the station I do time on spends AU$100000 a year to keep ourselves running. Our studios are run down (even though they're fairly new), and we can never get anyone to fix anything because we have no staff except for an office co-ordinator 3 days a week.
It's extremely costly to get off the ground, but even more costly to keep going. We would love to have spare parts handy, but we don't even have spare microphones at the moment. And we'd love to have a 5 day a week staff member, or two.
Good volunteers are also vital if you have no money. Unfortunately, we're stuck with a lot of people who don't want to do anything more than present their one hour show a week and go home.:(
some comments seem to suggest that it's a bit lame that the university is doing this to get the RIAA off their backs. my response is, it's perfectly reasonable. I work in a library. We could say, sure, copy and download what you like, but be aware of your copyright responsibilities, and we'd get laughed at. Therefore, the library has to make decisions to ensure that we are not held responsible for someone else's mistakes. responsibility for copyright compliance generally lies with libraries, archives, and other similar bodies. The university is just acting to ensure that someone doesn't bring down a massive suit because some dweeb decided to download Britney's new album. Yes, the administation is responsible for that.
Besides, who really needs that much online access. I got through university on dialup.
And thinking ahead, would you show up at work and download several gigs a day on Kaazaa?
Either everybody switches to a new model, or nobody does. I don't believe there can be any in between.
If information online is to be recognised as having scholarly worth, it must be made permanently available. I'm sick of checking over references for my thesis, and finding that half the ejournals have moved or disappeared. This is not creating credibility for a new model of distrubution.
Tenure review committees need to acknowledge the move to online publishing, and recognise it more fully before researchers will embrace it.
If everybody switches to online, someone has to make sure that that information will always be available - in print AS WELL AS electronic. Not everyone has the Internet still. Print is still vital to a large body of researchers, and the availability of print may dissuade concerns that some researchers have about publishing in a new forum.
Lastly, they need to pay careful attention to indexing, because databases are where most people find information, and where most tenure review committees get their list of approved publication journals from.
It could work, but it really does require a massive committment on behalf of the academic community.
the private shouldn't become public. While it would be good to see my hubby's BGLs, I don't think he'd want his boss to see. It's only his employer's concern if stress is raising his BGL (which it invariably does).
All ambulances carry testing kits. Most take less than five seconds these days. I don't see the point of a tattoo. What, are we going to go around branding everyone who has a medical condition?
Just as bad are those chips you can get that catalogue every ailment you've ever had. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I wouldn't want that information falling into the wrong hands, and I doubt that a microchip is going to be of much use if I fall ill in a jungle somewhere.
been there, done that. Perth to Melbourne in 3.5 days, taking into account sleeping at night and such. You'd be nuts to go any faster, it's too hot along the Nullabor.
JJJ is rubbish. complete and utter rubbish. The DJ's are just as mindless as any other, they don't know anything about the music they're playing. Nicole Fossati for example, who hosts the afternoon program used to be a host on SBS's Alchemy. I now hear her talking about how much she loves indie music. Yeah. right. I'm sure, love.
The days of JJJ playing indie demos has long gone too.
Why not try SER, RRR, PBS, RTR or 2RRR (note, 2RRR's not streamed)
I notice that you're a fellow Curtin student, you might want to check out 100.1 fm I could never pick it up at home (joondalup) but could occasionally from curtin campus.
academic used to be respected, and decently funded. now, academics are doing more administration work than teaching or research, they're forced into co-operative arrangements with corporations to get funding, and they're now getting harassed by students 24 hours a day (thanks, email).
satisfaction is slowly slipping away. there are plenty of research opportunities in the corporate world. don't be lulled into the idea of a world where people listen to and respect your ideas. they'll more than likely just steal them.
they charge several hundred dollars to play a bunch of crappy old 80's songs, with a bit of crossfade. so much talent, not.
i'm dj'ing my own wedding. literally. instead of a first dance, my groom and i will be playing records for the guests. how this will work with dinner, i'm not sure.
I haven't even begun to cover the fact that a DJ is also required to understand, respond to, and influence the vibe of an evening.
amen to that. last night i went to a dj evening where the people were dancing for a half hour, one bad cross fade and they were all off the floor. ouch. it's a very difficult job.
i tend to treat programs that I do on radio more like a dj'ing session. i have a lot more equipment in the studio than i would be able to have in a club, and the stuff i play you can't really dance to anyway.
if you looked around i think you'd find a lot of people that do this.
anonymity/confidentiality in questionnaires does NOT mean that the person conducting the survey doesn't know who you are.
It means that you will not be identifiable in the results, and any identifying information about you gathered by the questionnaire will be kept separate from the coded results.
I am conducting a questionnaire at the moment for my thesis. I have conducted specific people to return the questionnaire, and I only know who they are if they choose to tell me what their email address is (if they want to know the results). Otherwise, I have no idea who they are, although I am certain that they come from my original email sample.
