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Solving The Online Music Format Mess...
With Another Format?

Solving The Online Music Format Mess...
With Another Format? 12/11/2003 02:43 AM
Now that every other company is starting a music download store (even if no one is making any money off of it), people are beginning to realize that maybe it makes sense to come up with a single format that works for anyone. Of course, some might say that we've already got formats that work, but the folks over in the recording industry seem to have a mental block when it comes to the formats that everyone likes to use. So, now, Microsoft, Universal Music and others, under the title of the Content Reference Forum, are teaming up to create a new music format - but one that makes it easier for them to make you buy the music. There aren't all that many details, but it appears to be going back to some of the very original concepts behind a hypertext system: that content only needs to be available once, and any time you want to access it, you just link to it. In other words, instead of offering downloadable music, the plan is to offer links to music that is served up remotely. Of course, one of the "features" of such a system is that the content providers can know (and, potentially, charge you) every time you want to hear that certain song. It's an interesting idea, but it seems to make the music less valuable. Suddenly, it can only be listened to from an internet connected machine, you don't actually own anything, and the big content providers get to keep a big database of exactly what songs you listen to when. Doesn't sound all that appealing to me. The one thing that it does have going for it, is that it allows people to "share" - if, by share, you mean point someone to a link and let them pay for it themselves.

New music format from Sony

New music format from Sony 11/13/2003 04:07 PM
In an attempt to challenge Apple's current dominance of the exploding online music market, Sony has announced plans to embed on copy-protected CDs digital music files which can only be played on Sony-approved equipment. The files, which are encoded in a proprietary format, cannot be read by or stored on unapproved devices like Apple's iPod, but can easily be transfered to an approved portable device for portable playback. Critics of the plan point out past failures of copy protection...

Real to launch AAC format music store

Real to launch AAC format music store 01/05/2004 11:33 PM
Real Networks is expected to launch a digital music store later this week based on technology similar to that used in Apple's iTunes Music Store...

Major Music Labels Promote New CD Format

Major Music Labels Promote New CD Format 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
Consumers will soon see a new digital music format in their local stores. Called DataPlay digital media, these news discs are smaller than CDs and represent the music industry's latest attempt to distribute music in a copy-protected format. Three of the top five record companies -- Universal Music, EMI Group and BMG -- have already signed on.

Politicians Consider Mandating Single
Music Format Standard

Politicians Consider Mandating Single
Music Format Standard 04/06/2005 06:28 PM
Politicians really like to meddle where no meddling is needed, don't they? The latest, is that some politicians are responding to complaints by users concerning all the different digital music file formats by thinking about lega lly mandating music file compatibility. While the industry has been particularly shortsighted in not setting up compatibility on their own (the more compatible, the more people can use your system, the more value the songs have, the more value your system has -- seems easy enough), the idea that the government should step in and force compatibility seems like a dreadful idea that would simply stop all innovation when it came to music file formats. Forcing every music file format to meet some politically motivated standard will make it difficult for newer or better file formats to be created. There's simply no reason the government needs to be involved here.

Forum approves Apple music format for
DVD Audio

Forum approves Apple music format for
DVD Audio 06/14/2004 08:10 AM
The Register Jun 14 2004 12:31PM GMT

The man who invented the future

The man who invented the future 07/22/2004 07:41 AM
Alan Moore, who reinvented the comic book as the cutting-edge literary medium of our day, talks about beheading, the diabolical power of the media, the Bush dynasty and the fall of Tony Blair.

The Man who Invented Metadata

The Man who Invented Metadata 10/29/2003 12:12 AM
I just gave a talk at the first Ascential user conference. I was talking mainly about how metadata is rooted in human desire. Afterwards, Bernard Plagman approached me and struck up a conversation. He apparently is the person who coined the term "metadata" in an article in 1971. Back when he wrote Data Dictionary/Directory Systems (Wiley, 1974), it was necessary to argue that metadata ought to be managed the same way data is. And now, a short 30 years later, metadata is the new data....

IT WAS INVENTED FOR A NOVEL. SO HOW IS
IT A "THEORY"?

IT WAS INVENTED FOR A NOVEL. SO HOW IS
IT A "THEORY"? 11/02/2003 02:08 AM
US TV SET FOR 'JESUS WIFE' STORM .. BBC News/Entertainment Article

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3229829.stm
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Isn't this why the Internet was
invented?

Isn't this why the Internet was
invented? 11/12/2003 04:32 PM
Bad Toon Rising - Think you remember what Mickey Mouse looks like? Daffy Duck? Bart Simpson? Ok - grab a scrap of paper and draw that character. Right now. (No peeking!!) Some other people already have, and these are the results.....

