Science and Technology

Perhaps the area where the president is most beholden to the religious right, and the area of my greatest disagreement with him, is where the pro-life extreme bleeds into stem cell research policy. I have no logical problem with those who are pro-life: I may disagree with them, but I …

Warner Brothers Records is the only major label that hasn’t got around to discovering Blogcritics – can’t be bothered I guess, which would indicate to me a high level of cluelessness. While I admire WB’s efforts to integrate themselves into the Byzantine world of blogs – but not yet Blogcritics, …

Here is my day today: I sent out a group email to all 500+ of our members via my Compuserve account regarding our 2nd anniversary and other administrative things. I was told – when AOL absorbed Compuserve and we were switched over to the AOL mail system a couple of …

Perhaps you remember the original concept of Blogcritics.org: “free CDs for bloggers”. Blogcritics celebrates its 2nd anniversary in August, and as it turned out we were way ahead of our time: the concept that record companies, DVD distributors, book publishers, etc., would provide review material for bloggers was met with …

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 …

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: …

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 …

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 …

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 …

David Flanagan mentions an outbreak of blogging by Iraqis as a positive sign of political progress in Iraq. This brings up a point I haven’t seen discussed much: casualties are a bitter pill and should stick in the craw of every one of us. And there is a point beyond …