Michele’s Freeminding

As usual, here’s my Best of… for 2007.

Best Books

This list includes books I’ve read this year, which weren’t necessarily released in 2007.

Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano
La Musica Sveglia il Tempo by Daniel Barenboim
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days by Jessica Livingston

Best Albums

Lifeline by Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace by [...]

In the past few years, I realized how difficult it is to find new talented artist through mainstream media, and that was probably the main reason I started loosing interest in music, which had been a love of mine since I was a little one.
Not that I didn’t listen to music anymore, I was simply [...]

I think I’m currently in rant-mode, so here’s another one. ;)

We all know CDs cost money, software often costs LOTS of money, DVDs aren’t certainly cheap and on and on. Yet, this isn’t a good excuse to illegally download this stuff from the Internet.

Many of the people I know who download music, software or [...]

To wrap 2006 up, here’s my Best of… for this year.

Yesterday, Pearl Jam’s new album was released and, of course, I bought it yesterday morning.

I’ve already listened to it a few times and I must say it’s not bad at all.
You can always expect something good from great bands like they are, but it definitely exceeded my expectations.

First of all, I liked it’s aggressiveness. They’ve [...]