Here's a better way to share your music library over a local network: For Apple, enable Appletalk and make your music folder public. In Windows, share the folder with the network. Now, you can drag & drop. Or, just put a selected tune in your public folder if someone asks you for it. Faster than realtime.
[Microsoft's] Taylor gets frustrated when he hears, as the InformationWeek Research data shows, that customers think Linux is cheap and Windows expensive. "I want to jump out the window," he says.
This article succintly describes the current state of music. It's clear that the tools to create quality albums are easily attainable by anyone with a passion for music. Cheap hardware and software enable the bedroom rockers and djs to not only produce, but widely distribute their tunes. E-mail lists at shows help the band and their fans market music on a low budget. People network both online and through fellow music fans.
I lived in Athens Ga. a few years ago. Many of the bands had sold more records in Europe and Japan than the U.S. If an artist directly (and digitally) sells 10,000 copies of an album globally for $5 (not unreasonable at all), they are doing better than they would pushing plastic locally or regionally in the U.S.
Sites like Magnatunetake care of bandwidth and billing for a 50% cut. They offer fans the option to buy albums on a sliding scale (pay anywhere from $5-$20. Eight bucks is recommended.) And they leave the artist free to enter into any other contract they choose (they can press their own cds or have a cool label do it.) MP3 and Ogg are available for free. Purchasing the album (i.e. supporting an artist you really enjoy) entitles you to uncompressed.wav or aiff
Weedshare.com also has an interesting idea--they pay fans to distribute music. Unfortunately, they only offer.wmv at the time and they seem open for abuse. Still, how long will it be before musicians establish something like affiliate programs. Maybe if fan sites kick over enough paying customers, they get a little cut of the moola (a la Amazon) At the very least, they could support their music habit.
These are interesting and exciting times. Independent producers are the real winners and video is right around the corner thanks to Apple&friends. Now, if only I could convince my local cable monopoly to just keep their boring channels and instead offer me a 20mbps internet connection ; )
the detachable keyboard is kind of neat, but if I want to turn a notebook into a desktop, I'll attach a VGA monitor and use a seperate bluetooth keyboard and mouse. I'm sorry, but origami or no, Apple has IBM beat hands down in the elegant engineering dept.
you're right. our eyes are poorly designed optical devices. sony shoud look into it. notice that the picture is a model. also, realize MOST workersdon't have the luxury of windows and sunlight fo reading--they are inside. Now, post again.
Last night I was playing with Reason on my Powerbook. I had an Oxygen 8 MIDI controller plugged in to my USB port and I thought to myself "Damn, I sure wish I had a WIRELESS keyboard." Next day on/. -- wireless USB. Problem solved!
It seems like this technology could be adapted, as the parent says, for wireless audio streaming. I sure as hell would love to stream 192kbps MP3s from my laptop to stereo. Save myself the hassle of stringing RCA extension cables all over the room.
I get nearly all of my news from blogs and other news aggrergators. Eschaton and the Progressive Review will point me to articles of interest./. is also important in this regard. Of course these sites merely link to other publications. However, the context that they place articles and the accompanying comments are often more important than the articles themselves. There are few examples of journalists posting original work, but they do exist. Christopher Allbritton, a former AP reporter raised $10,000 for a trip to Iraq for original reporting on Back to Iraq. Calpundit has a post about the microjournalism efforts of science writer David Appell. In time, a market for independent journalists will emerge. A widespread plan for micropayments will help.
South Korea's Ohmynews(not in english yet) has thousands of contributers whose stories are ranked and polished by seasoned editors. The internet played an important role in electing their progressive president in the last election.
There is a future for independent original news on the web. For now, though, it will remain the province of armchair pundits who sift through dozens, or hundreds, of articles and put them in a context that Google news could never do (maybe with the purchase of Pyra Labs . . . ) They may have other jobs but if they are successful enough to elicit 10,000 people to contribute $5, they are on their way towards financial independence as well.
It is the power of the procreative urge that ensures there will always be more hungry mouths to feed than there is food to go around
Actually it is willful neglect and widespread ignorance that prevent the poor masses from being fed. Politicians (and the corporations they represent) institute policies that thwart efficient distribution of food and sublimely encourage overpopulation. Poor countries have exploding populations because having more children increases the likelihood that some of their offspring will survive the harsh conditions. Adequate medical access is a severe problem for 95% of the global population.
There is enough life support on the planet to support the entire population. The problem is we mismanage resources and stultify the education system. I agree that overpopulation is a serious problem but I think can be dealt with effectively through thoughtful analysis and widespread education.
the lesson learned is that whenever you produce n amount of goods, humanity produces n+1 people wanting those goods and squabling (ocassionally going to war) over how to obtain those goods
This is absurd on its face. Wars are not fought by people clamoring for goods. They are fought by well-moneyed interests pursuing oil, or defense contracts, or interest from massive loans, or reconstructionists. Armies do not mobilize over a deficit of PalmPilots or a lack of pr0n (well . ..maybe around here:p )
Educated Earthlings need not hoard. It is our responsibility to use our fortunate positions to develop saner solutions. War, in light of our considerable technological prowess, is insane.
