Radio is still a relevant technology, and will probably remain relevant for a long period of time. This is a simplistic article, and it talks about music and image being inseperatable, and goes on about the Music Industry only. It assumes that the only purpose of the radio is to play records, and that information can't be put on the radio. (Of course, it's written by MSNBC, so what do you expect).
Community Radio, on the other hand, is extremely important, since it serves to tie the community together and to play music and ideas not normally heard by the mainstream media. Similarly Campus-based Community Radio stations in Canada also live by this mandate. (College Stations to the US are also like this to a much, MUCH lesser degree.)
What's really interesting is what CMJ was going on about for their yearly conference about there being a job in "the business" when you graduate at their yearly conference for Music Directors at Campus station. It seems that the only thing that will die with radio is the radio promoters, since stations will just use file sharing to get the tracks they need anyway, top 40 or not, since they already pay the RIAA their tax.
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So, this is what happens when you go on every TV station in the world and talk about flying saucers!!!
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Campus Radio Stations are just as easily targeted to payola as anyone else (both in Canada and the US). What's worse is that Campus Stations subscribe to the Campus Music Journal's New Music Report, which is a Music Industry Magazine. This is where the whole formula behind "college first, corporate next" comes from, especially when it comes to alternative rock (largely in part by the success of Nirvana).
Seeing that I currently work at a small Campus Station in Canada, I can tell you the major differences between campus radio North of the border is that revenues of these stations are traditionally much less, and there isn't a station that is really much interest to CMJ. CMJ has a rating system for stations, where 1 is the LPFM college stations and 5 stations are the stations found at large college stations in the US. The largest stations in Canada are still only a 4 and the average campus station in Canada is a 2.
The Canadian Music Industry (If you can call it that, usually US success has to be obtained before anything else happens) has its own journals to determine what should be played, and payola happens here too. For example, to play and chart the latest Strokes CD (Which I thought sucked!) they sent us a ton of promo stuff to try and woo us and claimed to be my friend. The Strokes did get airplay because someone liked them, but all the extra crap wasn't necessary.
Of course, if you don't believe me about how the industry is invading everything but the pirate radio stations out on the fringe, check out A Rancid Amoeba's website and read both "Some of your friends are already this fucked" and "Bubba: The College Radio Music Director Webzine".
Radio in the US doesn't completely suck though. I heard that the Pacifica Network has recently solved some of their board troubles and should be back to bring good radio to the US. Also, I should also point out that CBC in Canada is government owned and rarely bends to the Music Industry rules. I recommend checking out 120seconds.com and CBC Radio 3.
Damn default button. Anyway, this reminds me of project where I was in a group that had to demo of some user interface for a UI class.
Anyway, after the demo, the instructor was expecting a working program and kept asking questions like "What Database?" and "How did you login?" The truth was, since we thought it was a UI demo, not a product demo, we cheated and hard coded the thing to do what we wanted it to. We should have done what the other groups did and just stuck with Screenshots instead of trying to show something working.
It often puzzles me why there have been so many "Please Die" postings on Slashdot. You would think that someone that views some of the people who post on Slashdot as "adolescents who are looking for acceptance" as someone valid enough to write about. Perhaps it is because they want to reply to their comments, but want to look mature about it. That could be why there are these innane articles about how if we are rude, or obnoxious, our rights will be taken away..
News Flash: They won't.
We have the right to boo people off stages, to say when something totally sucks. It's not our fault if someone doesn't get this fact. I imagine that the user who wrote "Please Die" actually was just sick of hearing the incessant whining and Wired-esque writing that occurs so often on Slashdot.
So, if we lose the right to say "Please Shut the hell up", then what is the point. If you didn't want to hear feedback, don't read the Slashdot postings, but saying comments like "Please Die" is NOT an abuse of freedom.
This is a textbook for one of my courses as well. It is a good textbook. But I agree that the textbook questions are really badly worded and written. (I've spent many a night so far scratching my head at what they are asking) I think it's the only reason I am passing the course right now, I know that the person teaching the course is no help whatsoever... I think it would be a good thing if the book came with the LogicWorks software and if the company that made LogicWorks ported it to Linux. That would be a good thing.
