Wired Editor in Chief and Author of The Long Tail, Chris Anderson has a new start-up called BookTour. It’s a 2.0-enabled site designed to connect authors, readers, and publishing industry types. The hype copy reads,“In just a few minutes any author can create a page showcasing their biography, books, and upcoming engagements. Listing new events [...]
Forget about the iPhone G3, this year’s gadget of the year is what I like to call the ‘scratchula‘. Not only does it’s metallic chrome flat surface flip burgers (or veggie burgers) like a normal spatula, it also has jagged sides for scratching and scraping the grill AND a lil’ slot for popping the [...]
This thing seems quite robust and it works on every social network out there apparently.
The think tank at Nemo Design
A couple of weeks ago I received an email from the International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI). They asked me to remove a music file (MP3) of ‘Silence’ a track from Portishead. Under the rules of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the IFPI has every right to ask me [...]
Eric Castro’s iSlsk new file sharing application for the iPhone has already been downloaded over 41,000 times, much to his surprise, allowing owners of jailbroken iPhones and iPod Touches to search and download songs from the Soulseek file sharing network. From The Listening Post
Listening Post: Are you concerned about the copyright implications?
Eric Castro: I guess [...]
The copyright police are working 24/7 by the look of it. I have a personal Brightcove account which I admit has been laying dormant for some time. It appears the Brightcove people have flagged my videos up there as suspect. The first two, you will note, are by Menomena and Boy Eats Drum Machine - [...]
Start crafting beats now. Fire up the Demo.
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Portland bands have to pay a third party, Sonicbids, to apply for a slot at this year’s MusicFestNW [this may have been the case last year too.] You’d think after the debacle with the CMJ conference where folks paid Sonicbids to enter the lottery and apparently no one from CMJ bothered to listen to the [...]