It’s about time that sexuality got centralized. This is the place to go if you or someone you know discovers their sexuality missing. This is also the place to plug “critical gaps in sexuality research and policy, including original articles, theoretical essays, methodological critiques, and roundtables.” The roundtables sound kinky. …
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Blogcritical Nuptials
Our very own Blogcritics Andrew Ian “Marty” Dodge and Sasha Castell got married yesterday afternoon. The snow was cold, their hearts were warm – note the action photos! May their lives blend as well as does their blog! Congrats!
Read More »Peering Into P2P Future: A Haven in the Netherlands?
A new company, “The Honest Thief,” opens for P2P biz this spring in the Netherlands where the courts have smiled at P2P: The recording industry has succeeded in dismantling services like Napster and Aimster by taking legal action in the United States. But The Honest Thief, whose Web site went …
Read More »Emerging Correlation Between Digital Attacks And Physical
There seems to be a direct relationship between online and offline attacks.
Read More »P2P Sematary
Napster has been buried in the “Pet Sematary” and is now coming back to walk the earth once again. Does Stephenen King own stock? Controversial song swapping site Napster, the former nemesis of the music industry, is set to relaunch before the end of the year with whizzkid founder Shawn …
Read More »Grammy Notes – Part 2
It was magic, then I fell asleep and dreamed beautiful rock 'n' roll dreams where no one dies or grows old and the energy never fades....
Read More »Grammy Notes – Part 1
I don’t believe I have ever sat through an entire Grammy show before, and for the most part I enjoyed it. The recording industry may be stuck in quicksand from which it will not escape alive and unaltered, but the state of MUSIC is as strong as ever. Great music …
Read More »Same Money – Fewer Fumes
The NY Daily News does a brutal breakdown of a hypothetical band’s financials. A member of a quartet that goes gold (500K units) makes about the same as a NYC sanitation worker: Because they’ve got buzz, the band gets a 15% royalty rate, a few points above the usual amount …
Read More »Trouble for Sonic Foundry
Glenn Reynolds reports that Sonic Foundry, maker Acid music creation software and lots of other cool stuff, is in financial trouble: Well, lots of companies are, these days, but they have terrific products in their Acid music software (I did the music for my wife’s documentary, largely using Acid Pro …
Read More »More on Cleveland Imam Terror Connection
Yesterday we reported that the imam of Cleveland, Fawaz Damra, was unnamed “co-conspirator one” in the federal indictment against University of South Florida engineering professor Sami Amin Al-Arian, and that at least one local supporter claimed the Palestinian community in Cleveland saw “nothing wrong” with the imam’s calls to murder …
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