Tag: techno
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Blogging can kill you
Interesting article about blogging and stress – and the recent stress-related deaths of several professional bloggers. What I find most intriguing about the article is the description of professional bloggers and he sites, and that it’s become in part a digital sweatshop economy, where speed is of the essence. Certainly in the mashup world there…
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Help me, oh iPod-kenobis (and Zune-masters)
OK you techno-g33kz out there can help me – I have been creating video podcasts but having nothing but problems, because although if you follow Apple’s specs for video that will play on an iPod, it still won’t work depending on what software you use (does this sound familiar? And people wonder why I have…
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Oh Delia
If you don’t know of my love of Delia Derbyshire and the mostly unsung heroes of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, well then start here. She produced and engineered the famous Dr Who theme (and if you watch the great Alchemists of Sound documentary, Ron Grainer asked ‘Did I really write that?’ when he heard it,…
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The Pirate’s Dilemma
It seems like music the book selling model is changing – Boing Boing has had a lot of posts recently that support the fairly obvious theory that giving away free e-books actually increases sales (it makes total sense, try before you buy always increases sales, and like CDs sometimes you want the physical object, more…
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Our own Florida?
uh oh – the e-voting part of the Mayoral election bothered me, but with such a close vote is it possible Boris Johnson didn’t win at all? This is the problem with e-voting systems, you cannot easily know as all the votes are counted inside a machine, and the company behind it Indra was involved…
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RC 149: Where Were You in ’92? (Rave – Hardcore pt 2)
Part 2 of the Rave mix; the beats get faster 92-95, and we’re sorted, nice one, wicked, larging it on the pirate airwaves…watch yer bassbins I’m tellin’ yer…with a few interruptions from Heart FM (not that one, the pirate from 1995). Pirate Radio Will Never Die (41Mb, 53mins) M. D. Emm – Got any Hardcore…