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April 30, 2008
Video Contest Asks: What Is Remix
Total Recut is a site that provides online resources and social networking opportunities for fans and creators of video recuts, remixes and mash-ups. They've announced a contest
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Posted by Rob at 05:25 PM
Podcasting Down
The Sydney Morning Herald took a look at the Cult of Podcast Celebrity and profiled pioneering podcaster Cameron Reilly: One Australian who is using podcasting to give himself - and his fellow podcasters - a voice is Cameron Reilly, who founded the Podcast Network - a stable of podcasts ranging from religion to martial arts. "I made
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Posted by Perry at 09:35 AM
April 29, 2008
Royalty Free Music Generation
Scott at Bitnotic sent us word about their new generative ambient music application, chill. The concept of generative music - popularized by Brian Eno - is that complex music can be created by setting relatively simple processes into motion. You can think of chill as a royalty-free music generator. It uses generative music processes to create new
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Posted by Bob at 05:52 PM
Clay Shirky On Why User-Generated Media Is Better Than Gilligan's
Author Clay Shirky gave a speech at the Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008, that touched on his idea of the social surplus - the vast quantity of people's time that is being freed up to do user-generated media, Wikipedia and other useful things as they move their attention from television to the Internet Along the
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Posted by Matt at 05:39 PM
Apple Announces iMac
Apple today updated iMac line with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors and the most powerful graphics ever available in an iMac. The iMac now includes faster processors with 6MB L2 cache and a faster 1066 MHz front-side bus across the entire line, and 2GB of memory standard in most models. The 24-inch iMac now
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Posted by Doug at 02:02 PM
40% of Music Purchases To Be Digital Downloads By
Digital music sales will represent 40% of all music purchased worldwide by 2012, according to the research firm In-Stat. Digital music downloads represented 10% of the total worldwide music market in 2007, up from 6% in 2006. Factors contributing to this growth include the global expansion of broadband, continued demand for single-track downloads, and expanding music
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Posted by Tom at 12:17 PM
Metallica Still Fiercely Independent, But Learning From Radiohead,
Rolling Stone has an interesting interview with Metallica's Lars Ulrich that touches on the state of Metal, the band's fight against Napster, how they are using digital music and trying to learn from Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails: You were one of the first artists to sue over copyright infringement and voice concerns over aspects of
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Posted by Gary at 08:18 AM
Adam Curry's Podcasting
Podcast pioneer and former MTV VJ Adam Curry shared this image of his podcasting setup on Flickr. This is his rig for recording Daily Source Code. It shows how you can get a professional podcast from a relatively modest setup. (It helps to have Curry's 20+ years of media experience, obviously!) I spy what looks to be
Posted by Bob at 08:02 AM