If you are ever concerned about your confidentiality, ask to see their ethics approval (if it is an academic study) or feel free to give feedback to the person conducting the survey and let them know where you are concerned.
If they were super-profitable, don't you think everyone would be doing it?
ahh, last time I checked, everyone was. I know about 20 people that run record labels. They don't make mega-bucks, but they do break even on their releases.
so you think only 10% of releases make money? many, many indie releases make money. They're not from labels that are members of the RIAA so they don't get counted. They probably use the money that they didn't have to pay to join the RIAA on better recording studios next time around!
I listen to stations like RTR FM, my station 2RRR.
Our commercial stations are as bad as everywhere else.
While at work I occasionally tune into KCRW. NPR stuff is quite good, we don't have the core funding in Australia to do something similar, although some stations do carry NPR programs.
until they've been in place for at least a month and EVERYONE'S comfortable with using them. That way you can still tinker with things and learn how to use it without bringing the entire company's operations to a screaming halt.
It's a standard training thing -
get someone to show them how it's done give people a lot of hands on experience give people time to think of questions
Introducing new technology in any department encounters these hurdles. this is no different from teachers learning a new class management system, or bringing in a new version of MS Office. the barriers are still the same.
my partner is buying a new computer from a local reseller today. he didn't trust me to put it together for him.:)
At any rate, it turned out to be very cheap and he specified every part that he wanted, no thrown in crap and we are re-using some parts out of the old machine too.
I built a computer last year. I got the whole shebang for $35. I got a Pentium III 450mhz, CD-RW, 20gb HD, modem, etc etc. The secret? Dad works for a computer company. All the parts were refurbished, and being discarded. This happens at all the big companies. If you know anyone with access to the spare parts basement, you're set.
System is a little wonky from time to time (so I don't do anything super essential on it) but it works pretty well for photoshop and stuff.
I host a traditional radio program on community radio that I also make available for download from my website.
My station pays all of the appropriate licensing fees for regular broadcast, online licensing costs are still in dispute.
What I want to know is - I assume that by hosting my website in the US I come under RIAA rulings. So if I play music that is not from a label covered by the RIAA, do I have to pay?
If I just play production music (music cleared for general broadcast) is that ok?
What sites should I visit to find out more, because no doubt there are probably lots of non-US citizens hosting sites in the US who don't have the facts either.
wayback is new? if you have been on the net for any time at all you would know that the wayback project was started many years before your website. They have been capturing this data for at least the last five years now.
you don't lose control of your copyright because wayback has a copy. they have a copy made under fair use for research purposes, which is how libraries can copy vasts amounts of work for college courses and research.
many of you sound like you've never had to sit an exam in a foreign language (with several pages of written composition) or do a maths exam where you had to show all your working.
the point is to show that you understand structure, sequencing, and that you TRULY understand how things work without debuggers.
FWIW, when i was in school, we had to do everything on paper before we could even go near the computer.
you're talking serious dollars to live in paddington. typical to only go after the rich. surely they could have offered the trial to those who live in areas not reached by cable or ADSL technology, to show them what opportunities lie ahead?
those living in Penrith or on the central coast, perhaps?? what's to bet people living in those areas won't get much attention at all.
obviously you've never been in search of a book that is out of print. my partner has thousands of books, most of them are editions that have been out of print for 50-100 years or more.
publishers will never bring these books back into print. it's quite sad. in the meantime, old and crumbling is the only condition you can find them in.
1. electricals in the bathroom are a VERY BAD idea. steam, water and electricity do not match. not even if you go wireless. stop now, and buy some books for the 'reading room'.
2. it is extremely bad feng shui, not to mention bad taste, to have computer stuff in the bedroom. you shouldn't even have a TV in there.
3. have you checked how much wattage your little apartment can handle? sounds like serious overload to me.
my fiancee has an extremely large number of books. we put them all in one room and shut the door. i have two computers, one is in storage so we actually have somewhere to eat dinner.
it's all about compromise!
it's not about blogging, but freelancing
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I see this class as being more about exploring alternative avenues for freelancing then actually being about 'blogging' as a form of journalism.
There is a decreasing number of jobs available full time on newspapers and in television as more media companies merge and cut staff, especially in rural areas.
Hence, a need for journalists to become their own employer, and to create freelance opportunities.
Journalists are also traditionally slow to adopt new technology, and have been particularly apprehensive about the Internet. The blogging class serves two purposes, to give them ideas, and also to show them ways to evaluate Internet information and use new technology.
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the station I do time on spends AU$100000 a year to keep ourselves running. Our studios are run down (even though they're fairly new), and we can never get anyone to fix anything because we have no staff except for an office co-ordinator 3 days a week.
