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VentureBlog contributor Naval Ravikant, inventor of the jelly, muses on the ubiquity of wireless computing at Dartmouth: Instant Messenger for voice will emerge – Just as ubiquitous wired connectivity lead from email (sporadic and asynchronous) to IM (always-on and synchronous), so ubiquitous wireless connectivity takes us from cellphones to a …
Read More »Culture and Society
“Can you hear me now?”
Bookofjoe discussed Skype and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) a few days ago here. I (and about 1000 of my closest friends) got this about SIP directly from Michael Robertson, former MP3.com guru, now Lindows maven: SIP is to telecom, what MP3 is to music biz. Hold on tight boys …
Read More »Todd Joins the Anti-RIAA Chorus
Just yesterday we mentioned an editorial in Billboard (of all places – very significant as the industry bible) by a top entertainment lawyer telling the RIAA to give up the campaign against file sharing and join the 21st century. Todd Rundgren puts it even more strongly in the Hollywood Reporter: …
Read More »Care and Feeding of CDs and DVDs
How well do you take care of your CDs and DVDs? I am pretty fanatical about it, figuring once it’s mine it’s mine and I don’t want to screw it up. I even have our 4-year-old pretty much down with the sickness: she knows to not touch the surface, to …
Read More »Blog Times
Very interesting study by blogger Darren at the Living Room on time-spent stats for blogs. Check it out: How long does the average blog reader stay on a blog on any given visit? I searched for the statistic on Google but couldn’t find it so I decided to do some …
Read More »Gnomoradio
This strikes me as a totally worthwhile endeavor, and I encourage your interest and participation: Hello Over the past several months, we have been planning and developing a project that allows artists to easily distribute their music freely on the Internet. The program produced by the Gnomoradio project will allow …
Read More »The MSNBC Files
Somewhat to my surprise, several Blogcritics and some readers have indicated they weren’t aware that I write for MSNBC.com. I am forever indebted to Jan Herman for bringing me in to the fold, and I miss his editorial expertise greatly – be sure to check out Jan’s great Straight Up …
Read More »It Was an Inside Job
A fascinating new study on the “Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities in the Movie Production and Distribution Process” by AT&T researchers find that: Unauthorized copying of movies is a major concern for the motion picture industry. While unauthorized copies of movies have been distributed via portable physical media for some time, …
Read More »“The music industry has chosen a few unfortunate people and decided to make examples of them by suing them for large amounts of money”
Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) was online yesterday in a live chat via Washingtonpost.com to talk about his efforts to rein in the recording industry’s legal war against people who share copyrighted material without permission: washingtonpost.com: Good morning Senator Coleman, thanks for joining us today. The war over online file swapping …
Read More »Consumer Remixable CD On the Way
I’m all for pretty much anything that puts more power and flexibility into the hands of consumers. If the recording industry continues to add value to its product, it may survive: FABOLOUS HITS THE STREETS NOVEMBER 4th WITH MORE STREET DREAMS PT. 2 THE MIXTAPE Groundbreaking ‘Mixable CD’ Format Lets …
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