Archive for the ‘Web2.0’ Category
Thursday, January 8th, 2009
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We’re about a decade into our own hopeless war of prohibition, this one against “peer-to-peer piracy.” The copyright industry has used every legal means within its reach (and some that may not be so legal) to stop Internet “pirates” from “sharing” copyrighted content without permission. These “copyright wars”—what the late Jack Valenti, former head of the Motion Picture Association of America, called his own “terrorist war” in which apparently the “terrorists” are our kids—have consumed an ever growing amount of legal resources. The Recording Industry Association of America alone has sued tens of thousands of individuals. These suits allege millions of dollars in damages. And schools across the nation have adopted strict policies to block activity that the Supreme Court in 2005 declared presumptively illegal.
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The next time someone tries to convince you that releasing music under CC will cannibalize digital sales, remember that Ghosts I-IV broke that rule, and point them here.
Tags: CC, copyright, creative commons
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
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Fortunately, a year and a half later, Eric noted A Place to Bury Strangers playing on Sirius Radio and referenced an old Pitchfork review he had read about them and today I am very happily reunited with the sounds of Ackermann. Kismet!
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Resolver One blends a familiar spreadsheet-like interface with the powerful Python programming language to give you a tool to analyse and present your data.
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It’s noteworthy that from the description given in the article, even running your own DNS server won’t stop this, unless said DNS server is either running custom software to never service unknown names, or it’s completely inaccessible from the outside. Any DNS server that both sender and recipient can talk to will work for what he has, though it can almost certainly be detected via audit logs.
All this reminds me of a friend who used to talk about IP tunneling over DNS, because DNS was usually a deliberately open port in any firewall. This would allow him to run programs talking to non-standard ports by going through the IP-over-DNS gateway, then having another end of the tunnel on his home machine to send packets out. No idea whether or not he ever actually did it, but there is software out there to do this…
Posted by: Bryan Feir at December 17, 2008 5:44 PM
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Most Web Polling software are free, intuitive and require no technical knowledge but the only problem is that there are just too many polling services available and picking the one that best fits your requirement may not be that easy. The following guide therefore highlights the unique features of all the popular web polling software around and this should help you make the right choice quickly.
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Sunday, January 4th, 2009
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Manage your activities, collaborate with others, and organize your life (or business) all in one integrated platform.
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Social Mention is a social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and microblogging services.
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Track news articles on any topic across the world in real time!
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This 2008 ECAR research study is a longitudinal extension of the 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 ECAR studies of students and information technology. The study is based on quantitative data from a spring 2008 survey of 27,317 freshmen and seniors at 90 four-year institutions and eight two-year institutions; student focus groups that included input from 75 students at four institutions; and analysis of qualitative data from 5,877 written responses to open-ended questions. In addition to studying student ownership, experience, behaviors, preferences, and skills with respect to information technologies, the 2008 study also includes a special focus on student participation in social networking sites.
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Tags: A Place to Bury Strangers, aptbs, ECAR, IT, social network, undergraduates, web2.0
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
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friendbo is a University of Washington research deployment to help people socially share the semi-private parts of their lives on the Internet. Rather than manage whitelists, blacklists, accounts and passwords, our users guard content with secret questions that only subgroups of their friends can answer. This is more intuitive, scalable, social, and fun than access control lists, providing an infrastructure that allows people to share more of their lives online.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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Hiotly tipped Brooklyn headline trio blend Cure-ish bass lines and Joy Division-styled guitars to moodily groovy,
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Psychedelic shoegazers A Place To Bury Strangers, of New York New York, have been affectionately labelled as the city’s loudest band by local reviewers. And noisy they are, but it’s definitely good noise.
Tags: A Place to Bury Strangers, aptbs, facebook, security, social software, web 2.0
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
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ASK GOOGLE TO PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY
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A story has a beginning, a middle, and a cleanly wrapped-up ending. Whether told around a campfire, read from a book, or played on a DVD, a story goes from point A to B and then C. It follows a trajectory, a Freytag Pyramid—perhaps the line of a human life or the stages of the hero’s journey. A story is told by one person or by a creative team to an audience that is usually quiet, even receptive. Or at least that’s what a story used to be, and that’s how a story used to be told. Today, with digital networks and social media, this pattern is changing. Stories now are open-ended, branching, hyperlinked, cross-media, participatory, exploratory, and unpredictable. And they are told in new ways: Web 2.0 storytelling picks up these new types of stories and runs with them, accelerating the pace of creation and participation while revealing new directions for narratives to flow.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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There were some really loud performances during KEXP’s live broadcast from Gibson Showroom during the 2008 CMJ Music Marathon — from bands like All The Saints, Johnny Foreigner, and Freshkills — but undoubtedly the loudest of all came from A Place to Bury Strangers, a group whose extreme decibel level had even caused the NYC police to shut down a CMJ club show earlier in the week!
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Eschewing any notions of revolution in favour of evolution, A Place To Bury Strangers have moved the scuzzed-up possibilities of 21st century rock’n’roll to where it should be – louder, brasher and with the ability to upset firmly in place. The album largely succeeds because of its honesty.
