Our geeks are geekier than your geeks!

Published: September 30, 2008, 7:03 am

Tags: music

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.

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