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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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Technolotics up for a Vidcast Award
Seems like Technolotics has been nominated (not by me, I’d have picked a better episode!) for a Vidcast Award at this years Irish blog awards. If you liked the show, you can vote for it here. We were nominated for two episodes, clearly in a sly attempt to split the hordes of eager voters, so… Read more
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Joost not good enough?
The Venice project, a mysterious beta application from Kazaa and Skype creators Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, has being variously hailed as the future of television, and the application which may finally bring to its knees the aging last mile bandwidth of the internet itself. Retitled in mid January to ‘Joost‘, TVP is an IPTV… Read more
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Politics Rant
I should apologize for updating this blog so infrequently, I guess I’ve been intimidated since being described, along with Dave Winer and Doc Searl, as one of the most original thinkers on the internet. I mean, how do you follow a description like that? Well how about tangentially? I’ve been trying to think of a… Read more
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The Artist at 60
Happy birthday to the Thin White Duke, Aladin Sane, Ziggy StarDust, the Laughing Gnome, the pioneer of psychedelic folk, glam, new romanticism, stadium rock, drum and base. Happy birthday to the explorer and exploiter of subjectivity, derangement, fascism, drama and androgyny, listed as an influence by countless musicians like Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Joy Division,… Read more
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More on eMusic
The folk at Axehole have responded to my post (responding to their post) about eMusic, DRM and the like. Gareth Stack posts a well reasoned counter-argument to this post at his blog, Hummingbird Mentality. It’s an interesting read, though we’re not convinced. One note – he takes issue with my characterization of eMusic’s service as… Read more
