Mr. Tunes

Enjoy the amazing work of animation pioneer Norman McLaren! Just brilliant! http://t.co/ZvlNPkCfVx

Early electronic music was institutionalized from the very moment of its birth. It was subject to the taste, and pocketbooks, of those running the institutions. Music produced by these studios was viewed as somehow more legitimate than music produced by outsiders. There was nothing liberal about the social context of electronic music. It was only liberated by those who cast off the institutions and produced it themselves.

Zynga is transforming the game industry. Traditional videogame companies create games they think players will like, then sell them. Zynga offers free games through Facebook Inc.'s social network, then studies data on how its audience plays them. It uses its findings to fiddle with the games to get people to play longer, tell more Facebook friends about them and buy more "virtual goods." At the heart of the whole process is Zynga's ability to analyze reams of data on how players are reacting to its games.