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BlogsTags > musicFour short links: 2 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 24, 2013 Metrico — puzzle game for Playstation centered around infographics (charts and graphs). (via Flowing Data) The Lease They Can Do (Business Week) — excellent Paul Ford piece on money, law, and music streaming services. So this is not about technology. … Four short links: 22 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 22, 2013 Indiepocalypse: Harlem Shake Edition (Andy Baio) — After four weeks topping the Billboard Hot 100, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s “Thrift Shop” was replaced this week by Baauer’s “Harlem Shake,” the song that inspired the Internet meme. SplinterNet — an Android … Four short links: 30 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 30, 2013 Chinese Attack UAV (Alibaba) — Small attack UAV is characterized with small size, light weight, convenient carrying, rapid outfield expansion procedure, easy operation and maintenance; the system only needs 2-3 operators to operate, can be carried by surveillance personnel to … Length and spine width in a digital-first worldBy Joe WikertJanuary 8, 2013 I’m still working through this extremely long exchange between Nicholas Carr and Clay Shirky about containers and contents but one point keeps jumping out at me: We have got to get away from thinking every “book” has to be at … Four short links: 28 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 26, 2012 Kenyan Women Create Their Own Geek Culture (NPR) — Oguya started spending some Saturday mornings with Colaco and other women, snipping code and poring through hacker cookbooks. These informal gatherings became the Akirachix. Oguya graduated and turned her mobile phone … Four short links: 20 April 2012
By Nat TorkingtonApril 20, 2012 Tupac Coachella Behind the Technology (CBS) -- interesting to me is Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg were considering taking Shakur with them on tour. Just as Hobbit, Tintin, etc. are CG-ing characters to look normal, is the future of "live" spectacle to be this kind of CG show? Will new acts be competing against the Rolling Stones forever? Javascript... Four short links: 27 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 27, 2012 Five Tough Lessons I Had To Learn About Healthcare (Andy Oram) -- I don't normally link to things from Radar but this gels 110% with my limited experience with the healthcare industry. Makematics: Math for Makers -- I want the hardware hackers who are building the next generation of DIY 3D printers to be able to turn topological algorithms... Visualization of the Week: How dance music travels November 4, 2011 A visualization traces 100 years of Western dance music, showing how genres are seamlessly imported and exported across continents. Visualization of the Week: How dance music travelsBy Audrey WattersNovember 4, 2011 A visualization traces 100 years of Western dance music, showing how genres are seamlessly imported and exported across continents. Four short links: 28 October 2011
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 28, 2011 Open Access Week -- a global event promoting Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research. The Copiale Cipher -- cracking a historical code with computers. Details in the paper: The book describes the initiation of "DER CANDIDAT" into a secret society, some functions of which are encoded with logograms. (via Discover Magazine) Coordino -- open source... Four short links: 3 August 2011
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 3, 2011 Just Say No To Freegal -- an interesting view from the inside, speaking out against a music licensing system called Freegal which is selling to libraries. Libraries typically buy one copy of something, and then lend it out to multiple users sequentially, in order to get a good return on investment. Participating in a product like Freegal means that... Music and lyrics and code July 1, 2011 Coding is an art, says Michael Brewer, application programmer specialist at the University of Georgia. In this interview, Brewer discusses the philosophy behind Geek Choir and how it relates to coding and open source. Four short links: 24 June 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJune 24, 2011 Eliza pt 3 -- delightful recapitulation of the reaction to Eliza and Weizenbaum's reaction to that reaction, including his despair over the students he taught at MIT. Weizenbaum wrote therein of his students at MIT, which was of course all about science and technology. He said that they "have already rejected all ways but the scientific to come to... Four short links: 23 May 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMay 23, 2011 PC Emulator in Javascript -- days later and it's mindboggling. US Home Prices as Opera (Flowing Data) -- reminded me of Douglas Adams's "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" which has software that turns your company's performance numbers into music. The yearly accounts of most British companies emerged sounding like the Dead March from "Saul", but in Japan they went... Can open source reinvent the music business? January 18, 2011 Chart success would be nice, but Severed Fifth has a loftier goal than most bands. They want to use hallmarks of the open source movement — specifically, community involvement and free distribution — to change the music business. Four short links: 25 October 2010