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Radio is still a relevant technology, and will probably remain relevant for a long period of time. This is a simplistic article, and it talks about music and image being inseperatable, and goes on about the Music Industry only. It assumes that the only purpose of the radio is to play records, and that information can't be put on the radio. (Of course, it's written by MSNBC, so what do you expect).
Community Radio, on the other hand, is extremely important, since it serves to tie the community together and to play music and ideas not normally heard by the mainstream media. Similarly Campus-based Community Radio stations in Canada also live by this mandate. (College Stations to the US are also like this to a much, MUCH lesser degree.)
What's really interesting is what CMJ was going on about for their yearly conference about there being a job in "the business" when you graduate at their yearly conference for Music Directors at Campus station. It seems that the only thing that will die with radio is the radio promoters, since stations will just use file sharing to get the tracks they need anyway, top 40 or not, since they already pay the RIAA their tax.
So this is how he's making money these days.
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So, this is what happens when you go on every TV station in the world and talk about flying saucers!!!
Campus Radio Stations are just as easily targeted to payola as anyone else (both in Canada and the US). What's worse is that Campus Stations subscribe to the Campus Music Journal's New Music Report, which is a Music Industry Magazine. This is where the whole formula behind "college first, corporate next" comes from, especially when it comes to alternative rock (largely in part by the success of Nirvana).
Seeing that I currently work at a small Campus Station in Canada, I can tell you the major differences between campus radio North of the border is that revenues of these stations are traditionally much less, and there isn't a station that is really much interest to CMJ. CMJ has a rating system for stations, where 1 is the LPFM college stations and 5 stations are the stations found at large college stations in the US. The largest stations in Canada are still only a 4 and the average campus station in Canada is a 2.
The Canadian Music Industry (If you can call it that, usually US success has to be obtained before anything else happens) has its own journals to determine what should be played, and payola happens here too. For example, to play and chart the latest Strokes CD (Which I thought sucked!) they sent us a ton of promo stuff to try and woo us and claimed to be my friend. The Strokes did get airplay because someone liked them, but all the extra crap wasn't necessary.
Of course, if you don't believe me about how the industry is invading everything but the pirate radio stations out on the fringe, check out A Rancid Amoeba's website and read both "Some of your friends are already this fucked" and "Bubba: The College Radio Music Director Webzine".
Radio in the US doesn't completely suck though. I heard that the Pacifica Network has recently solved some of their board troubles and should be back to bring good radio to the US. Also, I should also point out that CBC in Canada is government owned and rarely bends to the Music Industry rules. I recommend checking out 120seconds.com and CBC Radio 3.
Damn default button. Anyway, this reminds me of project where I was in a group that had to demo of some user interface for a UI class.
Anyway, after the demo, the instructor was expecting a working program and kept asking questions like "What Database?" and "How did you login?" The truth was, since we thought it was a UI demo, not a product demo, we cheated and hard coded the thing to do what we wanted it to. We should have done what the other groups did and just stuck with Screenshots instead of trying to show something working.
It often puzzles me why there have been so many "Please Die" postings on Slashdot. You would think that someone that views some of the people who post on Slashdot as "adolescents who are looking for acceptance" as someone valid enough to write about. Perhaps it is because they want to reply to their comments, but want to look mature about it. That could be why there are these innane articles about how if we are rude, or obnoxious, our rights will be taken away..
News Flash: They won't.
We have the right to boo people off stages, to say when something totally sucks. It's not our fault if someone doesn't get this fact. I imagine that the user who wrote "Please Die" actually was just sick of hearing the incessant whining and Wired-esque writing that occurs so often on Slashdot.
So, if we lose the right to say "Please Shut the hell up", then what is the point. If you didn't want to hear feedback, don't read the Slashdot postings, but saying comments like "Please Die" is NOT an abuse of freedom.
This is a textbook for one of my courses as well. It is a good textbook. But I agree that the textbook questions are really badly worded and written. (I've spent many a night so far scratching my head at what they are asking) I think it's the only reason I am passing the course right now, I know that the person teaching the course is no help whatsoever... I think it would be a good thing if the book came with the LogicWorks software and if the company that made LogicWorks ported it to Linux. That would be a good thing.