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Music 1 - Brooklyn duo Telepathe have a new album out next month and are playing around NY at the moment before spending the summer in Berlin, Germany.Interview and Podcast
Wetware/Software - Transmediale is an annual festival of emerging music and visual art. We wents along to find an unexpectedly geeky event that sought to include things relating to climate change and the like. Report
Music 2 - Alexandre Decoupigny has worked on installations as well as "pure" music and will be appearing at Bleepfest Berlin 3. We chat about audio and visual amongst other things. Interview
Wetware - Last month's Faust interview made Michael Powell interested in Ardnt Peltner, a German language broadcaster in Berkeley, CA. Interview
Travel Update - We update our Berlin guide to include a much larger section on Freidrichshain, which is the part of Berlin where Bleepfest Berlin 3 will be held on Easter weekend. Report
Hardware Update -We found out the answer to the problem of dissappearing MIDI control between a PC and an M-Audio keyboard. The answer is ... here
Music Podcasts - This month it's Brooklyn duo Telepathe with a track
from their next album due out in April 09.Podcasts
More Music - Monthly Video Picks
This month's pick is ...The Cure.
Videos
Games -
Will the recession which hasn't hit gaming yet increase small teams and creativity??
Commentary
Music - Pop/dance the world
of DJ's - mannered? boring? Surely not.
Commentary Music - Classical Baron K listens to some lovely Early Music
and brings Belgian beer into the discussion.
Commentary
Books - Iggy Pop, Bad Monkeys adventures, Watching the English, and growing up
as a surfer in LA.
Reviews
Low-Tech Fixes for High-Tech Problems
Where killer asteroids congregate?
Later this year, NASA will send spacecraft to explore two strange regions of space, where the
gravity fields of our planet and the sun cancel out. They are the belly buttons of the solar system,
trapping rocky debris that falls into them - and that may make them reservoirs of killer
asteroids.
Venice Carnevale with its masks, balls, and multifarious other
activities, starts this week.
This site in English
and Italian will give you some clues.
We guess there are certain parts of town where this won't ride ... from the NYT...
'Perhaps you haven’t really noticed yet, but fashion-forward men, like my new trinity of adoration — Bryan Boy, Yu Masui and Jean-Paul Paula — have been feminizing their ensembles and pushing past females in the next-level department. And I, for one, am rapt.
The look, to be clear, is not at all about cross-dressing. It’s men dressing mostly like men but with accessories and the odd (Prada lace) halter from the women’s department. It’s so genius that it makes you wonder why every guy doesn’t do this. It also makes me think I am getting sartorially lazy; it’s time to step up the game.
Believe me, to see Yu Masui in tattered khakis and an old white tee beneath a Jil Sander spring/summer ‘08 sheer color-block dress is to know that you are really not thinking outside the box.
more at http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/the-next-level-boys-with-birkins/ with pics.
CISAC, the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers, is pleased to announce
that the World Copyright Summit 2009 will take place 9 & 10 June 2009 in Washington DC.
All components of the creative industries will discuss scenarios and solutions for the future at the
World Copyright Summit 2009, the world’s premier international cross-industry forum on copyright and
intellectual property issues. The time has come for “New Frontiers for Creators in the Marketplace!”
Following a successful inaugural edition in Brussels in 2007, the second World Copyright Summit will
gather during a two-day conference all the stakeholders in the creation, licensing, usage and
dissemination of intellectual property and creative content. This exclusive global event will
attract high-profile creators and creative industry leaders as well as top policy-makers from
Capitol Hill and from the rest of the world.
You can book your place now [roaming.msgfocus.com] at the World Copyright Summit. More information
will be
posted onto the website soon.
Urban Festival of Art, Music, and Ideas
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Sat, 28 Feb 2009
f e a t u r e s: March 2009
Sat, 21 Feb 2009
By PAUL BOUTIN
Published: February 18, 2009
BEHIND the cash register at Smoke Shop No. 2 in downtown San Francisco, Sam Azar
swipes a customer’s credit card to ring up Turkish cigarettes. The store’s card
reader fails to scan the card’s magnetic strip. Azar swipes again, and again. No luck.
As customers begin to queue, he reaches beneath the counter for a black plastic bag.
He wraps one layer of the plastic around the card and swipes it again. Success.
The sale is rung up.
more fixes at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/technology/personaltech/19basics.html?em
Wed, 18 Feb 2009
Tue, 10 Feb 2009
Amazon.com have just released their update to the e-book reader, the Kindle.
It has seven times more memory than the original and a sharper screen. Commentators
have said the price of US$359 remains high but the unit continues to be popular
with travelling professionals.
Should you want one immediately, just click below and Mstation will benefit as well.
As a matter of interest, we also wondered what software was around for the Linux-based
Kindle and we came across this interesting page which talks about getting a console
going and interesting ideas connected with the fact that the Kindle has unlimited
wifi internet access built into the price.
Mon, 09 Feb 2009
EFF Calls on Federal Regulators to Protect Consumers from
DRM
DRM Technologies Impede Innovation and Thwart Consumers'
Rights
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today to
mitigate the damage that digital rights management (DRM)
technologies cause consumers.
In public comments submitted to the FTC today, EFF
explained how DRM, backed by the anti-circumvention
provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA),
impedes innovation and thwarts consumers' rights to make
full use of their digital music, movies, software, and
videogames. EFF urged the commission to study DRM's effect
on competition in the marketplace, investigate whether the
effects of DRM are fully disclosed to consumers, and
promote a set of "Best Practices" that, if followed, would
help alleviate the burdens of DRM for consumers.
Industry leaders argue that DRM is necessary to protect
sales of digital media, but DRM systems are consistently
and routinely broken almost immediately upon their
introduction.
"DRM does not prevent piracy," said EFF Staff Attorney
Corynne McSherry. "At this point, DRM seems intended to
accomplish a very different purpose: giving some industry
leaders unprecedented power to influence the pace and
nature of innovation and upsetting the traditional balance
between the interests of copyright owners and the interests
of the public. The best way to fix the problem is to get
rid of DRM on consumer products and reform the DMCA, but
the steps we're suggesting will help protect technology
users and future technology innovation in the meantime."
EFF's comments were filed in conjunction with the FTC's
Town Hall on DRM, set for March 25 in Seattle. The Town
Hall is free and open to the public.
For EFF's full comments to the FTC:
http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/DRM/DRMCOMMENTS_final.pdf
For more on the FTC Town Hall on DRM:
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/12/drm.shtm
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Fri, 06 Feb 2009
Wed, 04 Feb 2009
Cost options for attending World Copyright Summit
Bring 3 delegates for the price of 2!
Early bird (valid before May 1st 2009)
CISAC member: $800
Partner Organizations: $900
Commercial Organizations and non-CISAC members: $1099
Standard (from May 1st 2009 onwards)
CISAC member: $899
Partner Organizations: $999
Commercial Organizations and non-CISAC members: $1199
We look forward to seeing you in Washington next year!
The World Copyright Summit Team
Mon, 02 Feb 2009
13 -16 May 2009
http://futuresonic.com