January 11, 2004

Music Industry Pins Hopes on Downloads (AP). AP - After four straight years of declining CD sales, the recording industry is hanging hopes for a recovery on music fans going digital — and being willing to pay for it. [Yahoo! News - Top Stories] 9:32:13 AM

Free Writing and Music - as in Speech. I'd like you all to take a moment to browse the Common Content catalog. It is a categorized index of work which has one of the several Creative Commons licenses. Free licenses aren't just for software anymore. The top-level categories in the index are images, movies, audio, text and web sites. I'm taking the trouble to recommend Common Content just now because I don't think either the catalog or the Creative Commons licenses are as well known as they deserve to be. [kuro5hin.org] 9:24:32 AM

Britcom clips online. BBC Comedy has posted dozens of clips from classic britcoms -- alas, in RealVideo instead of something useful like MPEG that could be readily cut up, turned into homemade animations, incorpoated into school-reports, etc. Still and all, funny stuff! * 2 Point 4 Children * Absolutely Fabulous * All Gas And Gaiters * 'Allo 'Allo! * Are You Being Served? * Black Adder, The * Blackadder II * Blackadder The Third * Blackadder Goes Forth Link (Thanks, Kim!) [Boing Boing Blog] 9:23:49 AM

Why tech firms are out of tune (BBC) [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 9:20:29 AM

Democratizing the Media Amen, and pass the "Digeconnix" Solution: Democratizing the Media, and More. The broadcast culture assumes that most of us are "consumers" of mass media. We are merely receptacles for what Hollywood, the music industry and even our local daily newspaper decide we should view, hear or read. The post-broadcast culture is a democratization of media, and it comes at things from the opposite stance. It says that anyone also can be a creator, not just a consumer. There's a world of difference. ... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 9:17:05 AM

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