tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105390072024-03-13T14:02:34.886+13:00DJAlloy Rants & RavesA site of musings by a heavy user of electronic music equipmentDJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-25416280806461083272009-12-03T10:06:00.004+13:002009-12-03T10:14:46.138+13:00Live perfomance November 2009<object width="290" height="180"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/klzEiWLRRWI&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/klzEiWLRRWI&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="290" height="180"></embed></object>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-54933067422671669362009-02-03T15:31:00.000+13:002009-02-03T15:32:52.379+13:00ScaryCurrently in Afghanistan and Iraq, there are over 12,000 unmanned robots on the ground, fighting the war on terror. There will be more. This may make human soldiers unnecessary. <br /><br />From a book review /precis on http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594201986/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-27858400074859451642008-04-14T17:39:00.001+12:002008-04-14T17:39:57.146+12:00Alloy live at the New Zealand 2008 Laptop Battle<object width="425" height="373"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NKQfyiHS98A&hl=en&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NKQfyiHS98A&hl=en&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="373"></embed></object>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-63301800874463453412008-03-03T03:25:00.002+13:002008-03-03T03:31:47.983+13:00Copies and value<blockquote cite="chrome://flock/content/shelf/notesSidebar.xul">As copies have been dethroned, the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies lose value. They are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connection, and sharing are. Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways to recall, annotate, personalize, edit, authenticate, display, mark, transfer, and engage a work. Authors and artists can make (and have made) their livings selling aspects of their works other than inexpensive copies of them. They can sell performances, access to the creator, personalization, add-on information, the scarcity of attention (via ads), sponsorship, periodic subscriptions—in short, all the many values that cannot be copied. The cheap copy becomes the “discovery tool” that markets these other intangible valuables.<br /><br />from "Scan This Book!" by Kevin Kelly /New York Times Magazine<br />http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=bot;cc=bot;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=5283331.0002.001;node=5283331.0002.001%3A6<br /></blockquote><p class="citation"><cite cite="chrome://flock/content/shelf/notesSidebar.xul"><a href="chrome://flock/content/shelf/notesSidebar.xul"></a></cite></p><p style="text-align: right; font-size: 8px;">Blogged with <a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" title="Flock" target="_new">Flock</a></p>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-77841245915014331192007-10-29T15:31:00.000+13:002007-10-29T15:34:24.637+13:00UkeTubeAnd from my home town and all!<br /><br /><object height="373" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vOm5hXZ_UsA&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&border=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vOm5hXZ_UsA&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="373" width="425"></embed></object>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-15234012709656570672007-10-05T15:30:00.000+13:002007-10-05T15:32:26.836+13:00Finger size!<a href="http://www.mohammadi.ca/photos/displayimage.php?album=17&pos=15"><img src="http://www.mohammadi.ca/photos/albums/userpics/10001/fingersizecreatures09uk1.jpg" border="0" height="375" width="500" /></a>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-26712182918897246462007-10-02T17:00:00.000+13:002007-10-04T18:00:04.819+13:00New TRIP TO THE MOON album released<h2 style="font-family:Bank Gothic;"><big><big>NEW ALBUM "<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Welcome to the Big Room</span>" out now</big></big></h2>Check it out at <a href="http://jazzscore.com/">http://jazzscore.com/</a>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-50043055073490073592007-10-02T16:50:00.000+13:002007-10-02T16:59:52.329+13:00Try out my new Mac music software downloads feed!<script type="text/javascript" src="http://del.icio.us/feeds/js/djalloy/dwnld?extended;title=Cool%20Mac%20downloads%21;icon=rss"></script><br /><noscript><a href="http://del.icio.us/djalloy/dwnld">Cool Mac downloads!</a></noscript>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-1169593431975462942007-01-24T12:03:00.000+13:002007-01-24T12:03:52.660+13:00New Trip video on YouTube<object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/A-CVQRLnofU"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/A-CVQRLnofU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-1168091444206617112007-01-07T02:48:00.000+13:002007-01-07T02:51:07.450+13:00ALLOY "Electrum" now on YouTubeElectrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver.<br /><br />Check out the video!<br /><br /><object height="350" width="425"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Dtm5hi_VXTE"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Dtm5hi_VXTE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="350" width="425"> </object>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-1167692499460366312007-01-02T12:00:00.000+13:002007-01-02T12:03:50.916+13:00Yet more ALLOY on YouTube - "Stellite Sky"<object height="350" width="425"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VMeHaX0bSZ4"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VMeHaX0bSZ4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="350" width="425"> </object>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-1167275485579173742006-12-28T16:10:00.001+13:002006-12-28T16:17:30.923+13:00YouTube<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">It's said that if you put a million monkeys at a million typewriters, eventually you will get the works of William Shakespeare. When you put together a million humans, a million camcorders, and a million computers, what you get is YouTube. <p>And there they are, in the bedrooms and dorms and cubicles of the world, uploading their asses off, more than 65,000 times a day on YouTube alone.</p> <p>"If you aren't posting, you don't exist," says Rishad Tobaccowala, CEO of Denuo, a new media consultancy. "People say, 'I post, therefore I am.'"