Archive for April, 2006
Sunday, April 30th, 2006
[Note: this is a work-in-progress in support of doctoral research into the nature of online music subculture, in multiple parts. Expect abrasion, naïvete, half-truths and sticking my foot in my mouth at every turn. And feel free to comment, or toss me references! I know I've got a lot of ...
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Saturday, April 29th, 2006
I'm happy to trumpet my minimalist new theme: barecity. gone are the kludgy widgets (apologies for the buzzwords...but what other opportunities are there to put two words with "dg" in the middle of them right next to each other?) Have a good weekend... big post about online zine culture coming ...
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Saturday, April 29th, 2006
Now this is what I like to see. Sweet Thunder Tape Findings is a brilliant treasure trove of found home recordings. The blog has been live for just over a year, and contains recordings ranging from advertisements for a very low-fi 'baby new year rental company', a home recorded soap ...
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Friday, April 28th, 2006
Earlier this week, Skype and EMI announced a partnership to sell EMI's catalogue of music on Skype's new online store. Some commentators are speculating that this is intended to challenge Apple's dominance. Of course, if SkypEMIBay really wants to compete, they'll have to take on the iPod. What's a media ...
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Friday, April 28th, 2006
mp3.com (now there's a blast from the past!) reports that Cheap Trick and Allman Brothers Band are suing Sony over the amount paid to them for digital downloads of their songs through iTunes. It's a contractual disagreement centering around the amount paid to artists for each downloaded song. While Sony ...
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Thursday, April 27th, 2006
A company called Mobile Signal has launched a social networking service combining SMS and location based services. With simple text messages, mobile phone users can receive alerts when there are people in the same location who share their interests in sports, music, films, politics or even romance, reports mopocket.
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Thursday, April 27th, 2006
Marketwatch has a story about new developments with mobile music technology company Shazam.
Shazam launched their music-recognition service for mobile phones four years ago. The service identifies a song by matching its characteristics with those in their database of artists, albums and tracks, using algorithms that convert audio signals into ...
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
Internet Law expert Michael Geist has a report about Canadian artists taking a stand against the recording industry's efforts to sue music downloaders. The list of artists involved is basically a CanCon who's who of mediocre radio rock*, but their position statement is bold, and comes in the wake of ...
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
There has been a fair bit of crosstalk in the online identity management field lately. Online Dating Insider has the scoop on a pair of new standards (ClaimID and MicroID). Userplane is also rolling out a single ID system across all of its partner sites (whose ranks include Friendster, among ...
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
There's a good review of an article about cellcasts on Mopocket. In the light of the Forrester research into podcasting that's getting so much talk today, these modes of digital content delivery warrant some attention. Because hey, if podcasting is failing to impress, then cellcasting won't even be able to ...
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