:(
It's extremely costly to get off the ground, but even more costly to keep going. We would love to have spare parts handy, but we don't even have spare microphones at the moment. And we'd love to have a 5 day a week staff member, or two.
Good volunteers are also vital if you have no money. Unfortunately, we're stuck with a lot of people who don't want to do anything more than present their one hour show a week and go home.
some comments seem to suggest that it's a bit lame that the university is doing this to get the RIAA off their backs. my response is, it's perfectly reasonable. I work in a library. We could say, sure, copy and download what you like, but be aware of your copyright responsibilities, and we'd get laughed at. Therefore, the library has to make decisions to ensure that we are not held responsible for someone else's mistakes. responsibility for copyright compliance generally lies with libraries, archives, and other similar bodies. The university is just acting to ensure that someone doesn't bring down a massive suit because some dweeb decided to download Britney's new album. Yes, the administation is responsible for that.
Besides, who really needs that much online access. I got through university on dialup.
And thinking ahead, would you show up at work and download several gigs a day on Kaazaa?
Either everybody switches to a new model, or nobody does. I don't believe there can be any in between.
If information online is to be recognised as having scholarly worth, it must be made permanently available. I'm sick of checking over references for my thesis, and finding that half the ejournals have moved or disappeared. This is not creating credibility for a new model of distrubution.
Tenure review committees need to acknowledge the move to online publishing, and recognise it more fully before researchers will embrace it.
If everybody switches to online, someone has to make sure that that information will always be available - in print AS WELL AS electronic. Not everyone has the Internet still. Print is still vital to a large body of researchers, and the availability of print may dissuade concerns that some researchers have about publishing in a new forum.
Lastly, they need to pay careful attention to indexing, because databases are where most people find information, and where most tenure review committees get their list of approved publication journals from.
It could work, but it really does require a massive committment on behalf of the academic community.
the private shouldn't become public. While it would be good to see my hubby's BGLs, I don't think he'd want his boss to see. It's only his employer's concern if stress is raising his BGL (which it invariably does).
All ambulances carry testing kits. Most take less than five seconds these days. I don't see the point of a tattoo. What, are we going to go around branding everyone who has a medical condition?
Just as bad are those chips you can get that catalogue every ailment you've ever had. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I wouldn't want that information falling into the wrong hands, and I doubt that a microchip is going to be of much use if I fall ill in a jungle somewhere.
been there, done that. Perth to Melbourne in 3.5 days, taking into account sleeping at night and such. You'd be nuts to go any faster, it's too hot along the Nullabor.
The days of JJJ playing indie demos has long gone too.
Why not try SER, RRR, PBS, RTR or 2RRR (note, 2RRR's not streamed)
I notice that you're a fellow Curtin student, you might want to check out 100.1 fm I could never pick it up at home (joondalup) but could occasionally from curtin campus.
academic used to be respected, and decently funded. now, academics are doing more administration work than teaching or research, they're forced into co-operative arrangements with corporations to get funding, and they're now getting harassed by students 24 hours a day (thanks, email).
satisfaction is slowly slipping away. there are plenty of research opportunities in the corporate world. don't be lulled into the idea of a world where people listen to and respect your ideas. they'll more than likely just steal them.
tell that to the shitty 'dj's' on alt.wedding
they charge several hundred dollars to play a bunch of crappy old 80's songs, with a bit of crossfade. so much talent, not.
i'm dj'ing my own wedding. literally. instead of a first dance, my groom and i will be playing records for the guests. how this will work with dinner, i'm not sure.
I haven't even begun to cover the fact that a DJ is also required to understand, respond to, and influence the vibe of an evening.
amen to that. last night i went to a dj evening where the people were dancing for a half hour, one bad cross fade and they were all off the floor. ouch. it's a very difficult job.
so YOU'RE andy van?
i saw him on TV doing the whole fake scratching/turntabling thing, holding headphones up. extremely pathetic.
interesting that you compare to radio dj's.
i tend to treat programs that I do on radio more like a dj'ing session. i have a lot more equipment in the studio than i would be able to have in a club, and the stuff i play you can't really dance to anyway.
if you looked around i think you'd find a lot of people that do this.
anonymity/confidentiality in questionnaires does NOT mean that the person conducting the survey doesn't know who you are.
It means that you will not be identifiable in the results, and any identifying information about you gathered by the questionnaire will be kept separate from the coded results.
I am conducting a questionnaire at the moment for my thesis. I have conducted specific people to return the questionnaire, and I only know who they are if they choose to tell me what their email address is (if they want to know the results). Otherwise, I have no idea who they are, although I am certain that they come from my original email sample.
