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Art of the Mix
The Art of the Mix is a website dedicated to mix tapes, mixed cds and mp3 playlists. Am loving the titles, cover art (some NSFW), and taxonomy of the mixed tape.
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Participation, Collaboration, and Play
Two things caught my roving eye this afternoon: The UK government’s culture online initiative Culture Online is an innovative initiative to increase access to, and participation in, arts and culture. It brings together cultural organisations with cutting-edge technical providers to create projects that will delight adults and children of all ages and backgrounds. Culture Online…
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Everyday Americans as Content Producers
Via hypergene mediablog, a report from the Pew Internet and Everyday Life Project: 44% of Internet users have created content for the online world through building or posting to Web sites, creating blogs, and sharing files. 21% of Internet users say they have posted photographs to Web sites. 20% say they have allowed others to…
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Charles Leadbeater: Users, Innovation, and the ProAm Economy
Hot off my notebad, here’s my version of what transpired at Charles Leadbeater’s seminar at QUT today. Just the main points on the role of users in innovation and the emerging category of the ProAm which Leadbeater thinks is a growing force in the cultural economy. His approach has significant similarities to the standard cultural…
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Sleepy City: The Interview
I wanted to try something different from the usual formulaic “link+commentary” blog posts, so I decided to conduct a blog interview with the mysterious urban explorer behind the Sleepy City photography project and website. I was very pleased with the insights the interview generated, and I’ll certainly be doing more of them. Enjoy! Jean: First…
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The GarageBand Controversy
I am just about ready to move on from the GarageBand thing – it will be one of my case studies, but any more consecutive posts on the topic and this will turn into some sort of Apple fansite. And I don’t even have a Mac. However… It seems quite a lot of people didn’t…
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GarageBand: Usability vs. Hackability
I don’t have a Mac, so I haven’t used GarageBand yet, but I’ve been following its release and its take-up by users very closely. To hear the fruits of this explosion of creativity, visit one of the many online distribution channels for GarageBand recordings that have already begun to appear: MacJukebox, iCompositions, or MacJams. As…
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Musical Amateurism and Technological Change
Two articles that problematize the cultural values attached to the modernist producer/consumer dichotomy, especially with regard to musical amateurism. From Antoine Hennion (whose work is all too rarely available in English), Music industry and music lovers, beyond Benjamin: The return of the amateur: […] the amateur could easily be reinstated at the centre of the…
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Build it, and they will come
In quite a perceptive post about the relationship between network literacy, accessible production tools, and the mass amateurization of blogging, Adrian Miles looks forward to the mass amateurization of Vogging. Adrian basically reckons that mass vogging depends on an as-yet non-existent mass literacy which will follow the mass introduction of powerful, usable tools, and not…
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GarageBand: Creativity out of the Box
At Game Girl Advance, Sandford parodies the ilife suite by “announcing” the release of “attic author” (thanks to matt jones for the link): […]Apple is proud to announce an add-on package to our popular iLife ’04 suite of applications — including the easiest to use music playback and purchasing software available, iTunes, and the new,…