I'd be interested to try this out on my Eee -- I understand the UI metaphor is distinctly differ...
An independent effort to develop the software originally designed for the $100 laptop has been l...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7405346.stm
today at 6:10pm UTC
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Quite an interesting overview and perspective on who DRM has actually benefited (Apple), and how...
Mark Mulligan, digital music analyst at Jupiter Research, also expects Apple to change its appro...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/15/drm.apple
today at 10:26am UTC
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This is one of those research findings that sounds incredible from the headline (music affects t...
The test subjects were assigned to a red-wine group (given cabernet sauvignon) or a white-wine g...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080515.wwine15/BNStory/lifeFoodWine/home
today at 9:57am UTC
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A drop is a chunk of space you can use to store and share anything privately (pictures, videos, ...
Profile on Eno's birthday. Small snippets of new material, plus much repetition.
May 15, 2008
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Interesting chart of who's up and who's down among the most popular streaming services. Lots of ...
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/05/imeem-unseats-y.html
May 15, 2008
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Unedited transcript of Louise Gray's interview with Laurie Anderson for this month's Cross Platf...
Google seems to be offering to add a layer of social interaction across sites that have limited ...
"Many sites aren't explicitly social and don't necessarily want to be social networks, but they ...
A twitter-a-like service for passing on word-of-mouth music recommendations [via Music Ally]
Blip is a quick way to tell your friends what song you're into right this minute. You also find ...
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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