New York Invented Christmas

New York Invented Christmas 01/07/2004 06:02 PM
It probably comes as little surprise to most of my readers that I'm known for being something of a Scrooge....

A Movie From Before Movies Were Invented

A Movie From Before Movies Were Invented 04/11/2004 09:30 AM

How the Net Invented Howard Dean

How the Net Invented Howard Dean 12/24/2003 06:33 AM
Forget fund raising (though his opponents sure can't). The real reason the doctor is in: He listens to the technology -- and the people who use it. By Gary Wolf from Wired magazine.

Jybe! - CoSurfing Re-Invented

Jybe! - CoSurfing Re-Invented 04/08/2005 10:21 AM

Jybe! CoSurfing Re-Invented

Jybe! - CoSurfing Re-Invented
http://www.jybe.com/

Jybe is a spy ware free plug-in to Internet Explorer and Firefox that enables you to surf the web with your peers in real-time. Jybe lets you browse the web in real-time with friends, family and business partners. Show off your favorite websites or give your customer a live tour of your product catalog. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog.

In 1927 Philo Farnsworth invented a

In 1927 Philo Farnsworth invented a 08/21/2004 08:39 PM
TechTree Aug 21 2004 11:49PM GMT

How HP invented the market for iPod
resellers

How HP invented the market for iPod
resellers 01/19/2004 04:13 PM
Buying its own IP

Photoshop was invented for Star Wars

Photoshop was invented for Star Wars 12/04/2003 08:20 AM
Photoshop was developed as part of the SFX efforts for Star Wars:

Thomas was a programmer, while John was in charge of special effects for the first Star Wars film. Brown confirms: "Photoshop is here today because of that movie." Thomas developed software to add effects and painting tools to images at John's request.

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Salon.com Books The man who invented the
future

Salon.com Books The man who invented the
future 07/24/2004 06:11 PM
interview with Alan Moore .. Salon

salon.com/books/int/2004/07/22/moore/index.html
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How Japanese-equivalent QWERTY was
invented

How Japanese-equivalent QWERTY was
invented 03/24/2005 11:29 AM
Cory Doctorow: Great history of the early days of Japanese typewriters:

The time was ripe for a Japanese typewriter, but the daunting structure of the written language, with its multiple scripts and thousands of characters, stymied early attempts to develop one. Into the breach stepped inventor Sugimoto Kyota (1882-1972), often hailed as the Edison of Japan. Sugimoto began by studying the relative frequency of individual kanji, eventually arriving at a minimum set of some 2,400 characters (unabridged Japanese character dictionaries list as many as 50,000).

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"How The Internet Invented Howard Dean"

"How The Internet Invented Howard Dean" 12/26/2003 09:03 AM

G O P.com :: Totally San Fran

G O P.com :: Totally San Fran 05/22/2004 04:03 AM
17 Years Of San Francisco Liberalism .. Here they go again .. RNC Pelosi File

gop.com/RNCResearch/Read.aspx?ID=4217
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Totally 80s Weekend

Totally 80s Weekend 04/09/2004 04:00 PM
I'm a child of the 80s and I take great pride in it. I've always scored above average on the various "80s purity test" sites. As a result, I have a particular fondness for the popular music of the 80s--especially the one-hit wonders that seemed to make up a fair amount of the Billboard charts. One of the few local radio stations that I can tolerate (there are exactly four) has been playing only 80s music this weekend, calling it...

I'm Totally Straight, But ...

I'm Totally Straight, But ... 03/26/2005 04:30 PM
Cruel Site of the Day party game: Find a phrase that lends itself to unintentionally funny or self-damning results in Google.

Not Totally Entertained

Not Totally Entertained 07/06/2004 03:23 PM
Total Entertainment Restaurant's earnings for the second quarter fall short.

"Totally inappropriate"

"Totally inappropriate" 07/02/2004 06:14 PM

This is totally coolio

This is totally coolio 05/19/2004 01:21 AM
Political Friendster.

Political Friendster applies Friendster's approach to current politics, mostly with an American focus. It treats c ompanies, p oliticians, a gencies, and o bjects as friends with profiles and six-degrees-of-separation links. There's also a Flash-based visualiza tion tool, a bit like the excellent They Rule.

(thanks to jordan fink)

[Smart Mobs]

Now who do I talk to about these folks supporting FOAF?

totally bummed

totally bummed 07/06/2004 11:34 AM
ass-vertise! [warning: no nudity, but somewhat cheeky. possibly NSFW.]

