Thursday , March 28 2024

Culture and Society

Sans Email?

Could you function without email? I hate spam as much as anyone but it takes me only a very small porton of my time and attention to delete it – I don’t even have to open 95% of it to know what it is and that I don’t want/need to …

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“It’s not like I’m selling it”

The NY Times reports the RIAA is losing the morality battle among the Youth of Today, or at least this segment thereof. Remember, over time perception IS reality: IT shouldn’t be illegal,” said 14-year-old Sonya Arndt. “It’s not like I’m selling it.” “Isn’t it like recording movies?” asked Korbi Blanchard, …

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“NO desire to see the U.S. go”

My friend Stephen is on tour playing music in Syria, Kuwait, Lebanon. He had a hell of a time emailing from Syria – this report comes from Kuwait: I’m now in Kuwait where mercifully the internet is not (as) censored!!! I can’t imagine how much effort those guys go to …

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Broadband Accelerating

Besides all the political, legal, and cultural machinations driving the need to resolve outstanding digital content and copyright issues, the spread of broadband is also quickening the pulse: The global number of broadband subscribers grew 72 per cent in 2002 to approximately 62 million, according to a report from the …

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These Foolish Things Remind Me of You

Okay, it’s a little bit creepy and obsessive, but it’s mostly sweet and touching and another set of uses for the artifacts of our culture – that’s OUR culture, not the songwriters, the singers, the record labels – OURS: Kenneth Roberts is an old man with a broken heart and …

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Report From the Digital Trenches

Today is a critical day in the digital entertainment wars: an updated study says copyright needs to be seriously revamped to balance the needs of the public with those of rights holders and creators; one ISP stands firm against the RIAA while another goes back to court to challenge the …

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“Everywhere Internet Audio”

There is no question the idea of turning music into a service rather than a commodity has achieved critical mass, getting prominent placement in America’s “newspaper of record,” the NY Times, in the last week alone. Of course EVERYONE is talking about the future of music now that the RIAA …

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Attention: Readers

If you read (and you read this), your input is sought: Hello, I’m an author working on a book about the importance of reading. I’m trying to gather information about reading people’s reading habits and and how it impacts our lives for use in the book. I’ve posted a short …

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See That Train a Comin’

Now an Internet tax for file sharing has broached the pages of the NY Times – the meme is in the air. Do you doubt it will be the answer? Others fear that, as the futility of technological fixes becomes clearer, the response may be onerous legal restrictions on the …

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