Brain-eating Amoeba Records Edition
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Last June we told you about O’Reilly Media’s inaugural Tools of Change for Publishing conference (TOC), an event designed to expose publishers to a range of new technologies that are transforming their industry.
Planning for the second annual TOC conference is already underway, and O’Reilly has issued a call for participation.
Brick This! Edition
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Sometimes it’s really difficult to choose a topic for “That’s What I Like.” But not this time.
Yesterday, Rox & I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary, and there isn’t a thing on the gods’ green earth that I love more than her.
10th / 15th Anniversary Edition
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This week the long anticipated Amazon digital music store finally launched. Unlike recent efforts from the likes of Wal-Mart, Amazon’s DRM-free store could pose a substantial long-term challenge to iTunes. While that may sound like bad news for iTunes, it could prove to be a good thing for Apple.
Here’s why I think Amazon will pose a serious challenge to the iTunes music store:
Waiting for Battlestar Edition
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I’d been resisting doing a review of Spiral Frog for awhile. I’ve written about it negatively at least twice before, and so I want to say this up front: there is just no way for me to be objective about this site.
As a crazed lifelong music fan, I do not believe that there is any value for me in advertiser-supported free downloads. I’d much prefer to pay for a song once and play it wherever I wish, instead of wading through an ad, and not having any freedom with it. And besides, the advertising-supported model already exists: it’s a little thing called “radio,” where I can listen to music and stuff if I want to suffer through ads.
I realize that there is a difference: when you listen to the radio, you have absolutely no choice whatsoever as to what you are getting, and with Spiral Frog, you can choose the song. However, given all of the DRM restrictions, you still don’t “own” the track, and just like radio, you still have to do the equivalent of tuning in to Spiral Frog to listen to the track again.
The Needle Hits E Edition
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Full Disagellation Edition
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If you're lucky, you learn something every single godsdammed day of your life. In this case, I learned that the extra level of hilarity to that classic skit was that parrots weren't supposed to be indigenous to Norway. Bet that it had lovely plumage.
Expect a marked increase in product placement.
Unless, of course, you choose to control your data by not joining any of these sites. But, by now, you should know that the first rule of privacy on the web is that there is no privacy on the web. It's kind of like walking out of your house every morning.
Because sometimes you need inexpensive, build-it-yourself furniture in your virtual world.
And kids (plus more than a few adults) rejoice.
While there was much love for Billie Piper's Rose around the 'loper household that distributes the Dr. Who DVDs to the rest of the other households, we also kinda love Freema Agyeman's Martha Jones, who even made Torchwood kick up a notch. Also? Sigh.
Net neutrality now! What more proof do you need than the beginning of this official statement: "Cox allows the use of file-sharing and peer-to-peer services..." That word "allows" speaks volumes.
Still need to get around to reading this.
All we can ask (get it?) is that they don't somehow ruin the ease of dictionary.com, a site we use on what seems like at least a daily basis.
As a happily married heterosexual 'loper, I say "Whoo hoo!" and assure the world that the sanctity of my marriage is not affected in any way by this ruling.
We quote from the lead: “Give the customers what they want” was the message at Digital Book 2008, the annual conference sponsored by the International Digital Publishing Forum, held yesterday at the McGraw-Hill auditorium in Manhattan.
This week, CBS is all about the crazy new media deals.
Interesting, especially in light of other studies that suggest the numbers of legal downloads are rising. Of course, it doesn't help when some labels continue to make the process hard and cumbersome.
Wait, it gets better. They're called "crazy rasberry ants". The only known cure seems to be upgrading to Windows Vista -- they won't go near it.
Thank god that there is nothing else wrong with the country that a United States Senator can call for a massive investigation because the Patriots may have done his football teams wrong. Amazingly enough, he's not up for re-election, because this is just that shameless.
Awwwww, how cute! Cootchie-coo, Baby Supernova, cootchie-coo! Ma and Pa Supernova must be so proud of you, following in their footsteps at such a young age.
As rumored, but now there's actual film footage. It's nice to see Woody Allen using his powers for good instead of evil.
IO 9 posted a trailer for noted hack David E. Kelley's remake of "Life on Mars." Oh no. Oh gods no.
Wow, where to start? Good programming, not gaming the TiVo by starting and ending at quirky times, shorter hiatus periods, and so much more.
Obviously it didn't succeed.
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