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They’re only…what…20 years late?
Is it just me, or is this a desparately classic case of old folks (i.e., people my age) just not realizing that the world has moved on a wee bit? The University of Minnesota Office of Information Technology is proud to announce that the University of Minnesota is soon to become a member of ResearchChannel. [...]
The world at your fingertips
A couple of weeks ago the wonderful Desert Donkey posted a comment tipping us to a nice article at Atlantic.com on the future of radio. The iPod shows you mainly what’s already going on in your head—it’s cool, but only as cool as solipsism can ever be. I’ve got a way cooler device: a squat [...]
Problems with signal-to-noise
Great minds (which clearly leaves mine out of the running) continue to be annoyed by the same cultural artifacts here and there. Yesterday at lunch one of the locals asked whether I found it awkward being away from the U.S. election coverage during all this primary action. As was the case when we were here [...]
“Poor, stupid deluded Sony BMG”
I ran across this great dismantling on Whatever of Sony BMG’s truly ludicrous new semi-kinda-sorta-DRM free music system last night and just about wet myself giggling. Kid #2: So to recap, what you’ve got here is a system that makes people leave their house in order to download music at their house, and makes them [...]
Posted in Mildly amusing, Music Also tagged copyright, DRM, intellectual property, Music Comments closed
Twilight of the novel?
The death of the book has been oft prophesied, and so far the old dear keeps hanging in there. Here Bill Janssen is quoted by Peter Brantley, suggesting that what the casualties may be are forms of content rather than forms of publishing. Will the novel become a marginal form like opera? In the hype [...]
Squeak book available under Creative Commons license
In a neat confluence of recent posts on both Squeak and book marketing, Squeak by example is being made available as a free PDF or in printed form via lulu.com. Cool. Big ups to open… for the tip. Tags: Books, Computing, media distribution, publishing, Squeak Related posts Twilight of the novel? (0) Randomoid stuff from [...]
Show me what they really want (and don’t assume it’s the money)
There’s been much written and said about Radiohead’s decision to let punters name their price when downloading their new In rainbows album. While some of this heat and noise as been quite sensible, much has been predictable tripe about how stupid and naive the band has been. There is some evidence, however, that the band [...]
Posted in Computing, Music, My writing, Research, Science, Writing Also tagged academia, Art, intellectual property, Music, open source, Research, Science, Writing Comments closed
How times change; how books change