Thursday , March 28 2024

Culture and Society

Blog of the Nation

With blogs turning up in the mainstream media virtually every day, it astounds me that there are still vast swaths of the population that haven’t heard of them. So the more coverage the merrier, evne if it’s the same story over and over again. NPR’s Talk of the Nation did …

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(Mostly) Live and Active

Although I haven’t attended, I am totally down with the Bonnaroo concept of peace, love and eclectic jam bands, and I have no problem with declaring this year’s show another success – the numbers speak for themselves. But what I don’t get is an extended pat on one’s back that …

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Blogonomics

As all regular readers and contributors know, we’ve had a roller coaster ride here at Blogcritics over the last few weeks: we had to pick up and change hosting companies precipitously with the cost in that area rising dramatically, the move also generating all kinds of technical issues that have …

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Blogsnow

The invaluable ResourceShelf site tells us about a new blog resource called Blogsnow. “Blogsnow ‘reads’ blogs, depending on what’s going on between 100 and 240 a minute. Out of this stream of information it extracts links and displays them in different views every 10 minutes.” “In the top section you …

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Mercora – Legal P2P Via Webcasting

The legal and regulatory points are arcane and bone dry, but the implications for the future of file sharing are staggering. A little rethinking goes a long way, it would appear – this is very clever: A former McAfee CEO appears to have found a way around the legal minefield …

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GarageBand.com Sets Them Free

GarageBand.com is offering the Creative Commons Music Sharing License to artists who want to share their music via the site for free: The license allows fans to legally download, copy and share the song as many times as they want, as long as they don’t sell or alter it. For …

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