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Audible magic
ArtMachine on Audible Magic, DRM, the music industry, and economic inequality. Nice work.
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Bamboo and Network Architecture
What with the current vogue for eco-metaphors when describing social networks and the living city, people have been talking about swarms, viruses, and ecosystems for a while. So the other day while wandering through the Mt. Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, I noticed this sign about how bamboo evades all attempts to eradicate it, and thought it…
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Consumption is [not] a Dirty Word
Matt Jones picks up on some other bloggers’ disgust and despair about the tired and dirty terms consumer and user, and wonders whether there might be a simple and adequate replacement: A colleague here at Nokia suggest a simple substitute for both words, after hearing me whine one-time-too-many about the usage of ‘consumer’. He suggested…
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New on The Wire Website
The Wire’s shows on Resonance FM are now archived for approximately one month on The Wire website. Plus: New additions to the MP3 gallery plus new articles from the Wire vault in the Archive Section: BBC Radiophonic Workshop by Mark Sinker (from issue 150, February 92) Exotic Audio Research by Rob Young (from issue 139,…
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Blogging for credit?
Sebastien Paquet wonders, along with Andrew Chen, Jill Walker, and Professor Bainbridge about the benefits of research blogs as opposed to formal academic publication. I don’t quite see why it’s an either/or situation – for me, a research blog is a thinking, talking, networking tool and a shared interest magnet; academic publishing is a more…
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OK, P2P is “piracy.” But so was the birth of Hollywood, radio, cable TV, and (yes) the music industry. By Lawrence Lessig, for Wired.
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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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Commodore 64 is alive!
Commodore 64 is alive!
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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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another research blog
Marcelo Vieta, a masters student at Simon Fraser University, has a research blog called Technology, Self & Community