Category Archives: Pre-UrHo

Right now, I’m in the middle of reading an inspiring text book. Philip Greenspun is a long standing <a href="http://www.mit.edu"MIT denizen, a leading advocate for the construction of web-based communities, and the author of Philip and Alex’s Guide to Web … Continue reading →

Back in 2003, after the end of the war part of the Iraq war (don’t worry, this is a post about music, not politics), Seymour Hersh wrote an article in the New Yorker titled, The Stovepipe. Hersh defines “stovepiping” as … Continue reading →

This post is a little different from others I’ve made. It is still an overly long and maybe less than precisely clear exposition on a technical issue of limited interest on which I have minimal expertise, so there’s no reason … Continue reading →

My overseer when I worked at the Willamette Week a couple of years back, Nigel Jacquiss won a Pulizer Prize this week. The prize, awarded for investigative journalism, went to Jaquiss for breaking the story of former Oregon governor <a … Continue reading →

Thanks to IT Conversations, I just found a website that may fulfill all of the criteria from my last post on the need for an easy online music licensing system. Right now, I’m listening to a conversation on the Future … Continue reading →

Summary: We need a unified web-based system for clearing samples and paying royalties on cover versions. Such a system, if it was highly user friendly, both for the licensor and the licensee, would result in the legitimization of a greater … Continue reading →

There was an interesting post a couple of days ago over at The Technology Liberation Front on The Radio “Monopoly” Myth. You hear so much discussion of the dangers of media consolidation, much of it with a Chicken Little-ish tone, … Continue reading →

I’ve mentioned Net News Wire 2.0, my RSS reader of choice, here a number of times before (most recently here, and in my original review). In that original review, I discussed the possibility of NNW replacing Safari as my browser … Continue reading →

As part of what seems to be “March is Keren Ann Month” in the national music media (NPR, NYT Fashion, the Boston Globe, and even Pitchfork), the NY Times ran a story by Jon Pareles this Sunday on the rise … Continue reading →

The scale of this idea really couldn’t be a whole lot smaller, but since I know there’s a couple of you out there who have recently started using (or recently bought: good for you) Net News Wire 2.0b, I thought … Continue reading →