Archive for the ‘internet’ Category

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 ...

Northern Voice 2008 Day Two - accreted notes

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

13:30-14:10 Alan Levine. cogdogblog. voicethread. the internet is really big. Lost in Vancouver really hilar cinderella story told through PPT. http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools jumpcut=imovie in a web browser googlemaps api with Flickr, blabberize.com --------- 14:15-15:00 - Kris Krüg and Alex Waterhouse Hayward. "The Other Side of Two Dimensions" lots of pictures. thinking in 3D is what we do with digital photography and ...

Torrent Tracking on Open Networks 101

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Today is Northern Voice (I'm presenting tomorrow, but today is the unconference, most of which I hope to catch!), but right now I'm riveted to my laptop (poring over comments about torrent tracking) before I head out to UBC. Really good back n forth over at Nicholas Weaver's Random Thoughts ...

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 ...

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 ...

Single Sign-On and Content Aggregation: a Preliminary Analysis of their Potential in Facilitating Progressive Social Change

Monday, December 17th, 2007

What is the relation between the technology of single sign-on and community mobilization? There are two approaches to - or models for - the twin issues of convenience and security in our current era of mass content browsing: (1) single sign-on (OpenID, MicroID) and (2) content aggregation (Jaiku, Pageflakes, Readr). Both ...

AOIR Music and Sound Panel - Oct 18, 2007

Friday, October 26th, 2007

This update is running quite late, but is still valuable, I think, in attempting to sustain the dialogue which was unfortunately given too short an interval at our panel on Music and Sound at the AOIR conference last week. As well, I particularly need to move among the "diaspora" of ...

Technical Micropolitics and Musical Amateurs

Friday, October 19th, 2007

I presented at AOIR today as part of a panel on Music and Sound. Here's the PDF of my talk, complete with notes. I did this with an extreme headache, and a growing sense that I need to, as my friend and colleague Flo articulated it the other day, "coccoon" myself ...

4S, Montreal

Friday, October 12th, 2007

I'm blogging this from the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Montréal. We (Roy Bendor, Jack Post, Peter-Paul Verbeek and I) just completed our panel on Bruno Latour ("Translating Latour") and I'm now in a very interesting panel about "Problematizing Technological Appropriation". My first impression is that ...

Rainbow Connections - or, It’s Beginning To And Back Again

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

25 minutes early, my Radiohead download activation code is emailed to me. Ten years ago, I bought my first Radiohead CD (OK Computer). OK Computer comprised a significant portion of the soundtrack for a prolonged and significant breakup I was going through at the time, one ending a 7 year relationship ...