Archive for the ‘music’ Category
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 ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
In other news, Prince totally sucks now.
Posted in file sharing, law, music, taste, video, youtube | 1 Comment »
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 ...
Posted in AOIR 8, P2P, SNS, conferences, critical constructivism, culture & society, fandom, file sharing, indie, internet, music, online communities, open source, political economy, social networks, taste, technology, theory | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
I'm back from Montréal, having had a good but curt time in la belle province. 4S (image of the plenary at R, more available here) was, to be honest, hit and miss; some panels were dull as television, and some others were painful to watch due to speaker-unpreparedness. Sometimes I ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
The news story I was interviewed for in the wake of the Jammie Thomas verdict has aired and is now up. It's unsurprisingly simple and straightforward, but surprisingly balanced. Thanks to Richard Smith for capturing and converting the thing.
Posted in P2P, file sharing, internet, law, music, technology, video | No Comments »
Friday, October 5th, 2007
I was interviewed this morning for Global National on the subject of P2P lawsuits by the RIAA. Every time there's some sensational story to be mined, the television media seem to jump. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
I tried to stay focused on the Canadian angle, making the points that ...
Posted in P2P, file sharing, indie, labels, law, music, policy, technology | 1 Comment »
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
I hope I haven't used this Roxy Music song as a post title before...
While assembling my upcoming conference papers, I've been twiddling with this blog on the side in lieu of regular updates (well, alright, I've also been focused on the dupobs release schedule - you can listen to ...
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Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Nice to be back in the swim of things. I just put a final report out the door on a research project that I'd been working on for 14 months. It was a difficult project - one that didn't always go as planned, that got intermittently sidelined by other events ...
Posted in SNS, babies, blogs, critical constructivism, culture & society, ethnography, events, mobile, music, online communities, personal life, social bookmarking, social networks, taste, teaching, technology, theory, wikia | No Comments »
