Thursday , March 28 2024

Culture and Society

Blogging the Convention

I’ve avoided talking about the bloggers at the DNC because thus far I hadn’t heard anything very interesting either from or about the 30 or so bloggers at the convention, other than that there are 30 or so bloggers at the convention. What’s coolest and unique about blogging – for …

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I Jab Your Parody, I Jib Your Satire

As RJ mentioned here, JibJab.com has a very funny, balanced even, parody/satire (the distinction is critical) flash animation movie with President George Bush and Senator John Kerry singing to the tune of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.” The publisher of the song is miffed and making threatening noises: …

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Peter Gabriel: Digital Music Entrepreneur

Peter Gabriel, who co-founded UK online music distributor On Demand Distribution (OD2), which was sold to U.S. company Loudeye in June for $38.6m, talks with CNN on the future of the music biz, digital distribution of music, and stuff: Anderson: What motivated you, a successful, musician and artist in your …

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INDUCE Act: I Am Induced to Vomit

Allow me to be blunt – not that I really have to ask permission, but I like to give the impression that I am not totally solipsistic – the INDUCE Act utterly sucks cat piss through an infected straw, as first mentioned here. This is yet another attempt by the …

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BlueBeat.com

I imagine it is perversely appropriate that high quality audio Internet radio appears to have arrived in conjunction with air-tight copy-protection. BlueBeat.com: The service features over 400,000 tracks of near CD-quality in over 100 genres and 320 channels, covering more than a century of music, and streams secure MP3s at …

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New Heart Album Via P2P

Heart, the semi-legendary rock and pop band led by singer Ann and guitarist Nancy Wilson, has a new album out, Jupiter’s Darling, their first album of new material in over a decade, which in addition to regular old CD, is available on a try it before you buy it basis …

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Cheaper, Thinner iPods – Apple vs Sony

Apple seems to be serious about holding on to its digital music business: Apple said the new model iPod has up to 12 hours of battery life, compared with eight hours in previous models. Poor battery performance in some iPods has drawn criticism. The 20-gigabyte model, which can hold about …

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