If you found two people arguing over whether an MP3 player or a turntable was "better" -- or a turntable user saying that MP3 players were "annoying" due to the lack of an RPM control -- you would of course recognize this as nonsense.
I listen to a lot of electronic music. It seems like it would not be inconceivably difficult to include pitch control on MP3 players. So yes, that is kind of annoying.
I have no idea what your interests are, but The Progressive Review is a good place to start. Not exactly a blog but lots of depth on the site. Follow some links and you'll find some interesting blogs. Most of them have a set of links to other like-minded bloggers on their sidebars. True, there's a lot of crap but don't quit looking. Googling "blog" and some key words is also a good place to start.
A huge number of journalists are simply PR agents. I've been hoping to see greater depth with the advent of the internet but for the most part, just the same old fluff. Reporters should link to their sources for stories. Instead of saying "according to a report from xxxxxxx Institution," they should link to it. Provide the entire interview or text of a speech instead of just grabbing a quote
(often out of context) Most readers would probably just go with the story, but enterprising or inquisitive minds could see the WHOLE THING if they desired. This would enhance credibility enormously.
I don't find that it is all that dificult to find "accuracy on the Internet." Go to Google, run a few searches in tabs(tnx, safari) check out competing claims, and make your best judgement. Tell me, how do you judge accuracy in books. I generally go by the publisher, author, writing style, wealth of footnotes and a nice bibliography. The internet is not much different.
I doubt more than 25 million people currently craft the news agenda. In all likelihood, the number of people who control world policies is almost certainly less than 100,000. These are generally the people with gobs of money. How can you trust NBC when it is a subsidiary of GE (weapons, sattelites, power plants). CNN is a unit of AOL. ABC is part of the Disney empire. Granted, these institutions have broken many quality news items but what is left unsaid is truly staggering. They have a vested interest in controlling the future.
Widespread moblogging technology is still far off, but it's impossible to deny the impact of blogging on the world of journalism. I get news from the Progressive Review, Tom Tomorrow and Atrios' Eschaton. To round things off I go to right wing and libertarian blogs. And of course/. ; )
Don't forget, the record industry is getting hit on TWO fronts-production and distribution. As the prices for audio software and hardware falls (~$1500 for a starter studio rig), almost anyone can produce music if they know how or have a friend who does. With the internet, you have worldwide distribution (if you can get people to listen) Filtering mechanisms like blogs can be used to establish "music cooperatives." These cooperatives could actively promote music for AND raise money for contributing artists by selling records/songs directly. The record company's are the ultimate middlemen. They DO provide promotion services and front tour money. However,more often than not, this money comes out of the artist's royalty earnings. I trust the collective judgement of millions of musiclovers to sort the cream from the crap(to mix some metaphors) For artists', the best way to make money is consistently put on a great show and deliver music that defines a scene. The open source community should work on tools to further both the production, distribution, AND COMPENSATION aspects of music.
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Here's a better way to share your music library over a local network: For Apple, enable Appletalk and make your music folder public. In Windows, share the folder with the network. Now, you can drag & drop. Or, just put a selected tune in your public folder if someone asks you for it. Faster than realtime.
In Panther Mail, there is an action (from the little gear pulldown menu) called manage SMTP servers. Triggers an Applescript to delete unused servers
it's the other way around.
not quite yet, but look out for nooron
To which I reply, Go ahead.
even the main code was not certified from a security standpoint.
I lived in Athens Ga. a few years ago. Many of the bands had sold more records in Europe and Japan than the U.S. If an artist directly (and digitally) sells 10,000 copies of an album globally for $5 (not unreasonable at all), they are doing better than they would pushing plastic locally or regionally in the U.S.
Sites like Magnatunetake care of bandwidth and billing for a 50% cut. They offer fans the option to buy albums on a sliding scale (pay anywhere from $5-$20. Eight bucks is recommended.) And they leave the artist free to enter into any other contract they choose (they can press their own cds or have a cool label do it.) MP3 and Ogg are available for free. Purchasing the album (i.e. supporting an artist you really enjoy) entitles you to uncompressed .wav or aiff
Weedshare.com also has an interesting idea--they pay fans to distribute music. Unfortunately, they only offer .wmv at the time and they seem open for abuse. Still, how long will it be before musicians establish something like affiliate programs. Maybe if fan sites kick over enough paying customers, they get a little cut of the moola (a la Amazon) At the very least, they could support their music habit.