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 25, 2010 Pirate Verbatim -- artists, in their own words, talking about piracy. The mix of opinions, attitudes, and nuance shows that there's far from any single consistent view out there. (via Graham Linehan) What Rapleaf Knows About You -- aggregating information from various sites, and your ad clickthroughs, to build a dossier about you that relates your email address to... Four short links: 23 September 2010
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 23, 2010 Universal Location Service -- API access to location information from mobiles on Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T. "Universe" here is defined, naturally, to be "United States of America". The Bubble Cursor in Javascript -- Javascript implementation of a circular cursor that grows and shrinks in size depending on proximity to something interesting. The Revenge of the Intuitive (Brian Eno,... Musopen sets classical music freeBy James TurnerSeptember 14, 2010 The music of Beethoven and Brahms isn't covered by copyright, but performances and sheet music are. With an assist from KickStarter, MusOpen has raised more than enough money to right that wrong by recording and releasing classics into the public domain. Musopen sets classical music free 
By James TurnerSeptember 14, 2010 The music of Beethoven and Brahms isn't covered by copyright, but performances and sheet music are. With an assist from KickStarter, MusOpen has raised more than enough money to right that wrong by recording and releasing classics into the public domain. Four short links: 18 August 2010
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 18, 2010 BBC Dimensions -- brilliant work, a fun site that lets you overlay familiar plcaes with famous and notable things so you can get a better sense of how large they are. Example: the Colossus of Rhodes straddling O'Reilly HQ, the Library of Alexandria vs the Google campus, and New Orleans Mardi Gras began at the headquarters of Fred Phelps's... Four short links: 27 July 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 27, 2010 Digital Continuity Conference Proceedings -- proceedings from a New Zealand conference on digital archiving, preservation, and access for archives, museums, libraries, etc. What Are The Scaling Issues to Keep in Mind While Developing a Social Network Feed? (Quora) -- insight into why you see the failwhale. (via kellan on Twitter) Fan Feeding Frenzy -- Amanda Palmer sells $15k in... Four short links: 26 July 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 26, 2010 Is Wikileaks Growing Up? -- I linked earlier to FAS commentator Steven Aftergood, who had ripped Wikileaks as irresponsible and dangerous. The latest leaks, however, get grudging respect. "the latest dump deals with a perfectly newsworthy topic and -- judging from my initial glances at the news coverage -- Wikileaks itself has acknowledged the necessity of withholding certain portions... Four short links: 15 July 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 15, 2010 How Will You Measure Your Life? (HBR) -- Clayton Christenson's advice to the Harvard Business School's graduating class, every section a gem. If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you’ll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification. If you look at personal lives through that lens, you’ll see the same stunning and... My Credo
By Peter DrescherJune 19, 2010 "I Promise Never To Program A Computer To Play Something I Can't" RIA Review: Roc brings beats to Aviary
By RJ OwenJune 16, 2010 Aviary is an amazingly powerful suite of free online content creation tools, many of which provide all the base line functionality of much more expensive commercial tools. Today Aviary released a beta version of their new simple music creation tool named Roc. I took Roc for a test drive and this is what I found. Four short links: 14 April 2010
By Nat TorkingtonApril 14, 2010 Designing for Social Interaction -- useful and thoughtful advice for designers of social applications. Some people believe that this is changing, that the web is making us closer to more people. On the contrary, research studies have shown that the vast majority of usage on social networks is between strong ties. As we saw earlier, on Facebook it’s with... The Great Flicktubeo - Between Schumacher and von Clausewitz
