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Les Comps

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Ta-da. I've finally submitted the field definitions for my Comprehensive exams. Here they are. Comments welcome; it helps. I'm writing the Philosophy of Technology exam in October, and the Theorizing Participatory Media exams in December February 2010, during the Olympics. 1. A History of the Philosophy of Science and Technology Western philosophical ...

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Making Money in Music: a Poll and a Crowdstorm

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

I've created a twitter poll (something I should be doing more regularly) asking a question of central importance to this blog, to my life, my creative pursuits, and something that's been on everybody's mind since the dawn of music (when wazzat?): how should musicians get paid? If I haven't given ...

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The end of free music?

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Last.fm (aka CBS) has finally thrown in the towel on free music. Well, I'm not going with them. It's not that Last.fm sucks; they still offer a great service, one that *might* be worth the subscription fee, even. But for those of us who are trying to give music away ...

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Room Enough For Everyone :: Canada On the Web

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

The Tyee is carrying Michael Geist's succinct report about the upcoming hearings at the CRTC over the future of Internet regulation in Canada. Most of these proposals don't make any sense - imposing Canadian content requirements on commercial Canadian websites is dubious at best - how would web content hosts ...

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Vote for Fair Copyright and Culture

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

I've been brewing up a post that I'd hoped to release today, reflecting on the experience of indie music promotion and how it's changed in a very short time (2-3 years), but I'm putting that on hold, as there are more important matters to address. Specifically, the fate of creators ...

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The Internet Is Filesharing :: On ISP Levies and Creators’ Rights to Remuneration in Canada

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

I was recently asked by the Songwriters' Association of Canada (SAC) to submit a briefing on why file sharing is inevitable, and why a levy system for ISPs makes sense. (The SAC is in the process of submitting a proposal along these lines to the Canadian government, in light of ...

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The PhD – the comprehensive exams

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

So I'm diving straight into my comprehensives now. I'm building lists and checking them twice (and more). While building these reading lists is in many ways a very personal journey, I've decided to blog about the process so that I might get feedback from unexpected locales, harnessing the "wisdom of ...

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