It had to happen sooner or later. I’ve emailed my contacts at APRA to find their position on this. It will be fascinating to see how this evolves . . . . Sony & Playlouder private P2P
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Siva Vaidhyanathan on the recent Google Print u-turn.
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/siva/archives/001841.html
(more at . . . http://www.nyu.edu/classes/siva/archives/001849.html)
He rightly points out the difference between Google and public libraries . . . .
I wish more libraries would push their rights under copyright. But corporations do not have the same leeway as libraries. Libraries work for us. Corporations work for themselves.
As I said in my talk “The Googlization of Everything” to the American Library Association in June, Google’s plan would have sparked a copyight meltdown. P2P was nothing compared to the fallout from this. And Congress would certainly have ensured that such a meltdown would not have ended well for readers, libraries, or the Internet — none of which have rich lobbyists.
This makes me feel very very old.
Mobile phones meets myspace . . . . make your own media channel, share it, pour content into it from your camera phone, send GPS or triangulated position data from your phone cell.
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New Musical Interface
Check this amazing interface from yamaha called the Tenori-On.
It looks like a game of Go!
http://www.global.yamaha.com/design/tenori-on/swf/index.html
A search engine for the semantic web … nice ! Now we’re getting somewhere.
“Swoogle is a crawler-based indexing and retrieval system for the Semantic Web — RDF and OWL documents encoded in XML or N3. Swoogle extracts metadata for each discovered document, and computes relations among them. Discovered documents are also indexed by an information retrieval system which can use either character N-Gram or URIrefs as keywords to find relevant documents and to compute the similarity among a set of documents. One of the interesting properties we compute is ontology rank, a measure of the importance of a Semantic Web document.”
Swoogle is at http://swoogle.umbc.edu/
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A new DASE . . .
Yes . . . someone has finally done what DASE did 5 years ago.
Its called Ninjam.
Its cross platform and uses Ogg Vobis for compression and does recording live too.
Its a classic case of a failing business model and cultural elitism working hand in hand . . . . more interesting though is that the BBC is leading the action against these forces. Bring it on.
As the BBC prepares to announce the tremendous success of its free Beethoven downloads, the Independent reports that classical labels are less than rhapsodic:
This week the BBC will announce there have been more than a million downloads of the symphonies during the month-long scheme. But the initiative has infuriated the bosses of leading classical record companies who argue the offer undermines the value of music and that any further offers would be unfair competition.
The BBC made all nine of the Beethoven symphonies available for free download, with commentary, as part of their Beethoven Experience.
Read more.
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Negativland
Negativland are interviewed, and, not surprisingly have interesting things to say.
In the end, we came up with a sampling license that was saying, in effect, “You can reuse bits and pieces of our work for profit. You can sell it. But we’d like it if you mention where your sources come from.” And the only exception to this is that advertising can’t use it. It’s okay for anyone to use anything, except in advertising, because we don’t consider advertising to be free speech. It’s paid speech. And as artful as advertising can be, it is not art.
This is fascinating . . . place-shifting your TV watching.
Get your mate in Sydney to send the live cricket to your cricket-starved friends in Tokyo.
But that’s just the start.
This is one of the most amazing things I’ve seen (today) . . . . a functioning computer made of cardboard . . . and a USB CD cover . . . very cool art projects.
Check out Matthew Falla.