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Tag Archives: Internet

Napster On Campus

Being a mega-busy media mogul perched in front of a computer at least 12 hours a day, not having the brainpower sufficient to concentrate on writing-editing-logistics-managing-marketing-and the like WHILE also listening to music, AND sitting on top of 25,000 or so CDs that just keep on trickling in day after …

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Hilton Hacking Techno Teen Sentenced

No, it wasn’t Nicole Richie who hacked Paris Hilton’s Sidekick — the snooty phone-organizer-camera device that stores videos, photos and other data on T-Mobile’s central computer servers — and posted her revealing photos and celebrity phone numbers on the Internet. The culprit wasn’t Hilton’s estranged best pal and co-star of …

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Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit, Sept 11-13

This is big time stuff: the Future of Music Policy Summit, now in its fifth year, brings top-notch experts together with musicians, attorneys, advocates and policymakers to explore emerging music/technology issues through panels, guest speakers and robust debate, September 11-13 at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Over the course …

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Needed Katrina Humor, Perspectives

I haven’t looked forward to a television show as much as I looked forward to Jon Stewart’s take on Katrina, which ran last night. And wow, it was perfect. Show excerpts, courtesy of the Daily Kos “Now, for you people who are saying “Well, stop pointing fingers at the president…left-wing…the …

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“Censored news” and real news

Every year Project Censored puts out a list of what it considers the most censored important news stories of the year. And apparently I’m not alone in wondering just how a story can be censored when the size of the media changes literally each time someone else starts a blog. …

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