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September 2008: Music 2.0 Part 2 (1)
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First Monday Podcast (2) permalink
We continue our ongoing series investigating how the music industry's various stakeholders are adapting to the online environment. Indie record label Bloodshot Records weighs in on the discussion reacting to Robert Frost's article, defending the existence of record labels, and examining the larger cultural questions underlying the developing online music industry. Also, Jennifer Kelley reviews Diggnation Podcast. Don't forget to visit our website to download a free sample of Bloodshot Record artists.Shared by phillip (38)Contribute comment -
Security Now 163: DNS Security - Sponsored by Astaro Corp. (1)
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Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte The benefits, challenges, and nuances of secure DNS. Audible pick: Neverwhere, Unabridged, By Neil Gaiman, Narrated by Neil Gaiman. To sign up for a free audio book, visit AudiblePodcast.com/securitynow. For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Security Now is brought to you by Astaro Internet Security. Bandwidth for Security ...Shared by phillip (38)Contribute comment -
Flashcomguru.com: Peer to peer, Speex and UDP now in Flash Player 10 (1)
permalinkIn addition to the new protocol there's a new audio codec, Speex, to go with it. And what a great choice this codec is since Speex is open-source, as well as patent and royalty-free.Shared by phillip (38)
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FLOSS Weekly 43: Rockbox (2)
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Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte Guest: Paul Louden of Rockbox. Rockbox, the open source firmware that runs on many mp3 players. Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.... Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast, and Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Running time: 1:19:47Shared by Duane (35) phillip (38)Contribute comment -
Sony goes after Kindle with new, touchscreen eBook reader (11)
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Sony gears up to take on the Kindle with a new Reader model that's got a touch-sensitive screen, a gesture-driven interface, and a UI that's somewhere between a Reader and an iPhone. We played with the new device at Sony's event and think it has some real potential—with a couple of caveats.Read More...Shared by arturo.servin (24) chris (291) Deborah Petersen (732) Elad Kehat (2) guy (359) JenM (25) Jules (35) phillip (38) Tal Siach (394) Zak M. (692) Zeeshan Kazmi (15)Contribute comment - Intel&8217;s Barrett: Teachers Matter More Than PCs - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com (4)
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Ogg Vorbis Player in Flash (2)
permalinkThe name is: FVorbis. Which stands for more or less “Ogg and Vorbis in Flash”. That’s right, pure ActionScript 3 implementation of the Ogg and Vorbis libraries that require no kind of native support from the Flash Player. A simple Vorbis player implemented using the new FVorbis lib compiles to about 46KB SWF file. And that’s it.Shared by Danny O'Brien (5) phillip (38)
- phillip said: Sweet hack.
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'The Forever War' Author Dexter Filkins Recounts War Coverage (1)
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New York Times war correspondent Dexter Filkins' book, "The Forever War," provides a window into his experiences covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for much of the last decade. He talks to Jeffrey Brown about reporting from the front lines.Shared by phillip (38)Contribute comment -
Reality Break Podcast Episode 5 - Bruce Sterling (1)
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Our guest this episode is author, futurist and design professor Bruce Sterling. This interview was recorded in February 1997 around the release of his novel Holy Fire. He has written ten novels, dozens of short stories, multiple books of essays on futurism and design theory, and the only book on cybercrime from one of the canonical cyberpunk writers, The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier. He and William Gibson are widely regarded ...Shared by phillip (38)Contribute comment -
Digital Forensics (1)
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Dr Matthew Sorell, Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, explores the problems and opportunities of the emerging approach to 'Digital Forensics'.Shared by phillip (38)Contribute comment -
September 24, 2008 Episode (1)
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Larry Niven, the award-winning author of Ringworld, The Mote In God's Eye, and many other hard science fiction novels, is our featured guest. He reveals that Robert A. Heinlein was the secret proofreader for his and Jerry Pournelle's novel The Mote In God's Eye. He describes Jerry Pournelle's personal edit war in Wikipedia, how they and other science fiction writers are helping the Department of Homeland Security, and his own work on Land of the ...Shared by phillip (38)Contribute comment -
Afghanistan to worsen in short term, U.S. general says (1)
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As he prepares to take up his post as head of the U.S. Central Command, General David Petraeus said he expected the fight against the insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan to get worse before it got better.Shared by phillip (38)Contribute comment - Macedonia dispute has an Asian flavor (2)
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