By Rick JelliffeFebruary 24, 2010 There is so much focus on Social Computing but it strikes me that much of what goes on with YouTube/Vimeo/Flickr content is not personal but very impersonal, in the same way that a private diary is actually very impersonal (man being a social animal): someone documents or declares to the world at large "I did this" or "I liked this". The same goes with much blogging and twittering. The content posted on the Flicktubeos are not MacGuffins designed to merely provoke conversation, and where they are (such as attempts at viral marketing) we feel cheated or that the social contract has somehow not been honoured: the conversation and comments afterwards are the pleasant fallout from the bomb, not the bomb itself. The content is there to fill the universe, to make the external reflect our internal life more: it is a form of cave decoration. All an excuse to link to some great performances. R.I.P. -- Doug Fieger (The Knack)
By Kelli RichardsFebruary 19, 2010 It's been awhile since I posted my last blog entry. You might say I took a sabbatical from it during this past year in light of all the flux with the economy and several other challenges. But I've got my... The Best and the Worst Tech of the Decade
By James TurnerDecember 17, 2009 With only a few weeks left until we close out the 'naughts and move into the teens, it's almost obligatory to take a look back at the best and not-so-best of the last decade. With that in mind, I polled the O'Reilly editors, authors, Friends, and a number of industry movers and shakers to gather nominations. I then tossed them in the trash and made up my own compiled them together and looked for trends and common threads. So here then, in no particular order, are the best and the worst that the decade had to offer. Four short links: 27 August 2009
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 27, 2009 Second Degree Murder and Six Other Crimes Cheaper Than Pirating Music -- I'm outraged that the Obama administration is supporting the RIAA on the case against Jammie Thomas, a single mother of four who has to pay them $1.92 million for downloading songs. That's more expensive than murder and six other crimes... (via Br3nda) Bill Drummond Talk (MP3) --... Old Media, New Media and Where the Rubber Meets the Road
By Mark SigalJuly 29, 2009 My once-beloved San Francisco Chronicle has been “hollowed out,” reduced to a thin pamphlet, thereby accelerating their subscriber attrition. Do you even know anyone who actually uses the Yellow Pages? Remember record stores? Whither Blockbuster? When analog media collides with digital media, “creative destruction” occurs with brutal efficiency…unless you can truly differentiate your offering, a tall task, but not an insurmountable one. Read on Four short links: 25 June 2009
By Nat TorkingtonJune 25, 2009 How an Indie Musician Can Make $19,000 in 10 Hours Using Twitter -- as Zoe Keating pointed out: "cash made by @amandapalmer in one month on Twitter = $19,000; cash made by @amandapalmer from 30,000 record sales = $0". The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics (Wired) -- And not only can we... NiN's Rob Sheridan on iPhone Application Rejection 
By Timothy M. O'BrienMay 5, 2009 In this interview with Rob Sheridan (@rob_sheridan), Nine Inch Nails' Artistic Director, Rob discusses the experience of getting the rejection letter from Apple, and what effect it has on the band's plans to build community applications on the iPhone platform. You'll hear Sheridan express an uneasiness that Apple can act as judge and jury without providing any transparency into the approval process. Four short links: 8 Apr 2009
By Nat TorkingtonApril 8, 2009 Bias, RFCs, virus batteries, and a glimpse at life beyond record labels (the last item features profanity, beware): Bias We Can Believe In (Mind Hacks) -- Vaughn asks the tricky question about the current enthusiasm for Behavioural Economics in government: where are the sceptical voices? As he points out, It's perhaps no accident that almost all the articles cite a... From Open Source Software to Open Culture: Three Misunderstandings 
By Andy OramMarch 22, 2009 The original practice and promise of open source software is unique. The software experience cannot be ported whole-hog into other areas such as sharing songs or organizing public forums. Web Radio for *Listeners* 
By David BattinoMarch 4, 2009 The visionary Lucas Gonze just launched Fresh Hot Radio.com, a smart new twist on Web radio. His mission is to connect mainstream listeners to Web-native music, so the site draws from band communities, musicians' own blogs, and bulletin boards where musicians go to get advice on their mixes. I like his choices. The Sizzling Sound of Music