World Wide Web invented by English
knight

World Wide Web invented by English
knight 01/02/2004 07:08 AM
Tim Berners-Lee to be knighted .. knighted

w3.org/2003/12/timbl_knighted
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Time Wonders, Who Invented Warchalking?
and Other Howlers

Time Wonders, Who Invented Warchalking?
and Other Howlers 11/10/2003 10:55 PM
In a short piece on warchalking, writer fails the test: The author of this article in Time magazine finds a warchalk symbol (so he says...I've yet to see one in the wild), and writes a good, short piece about it. Good until he notes, Nobody knows who invented warchalking. This reminds me of some of the lines from my favorite canceled sci-fi animated series, Futurama, set 1,000 years in the future. We're in the present, so I type who invented warchalking into Google, and most of the matches explain precisely, as is well known, Matt Jones invented it. He designed the sign, spread the meme, posted a PDF with the graphics in it. I wrote about him and warchalking for The New York Times, in fact. Hilariously, the 2nd match on Google right now is this Time article. They have a lot of inbound links does Time magazine. Time published a huge package of wireless stories about a week ago. They come off as a little bland to me, because I know everything that's in them. To an audience that knows little or nothing about Wi-Fi, I'm sure this sounds much more exciting. But it reads like circa 2002 newspaper coverage. The articles all have some missed notes, too, mostly in the technical and statistical details. In an article detailing business use of Wi-Fi, this statistic is thrown in: a surprisingly small number of U.S. firms that have installed wi-fi networks. Fewer than 5% of U.S. workers use them today, according to an estimate by Gartner, a high-tech research firm. Unfortunately, the author has confused five percent of workers with five percent of companies. In this News.com article from a few days ago, the reporter presents an array of statistics on business use, including overall industry sales figures, and cites Jupitermedia's number: 57 percent of businesses are using Wi-Fi already to some degree. (Damn, I even know that magazine reporter; we worked on our college paper together.) Given that companies like Microsoft and Novell have thousands of workers -- basically everyone with a laptop -- using Wi-Fi all the time all day everywhere on campus, that five percent of all workers is the mobile, laptop-connected five percent. What percentage of U.S. workers have computers at all? What percentage have laptops? That would better contextualize the number. Maryanne Murray Buechner's pieces, including this FAQ, are quite excellent, offering sensible accurate advice...

China shunning technology invented
abroad

China shunning technology invented
abroad 05/23/2004 07:43 PM
AP via New Jersey Online May 23 2004 9:56PM GMT

Wired 12.01: How the Internet Invented
Howard Dean

Wired 12.01: How the Internet Invented
Howard Dean 12/25/2003 08:08 AM
How the Internet Invented Howard Dean .. Nettiness of the Dean campaign .. Wired

wired.com/wired/archive/12.01/dean_pr.html
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asked 11 prominent people to write about
a device that they'd like to see
invented

asked 11 prominent people to write about
a device that they'd like to see
invented 10/31/2003 05:00 AM
"Ideas Unlimited. Built to Order."

nytimes.com/2003/10/30/technology/circuits/30idea.html
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And when you totally hose your
httpd.conf, this li ...

And when you totally hose your
httpd.conf, this li ... 11/19/2003 08:07 PM

And when you totally hose your httpd.conf, this little command: httpd -t is really, really useful. Just makin' the mistakes so you don't have to ;-)

1:12 AM | Chris Cummer

Total change totally good

Total change totally good 05/02/2004 09:01 PM
I had my very first flute lesson today, and it was totally amazing. My teacher's name is Nick, and he's...

Macaque Monkey Goes Totally Bipedal

Macaque Monkey Goes Totally Bipedal 07/22/2004 09:48 PM

Rise of Linux totally unstoppable, IBM
says

Rise of Linux totally unstoppable, IBM
says 10/29/2003 12:10 AM
Other panelists, including representatives from Trolltech, SuSE Linux, and MySQL’s CEO, Marten Mikos, commented on the SCO legal claims. ...

Benefits Of A Totally CSS Driven Site

Benefits Of A Totally CSS Driven Site 06/22/2005 02:33 AM

Invision Board Totally Modded

Invision Board Totally Modded 12/05/2003 04:24 AM
Looking for Modders and Skinners

Two-factor login not totally useless

Two-factor login not totally useless 04/15/2005 03:29 PM
Blog: Security expert Bruce Schneier recently criticized two-factor authentication, which is designed to improve security by pairing...
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