Archive for the ‘Web2.0’ Category

Creative Commons links for 2009-01-08

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Wildflowers on a trail, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, USA

  • 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.
  • 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.

A Place ot Bury Strangers & some neat Web 2.0 tools for 2009-01-05

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Woods off the screen porch at home, Falmouth, VA, USA

  • 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!
    (tags: aptbs oliver)
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.

Some neat Web 2.0 tools, ECAR study of IT & Undergraduates, & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-01-04

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

Roots in the creek at home, Falmouth, VA, USA

Tenure in the Digital Age, Zotero, & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-12-11

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

flower, front garden, Falmouth, VA, USA

  • New tools for analyzing information are arriving every day, but that doesn’t mean scholars who use them well are being rewarded, says Christine L. Borgman, a professor of information studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. She contends that the new “scholarly information infrastructure” must be shaped with collaborative, interdisciplinary research.
  • Zotero is a research tool, developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, that provides users with automated access to bibliographic information for online resources. Zotero “senses” bibliographic information contained in a web page and—when the user clicks an icon—gathers that information and places it in the user’s library of sources, where users can manage and search those sources. By automating the tasks of gathering, managing, and citing online references, Zotero facilitates a more efficient research process.
  • A Place to Bury Strangers

  • If tonight’s turn out was anything to go by, they already have a widespread appeal - everyone from overgrown NME and Drowned in Sound readers to older Q-reading beardy musos and a few electro kids with silly hair (Vice?) were in the sold out crowd tonight. Hell, I think I even saw a few proper (ish) punks throwing themselves around tonight (they don’t read, just break stuff).

Friendbo & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-11-27

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Pond in Warsaw, VA

  • 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

  • Hiotly tipped Brooklyn headline trio blend Cure-ish bass lines and Joy Division-styled guitars to moodily groovy,
    (tags: aptbs uk)
  • 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.

Privacy & Google, Web 2.0 StoryTelling & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-11-06

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

in Muir Woods, California

  • ASK GOOGLE TO PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY
  • 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

  • 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!
  • 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.
    (tags: aptbs review)
  • “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: aptbs uk review)

PHP Web Gallery, Mimimal HTML, & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-09-24

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

tree & rocks, Portland, OR

    PHP Web Gallery   

  • PhpWebGallery is a free and open source software used to present photo collections on your web site.
  • Mimimal HTML

  • 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.
    (tags: web html)
  • A Place to Bury Strangers

  • 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.
    (tags: aptbs colorado)
  • 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.
    (tags: aptbs uk)
  • 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
    (tags: aptbs chicago)
  • 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: aptbs colorado)

TED Talks, surface area & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-09-12

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Gran Morne Northern Peninsula, Newfoundland

Travel Tools & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-08-19

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Beech leaves, winter, falmouth, va
Travel Tools

A Place to Bury Strangers

A Place to Bury Strangers, Useful Lists, Using a Mac, and other links for 2008-07-20

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Nova Scotia, Cabot Trail