try the “show fewer” link right next to the date.

This will show only the posts and tracks by the top 50 music blogs. To get back to the normal way of looking at things, click “show more” on those pages, right in the same spot.

Inspired by Alf Eaton’s original MP3 Blog TopList there is now a similar list for blogs that are listed on the Hype Machine.

They are sorted by a score which calculated by multiplying the number of users who have the blog bookmarked at del.icio.us by the number of sites that link to the blog as reported by the Technorati search engine.

Have a look!

A little while ago, I added the ability to include stuff from the Hype Machine on any website. Several of you noticed and did just that.

Thank you!

Here’s who put one of these up so far (in no particular order):

Silence is a Rhythm too
CubikMusik
aka::Raff
Brooklyn Ski Club
Music for Ants
My Ex Best Friend
Boy and His Blog
Trees Lounge
Kibbe Rocks the City
Shannon Palmer’s arty arty blog
The Ledgers of Life

I think that’s it – I am happy you all found it useful!

If you would like to get a badge too, have a look here