Are you working at the Lovely HQ or another open space office?

Do you like listening to music when working?
Are you sick of your colleagues (especially people like manfred) shouting at you when you have your headphones on?
Here is something for you.

I just added a page to download the RJ aka Reality Jockey application. The Lovely office is an open space office and we have a couple of people who are more productive when they are listening to music (bernd, armin, me, me, and me again) and we have others who are totally ineffective with music (jürgen, manfred, manfred and manfred again).

So we solved the problem. Using RJ you can now listen to your favorite music via your headphones and at the same time staying connected with the world around you.

Lovely people, get your headphones out now!

I m in berlin at the moment and just remembered a conversation i had with Markus Schneider whom i met here last time i visited the city. Markus is music journalist for the Berliner Zeitung. He told me how hard it was during the 80ties and 90ties to get qualified information about new music. But since 2000 he is recognizing a major increase of general music-knowledge. “Even talking to youngsters about music today, reveals an amazing knowledge about non mainstream genres.”

As cofounder of last.fm this is music to my ears. Why?

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News from Sibelius:
Avid Acquires Sibelius, Expands Reach into Global Education Market.
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i just received a mail from Jeremy Silver telling me that the deal is done and dusted. When it comes to music notation there is (was) exactly one company, sibelius. i m very curious what Jeremy is up for next ;-)