These are interesting and exciting times. Independent producers are the real winners and video is right around the corner thanks to Apple&friends. Now, if only I could convince my local cable monopoly to just keep their boring channels and instead offer me a 20mbps internet connection ; )
if you want to find good, new music check out epitonic.com enjoy
the detachable keyboard is kind of neat, but if I want to turn a notebook into a desktop, I'll attach a VGA monitor and use a seperate bluetooth keyboard and mouse. I'm sorry, but origami or no, Apple has IBM beat hands down in the elegant engineering dept.
you're right. our eyes are poorly designed optical devices. sony shoud look into it. notice that the picture is a model. also, realize MOST workersdon't have the luxury of windows and sunlight fo reading--they are inside. Now, post again.
It seems like this technology could be adapted, as the parent says, for wireless audio streaming. I sure as hell would love to stream 192kbps MP3s from my laptop to stereo. Save myself the hassle of stringing RCA extension cables all over the room.
More info? Read The Creature and you will understand.
The U.S debt will be the death of the nation.
South Korea's Ohmynews(not in english yet) has thousands of contributers whose stories are ranked and polished by seasoned editors. The internet played an important role in electing their progressive president in the last election.
There is a future for independent original news on the web. For now, though, it will remain the province of armchair pundits who sift through dozens, or hundreds, of articles and put them in a context that Google news could never do (maybe with the purchase of Pyra Labs . . . ) They may have other jobs but if they are successful enough to elicit 10,000 people to contribute $5, they are on their way towards financial independence as well.
Actually it is willful neglect and widespread ignorance that prevent the poor masses from being fed. Politicians (and the corporations they represent) institute policies that thwart efficient distribution of food and sublimely encourage overpopulation. Poor countries have exploding populations because having more children increases the likelihood that some of their offspring will survive the harsh conditions. Adequate medical access is a severe problem for 95% of the global population.
There is enough life support on the planet to support the entire population. The problem is we mismanage resources and stultify the education system. I agree that overpopulation is a serious problem but I think can be dealt with effectively through thoughtful analysis and widespread education.
the lesson learned is that whenever you produce n amount of goods, humanity produces n+1 people wanting those goods and squabling (ocassionally going to war) over how to obtain those goods
This is absurd on its face. Wars are not fought by people clamoring for goods. They are fought by well-moneyed interests pursuing oil, or defense contracts, or interest from massive loans, or reconstructionists. Armies do not mobilize over a deficit of PalmPilots or a lack of pr0n (well . . .maybe around here :p )
Educated Earthlings need not hoard. It is our responsibility to use our fortunate positions to develop saner solutions. War, in light of our considerable technological prowess, is insane.
We should use our knowledge for livingry, not weaponry
I listen to a lot of electronic music. It seems like it would not be inconceivably difficult to include pitch control on MP3 players. So yes, that is kind of annoying.
but around here the prostitues sure as hell ain't free!!
distributed power generation. let's work for that.
I have no idea what your interests are, but The Progressive Review is a good place to start. Not exactly a blog but lots of depth on the site. Follow some links and you'll find some interesting blogs. Most of them have a set of links to other like-minded bloggers on their sidebars. True, there's a lot of crap but don't quit looking. Googling "blog" and some key words is also a good place to start.
I don't find that it is all that dificult to find "accuracy on the Internet." Go to Google, run a few searches in tabs(tnx, safari) check out competing claims, and make your best judgement. Tell me, how do you judge accuracy in books. I generally go by the publisher, author, writing style, wealth of footnotes and a nice bibliography. The internet is not much different.
What? You're right-O'Reilly has no relevance in the technical world. Insecure? Sounds like projection
Widespread moblogging technology is still far off, but it's impossible to deny the impact of blogging on the world of journalism. I get news from the Progressive Review, Tom Tomorrow and Atrios' Eschaton. To round things off I go to right wing and libertarian blogs. And of course /. ; )
Interesting to note, South Korea has a citizen news networkThe key idea is establishing trust networks through filtering. Ultimately we will wind up with a more accurate system.
I wonder if it is feasible to encypt calls from caller to callee using some type of public key encryption?
Don't forget, the record industry is getting hit on TWO fronts-production and distribution. As the prices for audio software and hardware falls (~$1500 for a starter studio rig), almost anyone can produce music if they know how or have a friend who does. With the internet, you have worldwide distribution (if you can get people to listen) Filtering mechanisms like blogs can be used to establish "music cooperatives." These cooperatives could actively promote music for AND raise money for contributing artists by selling records/songs directly. The record company's are the ultimate middlemen. They DO provide promotion services and front tour money. However,more often than not, this money comes out of the artist's royalty earnings. I trust the collective judgement of millions of musiclovers to sort the cream from the crap(to mix some metaphors) For artists', the best way to make money is consistently put on a great show and deliver music that defines a scene. The open source community should work on tools to further both the production, distribution, AND COMPENSATION aspects of music.