So now we can all have MySpace widgets cluttering up our other web spaces. For some reason my pu...
In the past sites like MySpace have locked users into their own site and jealously guarded membe...
He talks about his archives, giving away Living With War, and his car project.
Here at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco Neil Young just announced that his whole life's ...
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/interview_with_neil_young.php
May 07, 2008
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More details of the 'modular hardware' approach to radio with built-in social networking. confir...
Olinda is an extendable and customisable radio. On the side of Olinda is a studded, magnetic con...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/05/olinda_a_new_radio.shtml
May 06, 2008
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A similar idea to PartyStrands for coffee shops, though I'm not quite sure how it works. [via Te...
Mark Silver has designed PODDITTIES symphony, which is a design intervention marketed to indepen...
http://thrivingtoo.typepad.com/thriving_too/2008/05/community-throu.html
May 06, 2008
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Deleted CDs will be produced to order - presumably deflating the price of rarities? The long tai...
Amazon has made deals with Sony BMG, EMI and other labels to bring hundreds of out-of-print alb...
http://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/2008/05/out-of-print-cd.html
May 05, 2008
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Does it what is says on the tin.
Can't remember whether Schulze and Webb are a BBC-spinoff (I'm fairly sure Webb used to work the...
Six lights on Olinda show when a close friend is listening to the radio, using wifi and Radio Po...
This appears to enable managers to make distribution (n.b. Billboard, 'distro' is not in the Eng...
"Instead of relying on the traditional label system to release content, artists and managers can...
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i8ccff8ef2246288d376cad1699182422
May 02, 2008
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Superbly concise post on the nature of the problems facing the advertising industry. Favourite q...
Extracting attention using advertising agencies isn't suddenly impossible, it's just gradually b...
http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2008/04/dying-like-coal.html
May 01, 2008
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Review of Pere Ubu's QEH performance
Thomas has rewritten and updated Jarry's provocative original text, but sadly he has not improve...
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/drama/reviews/story/0,,2276914,00.html
May 01, 2008
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History of 'pataphysical connections with rock music
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,2275779,00.html
May 01, 2008
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Some quite scary information about how Facebook apps can steal not just your personal data, but ...
We wrote an evil data mining application called Miner, which, if we wanted, could masquerade as ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7375772.stm
May 01, 2008
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Great little intervention in the 'slow web' -- using postcards instead of twitter for 'status up...
dawdlr is a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: what are yo...
Abstract of a research paper by Nancy Baym about what friend relationships on Last.fm actually s...
We found that on average, the relationships were of moderately low strength, just below the midp...
http://www.onlinefandom.com/archives/how-good-a-friend-is-a-lastfm-friend/
Apr 29, 2008
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Detailed review of the Union Chapel gig I went to
http://www.rbergholz.net/lukabloom/review/fanreviews8.htm#210408
Apr 27, 2008
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A free and advertising-free classical music streaming service. Why aren't there more services li...
Very extensive and detailed account of all the rights and permissions involved in putting a musi...
Is it now safe to include music in videos you upload to Google's YouTube? I don't mean uploading...
http://www.consumingexperience.com/2007/09/google-youtube-music-in-videos-legal.html
Apr 24, 2008
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Focusing on pop culture from 1968-90, apparently. I'm not sure if this will be US-only, since th...
GetBack Media is set to launch with music and TV content focusing on pop culture from 1968-90. T...
It's not clear from this article whether there is substance to this new psychology of persuasion...
The Psychology of Facebook is the brainchild of Professor B J Fogg, a pioneering persuasion psyc...
Interesting perspective borrowed from evolutionary biology: Rich argues that relying on just one...
Evolutionary biology shows us one metaphor for this trap of stylistic boundaries, in terms of sp...
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/04/the_reality_of.php
Apr 22, 2008
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Geist investigates the cost of copies of works held by museums and public collections. Sometimes...
Many museums receive regular requests for copies of works in their collection to be reproduced i...
I feel sorry for Gerd that he's having to throw in the towel due to licensing issues. At the sam...
We therefore had to realize that a company that wants to provide interactive streaming music ser...
Raymond Tallis could be about to become a new hero of mine.
For an academic, there are many reasons for going “interdisciplinary”. You can, as John Bayl...
Apr 22, 2008
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A competitor for Jadam Kahn's Music 2.0 directory. The clincher will be how well it is maintaine...
We have one simple mission: To list the best social services available on the net. Web2.0 simpli...
Challenging, and defending, a four-level model of evaluating e-learning.
While acknowledging that Kirkpatrick's four levels of evaluation had proved valuable over more t...
http://clive-shepherd.blogspot.com/2008/04/what-problem-with-kirkpatrick.html
Apr 22, 2008
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