In this episode, I celebrate cc_Mixter.org using tracks from cc_Mixter itself! Now there’s a new genre you’ve never heard of!
Listen to the new Creative Commons Music Podcast episode at:
http://commonsflex.podbean.com/
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Posted in Uncategorized Episode 15 of The CommonsFlex Music Podcast is out. This time, we explore music from the Funk tradition. If that’s not your thing, try episodes 1-14 for an eclectic mix of music genres.
Check out the site: CommonsFlex Web Site
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Posted in Uncategorized I just posted Episode 14 of The CommonsFlex Music Podcast – Ray’s Favorites.
Check it out at: http://commonsflex.podbean.com
Posted in Podcasts For those of you who wonder about what all of the talk about hundreds of billions of dollars in Quantitative Easing means, check out this video. This guy has a number of videos up that explain the financial world in plain English.
Here are some links to the videos:
Derivatives: http://youtu.be/m3im-iJdhv4
Hedge Funds: http://youtu.be/ksLySMWRwLs
Quantitative Easing: http://youtu.be/ohKQP_wSO9k
Toxic Assets: http://youtu.be/06PwMyJY1vA
Link to the whole list of videos: MarketPlaceVideos
Comments OffI just posted episode 11 of The CommonsFlex Music Podcast – Blue Sunshine. Check it out at: http://commonsflex.podbean.com/ The exploration of musical Genres continues! – Ray
Posted in Uncategorized There’s a story going around the net about how Bon Jovi thinks that:
“Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business.” Here’s the MacStories.net link: http://bit.ly/gHRzFR
Now for my take…
What Bon Jovi has missed is the fact that ANY artist can be their own label now and get started with just one song. I suspect that Artists will eventually dis-intermediate labels completely and merely pay a distribution fee to carriers such as Apple. More money for them, more convenience for fans. What’s really being eliminated isn’t the magic – it’s the middlemen who were not adding any real value.
Also, don’t forget that the old system only gave record store shelf space to the elite and the chosen few. If you form a band today and record some tracks, those tracks can be online for free immediately. If you are patient, they can be online for sale in a few days to a Month. The old model was to sell cassettes from the trunk of your car!
Of course, indies won’t have the big money promotion machine on their side. They also won’t lose 95% of their recording revenues to the looters! How about keeping 70% of every sale instead? That’s what the new model promises.
Prey, don’t forget about the intermediate model that almost took hold: One guy buys an album at the store, uploads it and 10,000 people download it for free. Apple iTunes quickly made this method too painful and unreliable for most consumers. With a click and approximately 99 cents, bad audio quality, mislabeled songs, viruses, trojans, lawsuits from the RIAA, and broken hearts were eliminated. It simply became economical and upright for people to pay something for their music.
As for album covers and liner notes, isn’t a web site 10 times better? A web site offers the chance to actually interact with the band and other fans. Photos abound – both on the sites and as cover art displayed on digital devices.
Instead of the music business being dead, it’s been democratized. Perhaps the magic is just getting started for both fans and artists…
- Ray
Comments OffI just had a mega-headache after installing WordPress 3.1. The blog wouldn’t load when I visited the site! The problem is complicated, but let me run it down for you…
THE SYMPTOMS:
THE PROBLEM:
As I understand it, WordPress 3.1 has a change in permalinks behavior. This gives certain servers indigestion and results in an endless loop of redirects. The user’s experience is that: “the site won’t load”. In fact, it loads, and loads, and loads! The problem seems to affect IIS servers the most.
THE SOLUTION:
You COULD go back a version in WordPress – but that’s painful!
Instead, try going to your site /wp-admin and see if you can sign in.
Usually, the admin works OK.
Next, go to plugins and search for a new plugin:
Permalink Fix & Disable Canonical Redirects Pack
Install and activate that plugin.
Once activated, try visiting your site. If it works, yay! If not,
try these related links for more ideas:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-31-master-list
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-wont-load-since-upgrading-to-31
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/permalink-fix-disable-canonical-redirects-pack
Trouble tickets have been submitted. Interesting reading:
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16639
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16662
Whew! What a misadventure!
Posted in Tech News Got the post-Holiday blues? Check out one of my podcasts below for some entertainment:
The CommonsFlex Music Podcast
Music from the Public Domain and Creative Commons. This week, get Classy! with the old masters.
http://www.commonsflex.podbean.com/
Funny Right Now!
Your short-form, free smiles, possible LOL and occasional ROTFL comedy podcast!
http://funnyrightnow.podbean.com/
Tech Project 12
Tech news and views. New episode coming soon with info from CES.
http://www.techproject12.podbean.com/
The big deal this time of Year is the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Wired.com has some excellent video that makes you feel like you’re part of the crowd. They even ran into John Dvorak! http://bit.ly/iaRJmr
Comments OffYuehang Xu at et al at Columbia University have built a radio receiver using a Graphene trampoline. Check out MIT’s article at:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26194/
It seems like the technology has a long way to go before it shows up in a ham radio or cell phone near you. However, semiconductor devices started out as a crazy kludge in the 1940s. Those certainly turned out to be useful!
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