By Dale DoughertyMarch 2, 2009 Are iPods changing our perception of music? Are the sounds of MP3s the music we like to hear most? Jonathan Berger, professor of music at Stanford, was on a panel with me at a meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Mountain View, CA on Saturday. Berger's presentation had a slide titled: "Live, Memorex or MP3." He... The Beatles of Programming Languages
By Eric LarsonDecember 18, 2008 As a musician and a programmer, I'm constantly drawing relationships between the two activities. My wife, who I play music with, has been the recipient of the the vast majority of these comparisons and asked me the other day, "Is... Creative Commons needs your donations
By Andy OramDecember 13, 2008 Creative Commons is more dependent than ever before on the funds of individuals. More and more people these days are grabbing pictures, text, and other random goods they find online and using them in their own presentations or creative efforts; some of us even build businesses on open contributions. All of us should be promoting the Creative Commons, which has provided licenses to support such sharing in 50 countries and is working with people in many more. Revenge of the 3D Pumpkin
By David BattinoOctober 29, 2008 It's Halloween again, and what better way to set the mood than with a new soundscape album from Mark Greenfield, aka Darwin Chamber? Thanks to intelligent, computer-aided composition, it's much more immersive than the standard serving of ghost moans, melodramatic laughter, and werewolf howls. Paper Case: Music and Video Meet Origami
By David BattinoOctober 21, 2008 Here's a clever Web service: Find a CD or DVD online, click the Paper Case link, and it will print the cover image and details. Then you fold the paper, tuck your disc inside, and slide the package into a binder, saving lots of space. Numbers for Digital's Rise
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 6, 2008 I talk a lot to people who don't quite understand the scale of the media shift from bits to atoms, so I always have my eyes open for numbers and anecdotes that illustrate the point. The latest I found are from an article on Apple's threat to shut the iTunes store if it has to pay more to songwriters: Digital... Audio Performance at 120 MPH!!!
By David JavelosaSeptember 30, 2008 Ok, it’s been 11 months since I’ve written in this blog. But guess what? I’m a new dad! If that isn’t life changing enough I’m not sure what is; except the following techno tale I have to tell. Through a strange intersection of factors, I was personally involved with a pretty interesting audio experiment, digital or otherwise. Let me crank... I Am Trying To Believe (that Rock Stars aren't Dead)By Jim StogdillSeptember 7, 2008 Trent Reznor says "Steal my music" as he recognizes the future of the music business is him monetizing his talent through touring. The rock star made from highly leveraged disc sales is dead. When Inventors Attack: Maker Faire
By David BattinoMay 2, 2008 The third annual Bay Area Maker Faire is this weekend, and looks to be a truly inspiring event. Maker Faire combines art, science, recycling, and entertainment in a hands-on setting that celebrates the inventive spirit. I was there last night for a pre-show gathering of exhibitors (my family and I will be performing our homemade Japanese storycard dramas throughout the... Macs@musikmesse.de
By Jochen WoltersApril 16, 2008 Macs have always been a favorite with musicians and audio engineers, and at this year's Musikmesse Frankfurt, the world's biggest trade show for musical instruments, studio technology, and accessories, you could literally see them everywhere. Computer Music Haiku
By David BattinoApril 4, 2008 Art is disruptive. Computers, strong but stubborn. Let's show them who's boss. What Will They Name After You?
By David BattinoDecember 18, 2007 I feel a little like Bob Moog today — or maybe Adolphe Sax. While Googling for one of my articles, I discovered a musical instrument called the Battino: You play it by whacking a wooden ball with a hammer, causing... Mission: Gather Free Electronic Grooves
By David BattinoDecember 18, 2007 While tracking down some cool songs I heard on the Space Music podcast, I found Kahvi.org, a huge collection of free electronic music in MP3 and (mostly) Ogg Vorbis format. Black Friday Theme Song?
By David BattinoDecember 18, 2007 Sometimes the best way to overcome annoyances is to embrace them and make them your own. To protest the way rampant commercialism has corrupted Christmas carols, O'Reilly author Michael W. Dean recorded "God Rest Ye Merry Bonzo." This "perverted Xmas... 1 to 50 of 50 Stay Connected
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