If you are ever concerned about your confidentiality, ask to see their ethics approval (if it is an academic study) or feel free to give feedback to the person conducting the survey and let them know where you are concerned.
losing the ability to use normal size bags is a downer.
i love my ibook because it's almost exactly the same size as an a4 piece of paper. that thing can go anywhere.
that is, if i actually bothered to get it insured so i could take it out of the house...
actually when i got my new mac a month ago, i was seriously pissed off at the lack of a manual.
my favourite manual was the one that came with MS-DOS 3.0. super chunky and comprehensive.
i see people reading computer manuals on the train all the time. so some people do appreciate them.
If they were super-profitable, don't you think everyone would be doing it?
ahh, last time I checked, everyone was. I know about 20 people that run record labels. They don't make mega-bucks, but they do break even on their releases.
so you think only 10% of releases make money? many, many indie releases make money. They're not from labels that are members of the RIAA so they don't get counted. They probably use the money that they didn't have to pay to join the RIAA on better recording studios next time around!
The complete playlist is here [woxy.com]
:)
playlist? need I say more?
I listen to stations like RTR FM, my station 2RRR.
Our commercial stations are as bad as everywhere else.
While at work I occasionally tune into KCRW. NPR stuff is quite good, we don't have the core funding in Australia to do something similar, although some stations do carry NPR programs.
until they've been in place for at least a month and EVERYONE'S comfortable with using them. That way you can still tinker with things and learn how to use it without bringing the entire company's operations to a screaming halt.
It's a standard training thing -
get someone to show them how it's done
give people a lot of hands on experience
give people time to think of questions
Introducing new technology in any department encounters these hurdles. this is no different from teachers learning a new class management system, or bringing in a new version of MS Office. the barriers are still the same.
my partner is buying a new computer from a local reseller today. he didn't trust me to put it together for him. :)
At any rate, it turned out to be very cheap and he specified every part that he wanted, no thrown in crap and we are re-using some parts out of the old machine too.
I built a computer last year. I got the whole shebang for $35. I got a Pentium III 450mhz, CD-RW, 20gb HD, modem, etc etc. The secret? Dad works for a computer company. All the parts were refurbished, and being discarded. This happens at all the big companies. If you know anyone with access to the spare parts basement, you're set.
System is a little wonky from time to time (so I don't do anything super essential on it) but it works pretty well for photoshop and stuff.
My station pays all of the appropriate licensing fees for regular broadcast, online licensing costs are still in dispute.
What I want to know is - I assume that by hosting my website in the US I come under RIAA rulings. So if I play music that is not from a label covered by the RIAA, do I have to pay?
If I just play production music (music cleared for general broadcast) is that ok?
What sites should I visit to find out more, because no doubt there are probably lots of non-US citizens hosting sites in the US who don't have the facts either.
wayback is new? if you have been on the net for any time at all you would know that the wayback project was started many years before your website. They have been capturing this data for at least the last five years now.
you don't lose control of your copyright because wayback has a copy. they have a copy made under fair use for research purposes, which is how libraries can copy vasts amounts of work for college courses and research.
but mainly i'm surprised there seems to be
so many slashdot readers in australia
What alternative is there?
many of you sound like you've never had to sit an exam in a foreign language (with several pages of written composition) or do a maths exam where you had to show all your working.
the point is to show that you understand structure, sequencing, and that you TRULY understand how things work without debuggers.
FWIW, when i was in school, we had to do everything on paper before we could even go near the computer.
you're talking serious dollars to live in paddington. typical to only go after the rich. surely they could have offered the trial to those who live in areas not reached by cable or ADSL technology, to show them what opportunities lie ahead?
those living in Penrith or on the central coast, perhaps?? what's to bet people living in those areas won't get much attention at all.
obviously you've never been in search of a book that is out of print. my partner has thousands of books, most of them are editions that have been out of print for 50-100 years or more.
publishers will never bring these books back into print. it's quite sad. in the meantime, old and crumbling is the only condition you can find them in.
some points.
1. electricals in the bathroom are a VERY BAD idea. steam, water and electricity do not match. not even if you go wireless. stop now, and buy some books for the 'reading room'.
2. it is extremely bad feng shui, not to mention bad taste, to have computer stuff in the bedroom. you shouldn't even have a TV in there.
3. have you checked how much wattage your little apartment can handle? sounds like serious overload to me.
my fiancee has an extremely large number of books. we put them all in one room and shut the door. i have two computers, one is in storage so we actually have somewhere to eat dinner.
it's all about compromise!
I see this class as being more about exploring alternative avenues for freelancing then actually being about 'blogging' as a form of journalism.
There is a decreasing number of jobs available full time on newspapers and in television as more media companies merge and cut staff, especially in rural areas.
Hence, a need for journalists to become their own employer, and to create freelance opportunities.
Journalists are also traditionally slow to adopt new technology, and have been particularly apprehensive about the Internet. The blogging class serves two purposes, to give them ideas, and also to show them ways to evaluate Internet information and use new technology.