Monday, February 07, 2005

Freebies: The History of Pop Music and A Man Who Worked In It. Freebie Alert #1: XM Satellite Radio offers complete playlists of every Number One record for each decade: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. These are free to download. Get the link. 8:11:10 PM

All the News That's Fit to Buy. A couple of websites purporting to be legitimate news outlets are the subject of a probe into the Pentagon's practice of paying journalists to write articles and commentary to influence opinion. The military calls them 'information operations.' 8:10:16 PM

Nextel to Receive New Broadcast Spectrum  Nextel Communications Inc. has agreed to a plan by federal regulators aimed at ending the interference from Nextel cell phones that disrupts public safety communication systems in hundreds of communities. 8:06:56 PM

Which side of your brain is dominant? (take the test!) Why does it matter? According to Daniel Pink's latest article in Wired, we are moving from the Information Age (which favored the logic of the left brainers) to a new Conceptual Age (which favors the empathy and emotion of the right brainers). Don't get left behind! 8:05:56 PM

Telecom consolidation raises concerns for IT. The merger frenzy in the telecommunications industry accelerated with SBC's agreement to buy AT&T, leaving some IT managers concerned about the possible short- and long-term impacts on their network services. 8:04:39 PM

RealNetworks Shares Jump 20 Percent  RealNetworks Inc.'s shares rose more than 20 percent Monday after a published report touted the company's subscription music offering. 8:02:49 PM

Going Glocal RADIO TAXI is a Taxi Gallery narrowcast and webcast initiative. Taxi Gallery is literally a black cab situated in a council estate on the outskirts of Cambridge, England. Since Sept 2001, over 25 different artists have made new works in response to the specific context offered by the gallery and its location. Taxi Gallery is a project that reaches for an extended conversation with local, national and international audiences (via its website) in response to a broad range of challenging contemporary artworks, approaches and ideas. The translocal or "glocal" philosophy of Taxi Gallery is reflected in the forthcoming RADIO TAXI project which will integrate a 3 mile radius analogue FM broadcast with a worldwide digital transmission via a server capable of handling multiple streams. RADIO TAXI will be a live(ly) mix of locally originated programmes and interventions (significant community involvement by neighbourhood residents of all ages will be developed, including several major projects with Coleridge Secondary School and an evolving radio club), a curated programme of invited sound works and a schedule of sonic art from all over the world. Kirsten Lavers, cris cheek, (TNWK) and Simon Keep invite sound artists (including writers, poets, visual artists, musicians working with sound) to submit work for a short range FM and internet radio event in late May and early June 2005 7:34:59 PM

Going Back to 56K. One UK broadband user unimpressed. We've seen several stories where users claim that the hassle of keeping their computer updated and secure has forced them to quit the internet. Techdirt today points to this BBC story about one man who says he's going back to dial-up. 7:31:37 PM

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