CBC Arts: Apple to give levy back to iPod owners
The levy still applies to cassette tapes and blank CDs, right?
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Journalism Gone "Glocal"
Open Source: Blog Archive: Hyperlocal Journalism
Some interesting ideas from the show, especially on social issues, the power of the local, connections between local and global spheres, changes in mainstream journalism.
"My Search is Bigger than Yours"
Yahoo Announces Total Size Count
Also here.
Bragging rights, information overload, needle in haystack.
Beer Riot and Sunday Opening
Sunday and evening hours: You can bank on it
Chicago — the town Billy Sunday couldn't shut down — always had a tough time keeping the Christian sabbath free of trade. An 1845 Chicago law prohibited taverns from opening on Sundays, but the ban was unpopular with Irish and German immigrants, according to the Encyclopedia of Chicago. When Mayor Levi Boone tried to enforce the law in 1855, it led to the Lager Beer Riot.
Well, there was more to the riot than the schedule issue, but it's interesting to see this take on it.
Respecter la jeunesse acadienne
La planète païenne
Texte très optimiste de Gérald Leblanc, artiste acadien qui nous a quitté récemment. Se lit dans ce texte l’optimisme de ceux qui comprennent la force et la beauté d’une génération en plein essor.
C’est ça, aussi, se prendre en main.
(Spoof) Ethnic-Sounding Filler
Comedy Central: Radio Billed The Radio Star:
strike fear into the hearts of the Brazilian rainforest musicians that have been blackmailing NPR to be their exclusive provider of ethnic-sounding filler music.
Brasil!
Fair and Balanced Education
Science vs. Norse Mythology
Interesting curriculum.
Podcasting and Music Rights
ABC News: Podcasting Spurs a Media ‘Land Grab’
The main insight in this piece, and the reason it was mentioned in a page about WordPress support for podcasting, is that podcasting can expand greatly if mechanisms for obtaining rights to music broadcasting are facilitated. Thing is, there might be wishful thinking involved as the recording industry has been very reluctant to see the long-term possibilities in changes to their practices.
Searching for Sound
Playlist: Yahoo! Audio Search: It’s a start
We’re pretty much agreed. Will probably not find much use for this search engine in its current form but the concept isn’t completely ill-advised. We need good search engines for sound recordings. It might also show that sound files have become quite commonplace outside of unauthorized file sharing.
Surprising there’s no similar tool in Google Labs…
Acadian Verbal Art
Le Festival de la parole stimule l’intérêt envers l’expression orale
Not that it’s necessarily unique but it seems to be targeted at a wide audience. A “Speech Festival” bringing verbal art and oral folklore to the fore.