DISS is a micro-portal and blog for sound related topics. Creator David Holmes is a former sound engineer and indie studio manager based in the UK. David blogs about indie music and new media projects in areas relating to digital audio, content distribution, creative commons, multimedia, music production, podcasting, video, web startups, open source and free software tools. He is a founding curator of the "Open Media Directory" at Ourmedia.org, a clearinghouse for sources of legal, podsafe audio and video. DISS is listed on Microsoft's best of Windows Live Spaces website.