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“Screaming out of New York City at a million decibels an hour, A Place To Bury Strangers trade in unrelenting bursts of feedback, elliptical basslines and clinically brutal drum fills.” That’s how Rock Sound describes APTBS latest opus (which has finally been given a UK release through Rocket Girl) in this month’s issue and gives them 9/10 for it. Not bad, eh
Tags: A Place to Bury Strangers, aptbs, google, privacy, web 2.0
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
PHP Web Gallery
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PhpWebGallery is a free and open source software used to present photo collections on your web site.
Mimimal HTML
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I am often surprised by just how many professionally-designed sites are delivered in the form of incomplete HTML documents. To be fair, however, the amount of code required for even an empty HTML document has grown significantly over the years.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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A little oxygen and a stop for some food did the trick and it was back to the clubland of the Visitors Center for the deafening shoegaze of New York’s A Place To Bury Strangers. While the room was packed to the gills at the beginning of the set, little or no lighting except a projector that bathed the entire stage in a strange pulsing glow of light and images combined with the sheer volume was enough to drive many away and before long there was room to move and breath. With time, their ear splitting white noise gave way to a strangely hypnotic psych pop sound that couldn’t help but evoke comparisons to My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus and Mary Chain before everything blended into one and escape to the radio friendly pop of Vampire Weekend was the only cure.
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A Place To Bury Strangers have certainly made a positive and thunderous impression on the music scene. They will be taking to the stage in The Limelight on Monday 1st December.
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the guitarist sure can make his rather beat-up guitar scream. he would violently strum with the whammy bar inside his hand… never really noticed anyone do that before. while airiel were loud and intense, a place to bury strangers varied their sound and made their set much more dynamic
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Strobes and raw noise are almost all I remember from A Place to Bury Stranger’s set. Constant pulsating light and darkness messed with my camera, which if animated, would surely have seeked immediate shelter in a closet or bathroom. With a crowd packed tight in the Heart of the Rock stage, more was felt rather than heard.
Tags: a place to bury strangers, aptbs, chicago, colorado, photo, php
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
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With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways -– mathematically and scientifically — that only computers can.
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Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled “a ragtag band of volunteers,” gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia.
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In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces.
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In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces.
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In the same way that a circle turns into a solid sphere, an ellipse can become a solid “ellipsoid”.
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In the same way that a circle turns into a solid sphere, an ellipse can become a solid “ellipsoid”.
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And the U.K. is A Place To Bury Strangers as the band tours the islands come late November / December. November 29 is Birmingham at Barfly, November 30 is Glasgow at Nice ‘N’ Sleazy and December 1 is Belfast at The Limelight. Other cities include Manchester, Cardiff, Leeds and London.
Tags: a place to bury Strangers, aptbs, surface area
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Travel Tools
A Place to Bury Strangers
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Oliver Ackerman is an absolute genius, by the way. If they come to your town go see them, and don’t sit somewhere with a beer: stand up, put in your earplugs and watch him nurse what will probably be the most diverse group of tones out of his instruments you’ll hear in quite some time.
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Lead singer Oliver Ackermann’s stand-in-place shoegazing was in stark contrast to the breathless stage-traveling Reznor would later exhibit.
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Ackerman took a few minutes before the set on Sunday night, to answer 7 questions, for my continuing series Get to Know In 7.
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Though A Place to Bury Strangers’ albums receive much praise, the best way to experience them is live. Guitarist and vocalist Oliver Ackerman is a tremendous performer; urging an unbelievable range of tones from his instrument, sometimes using nothing but feedback and broken strings against pickups.
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Is pain-punk a genre? If not, APTBS may have just created it. Frontman/guitarist Oliver Ackermann concluded with an exclamation point: ripping the strings out of his guitar and slinging it around before exiting the stage.
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I really digged the whole flashing lights thing toward the end of the set and Oliver taking the strings out of his guitar. (It looked like was what he was doing. I may be wrong.)
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Anyways the lead guitarist was manic on his guitar and combined with the flashing lights made the whole performance awesome. The guitarist and drummer were nice enough to sign a shirt one of their only fan’s in the crowd threw to them.
Tags: A Place to Bury Strangers, aptbs, Travel
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
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In fact have you ever wondered what the Jesus and Mary Chain would sound like with synths or with a Cure (think Faith) fixation? Wonder no more. I give you A Place to Bury Strangers.
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This list features a huge variety of search engines that can be useful to students, including tools that find photos, sound effects, summer internships, health and medical information, reference guides, and a lot more.
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urn to this list for 100 useful Web tools that will help you with your career, your sanity and your creativity whenever your write.
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Simple living — aka voluntary simplicity — has just about as many definitions as there are individuals who practice it.
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No doubt about it: Bookmarks make the Web a friendly place. As you collect bookmarks in Safari, you’re able to immediately jump from one site to another with a single click on the Bookmarks menu or the buttons on the Bookmarks bar.
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Welcome to OS X help. If you are new to the Macintosh, OS X, and Apple, you have come to the right place. If this is your first time here, we suggest you start at the beginning, and work your way to the current post, which you see below.
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Integrate a variety of USPS Web Tools™ into your website, shipping operation, or customer service center - for no additional fee! Our Application Program Interfaces (APIs) provide U.S. Postal Service® rates, shipping labels and much more
Tags: api, aptbs, mac osx, search engines, simplicity, writing, xml
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Creative Commons links for 2009-01-08
Thursday, January 8th, 2009Tags: CC, copyright, creative commons
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