Archive for May, 2006
Monday, May 29th, 2006
Eliot Van Buskirk has a piece in Wired today contemplating the future of devices for the mobile content and music industries: will we adopt a single device that "does everything" (music and communicating), or will we continue to use iPods for music and telephones for communicating? From the article, his ...
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Friday, May 26th, 2006
Digital Music News reports briefly on the growing profile of companies offering DIY web solutions to bands and artists building or expanding their digs online.
These sites simply bundle existing hosting and ecommerce offerings into a one-stop service centered around hosting, marketing, distributing and selling music independently online, which can otherwise ...
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Friday, May 26th, 2006
There's a story over at Marketwatch about how marrying couples are increasingly opting for iPods instead of DJs to provide music at their wedding receptions. The benefits would seem to include cost savings, and the ability to thoroughly plan and customize the reception playlist ahead of time. It also appears ...
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
So soon after my groaning yesterday about hoaxes, Beware of the Blog inadvertently shows me up by posting Part Three of its audio hoaxes series (this time about a phony sXe band called Jud Jud). Click around - they've got everything from an isolated Linda McCartney vocal track from a ...
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
The Economic Times of India reports that a company called Micro Technologies, Ltd. has developed something called "Micro LMS", or long messaging service, which enables users to send SMS messages as large as 800 kilobytes (normally SMS are limited to 160 kilobytes).
How this product differentiates itself from concatenated SMS (a ...
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Moconews has a post summarizing a panel discussion about mobile music business models at the Mobile Entertainment Market Conference today in London.
Apparently usability and multifunctionality are both touted as key to future success by at least several of the participants, likely reflecting company baggage that they brought with them ...
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Momus has written a good piece for Wired in which he discusses the implications of rapid media format changes for the preservation of the past. Drawing on Derrida and others, Momus argues that the act of archiving the past is a form of "destroying to preserve". In our selectivity, we ...
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Monday, May 22nd, 2006
Smart Mobs reports (complete with copied-and-pasted typographical errors) on the story in CNN today about "Internet Addiction". It's an interesting subject to revisit at this moment, seeing how the modalities of function of the internet have diversified in recent times (RSS, wikis, ecommerce, filesharing, even).
I've read the original scholarly article ...
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Monday, May 22nd, 2006
Information Week reports on a study by Strategy Analytics on mobile music downloading.
According to the study (which measured end user reactions to the mobile music store offerings of both Sprint and Verizon), users preferred Sprint's service in terms of ease-of-use and perceived network performance. But overall, both services were ...
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Saturday, May 20th, 2006
This art project (using a portable, foldable private telephone booth that people can take with them anywhere) is cute, but also pointed. The project points our attention toward our changing habits with (and by extension values about) private conversation in public space. It raises issues of individual rights to privacy ...
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