Saturday, December 13, 2003

Rocking xmas tune. While browsing through hours of free music (with an intent to buy) at Magnatune, I came across the electro sitar stylings of Anup. He's got that whole "sitars over beats" thing down that all the club kids are nuts for... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 12:24:46 AM     We Need a Test Case Soon. Free music at LegalTorrents "LegalTorrents is a new site offering 5Gb of electronic music from a variety of labels, all licensed under Creative Commons. What makes this site unique is the large downloads are shared among everyone downloading, thanks to the P2P technology of BitTorrent. Once you download a client and load up a music torrent file, you'll be downloading the file from everyone that has downloaded the file, and as you gather data others will be downloading from you. It's an incredible technology meant to share large file downloads like these music archives and things such as linux distributions. The technology also has a checkered past due to its use for sharing illegal files, hence the name of the site, LegalTorrents." [Creative Commons: weblog] Hmmm... so could a subset of these files (or a similar one) be a starter collection of MP3 music files for a library to use to test and offer downloads directly from an online catalog? We have to start somewhere and figure out how best to integrate this type of service before our patrons begin demanding it. [The Shifted Librarian] 12:14:14 AM     Xeni on NPR's "Day to Day": Holiday gizmo-shopping. On today's edition of the NPR radio program "Day to Day," host Alex Chadwick and I talk tips about which of this holiday season's crop of electronic gadgets will make great gifts. This week: Words of advice when shopping for portable DVD players, mobile MP3 players, and universal remotes. In next week's show, more gadget fun. Link, audio stream will be available after 12PM Pacific. [Boing Boing Blog] 12:11:28 AM

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