</p> <p>(Wired magazine <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/youtube.html">http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/youtube.html)</a></p> <p style="text-align: right; font-size: 8px;">Blogged with <a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" target="_new" title="Flock">Flock</a></p></div>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-1166497916974366622006-12-19T16:11:00.002+13:002006-12-19T16:17:32.306+13:00More Alloy on YouTube<object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-EABF0TJO2U"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-EABF0TJO2U" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-1166368111725783292006-12-18T04:07:00.000+13:002006-12-18T04:22:01.153+13:00New Alloy video on YouTubeNew video - check it out!<br /><br /><object height="350" width="425"><br /><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8kNKXlGiV2M"><br /><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8kNKXlGiV2M" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="350" width="425"><br /><br /></object>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-1165203004184520532006-12-04T16:30:00.000+13:002006-12-04T21:55:26.443+13:00Video remix<object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cqx_ODpq4bU"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cqx_ODpq4bU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-1164528472241579552006-11-26T21:07:00.000+13:002006-11-26T21:07:52.966+13:00Bongo Nation Site BlogI now have a sidestream of recurring bloggery on the Bongo Nation band website: <a href="http://jazzscore.com/bongonation/blog/index.html">Bongo Nation Site Blog</a>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-1163975015313701112006-11-20T11:21:00.000+13:002006-11-20T11:23:35.590+13:00Make way for the Meganiche!"I define a meganiche as a thin slice of the Web that nonetheless represents roughly a million users. The meganiche is something new, and it will have a lasting impact on online business and culture."<br /><br />Read the rest here: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/meganiche.htmlDJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-1163455847673766142006-11-14T11:10:00.000+13:002006-11-14T11:13:48.986+13:00Bongo ArtHere are some pix generated when working on the Bongo Nation videos<a title="yes4.JPEG" href="http://flickr.com/photos/32546556@N00/277282312" ><img src="http://static.flickr.com/102/277282312_f4334d03f2_d.jpg" border="1"/></a><br /><a title="bongovideo5.JPEG" href="http://flickr.com/photos/32546556@N00/277282205" ><img src="http://static.flickr.com/114/277282205_12df82d010_d.jpg" border="2"/></a><br /><a title="Diamond10.JPEG" href="http://flickr.com/photos/32546556@N00/277276429" ><img src="http://static.flickr.com/95/277276429_dafb5ea7d4_d.jpg" border="3"/></a><br /><a title="Diamond11.JPeG" href="http://flickr.com/photos/32546556@N00/277276542" ><img src="http://static.flickr.com/83/277276542_22c2623d98_d.jpg" border="4"/></a><a title="Diamond13.JPEG" href="http://flickr.com/photos/32546556@N00/277276724" ><img src="http://static.flickr.com/104/277276724_d219e9d4f6_d.jpg" border="5"/></a>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-1163372175164807572006-11-13T11:55:00.000+13:002006-11-20T11:25:31.936+13:00More experiments using FlockHere I am again trying to drag and drop media from other web sites.<br /><br /><a title="DSC03283.JPG" href="http://flickr.com/photos/32546556@N00/277296606" ><img src="http://static.flickr.com/120/277296606_1af21e5683_d.jpg" border="0"/></a><br /><br />That's a photo from a recent trip to FijiDJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-1163320119118092252006-11-12T21:21:00.002+13:002006-11-12T21:30:01.966+13:00Your own broadcast - ?<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29543">MyTunesRSS 2.3.1 - VersionTracker:</a> <br/> <p>"MyTunesRSS is 100% pure Java, i.e. it runs on any system with Java1.5 and up. You start MyTunesRSS which includes an embedded Tomcatserver. On this server you can access a web application with anybrowser which lets you search your iTunes library by title and/orartists. Then you can create an RSS feed or an M3U playlist from theresults.</p> <p>Any device capable of receiving RSS feeds or M3Uplaylists can get the songs from your iTunes library through the feed.For example the Playstation Portable can play songs from your iTuneslibrary over WLAN with this application."</p> <p><i>I'll give it a test drive...</i><br/> </p> <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/32546556@N00/277985195" title="t269general.jpeg"><img border="0" src="http://static.flickr.com/88/277985195_e72eed6466_m.jpg"/></a><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/32546556@N00/277985181" title="t971web_portal.jpeg"><img border="0" src="http://static.flickr.com/114/277985181_6467f89ea0_m.jpg"/></a><p/></div>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-1163319843653990032006-11-12T21:16:00.005+13:002006-11-12T21:27:21.810+13:00the HARM<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/32546556@N00/277272516" title="BNclip14.JPEG"><img border="0" src="http://static.flickr.com/102/277272516_f0591bc021_m.jpg"/></a></div>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-1163131762419191102006-11-10T17:08:00.000+13:002006-11-10T17:09:23.206+13:00Bongo Nation "Diamonds" video<object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7hrty5M2408"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7hrty5M2408" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-1161658070049517612006-10-24T15:40:00.002+13:002006-10-24T15:49:57.346+13:00grrr<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/32546556@N00/277298014" title="DSC03110.JPG"><img border="0" src="http://static.flickr.com/116/277298014_e3863749ee_m.jpg"/></a><br/> Where are all the trees??<br/> <p style="text-align: right; font-size: 8px">Blogged with <a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" target="_new" title="Flock">Flock</a></p></div>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-1161656600087460742006-10-24T15:16:00.003+13:002006-10-24T15:44:00.300+13:00Testing testing...<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>I'm test driving the new 'Flock" browser, to see how 'blog-friendly' it is.</p> <p>I dragged this picture in from my Flickr account...<br/> </p> <p><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/32546556@N00/277276490" title="bonlogo1a.JPEG"><img border="0" src="http://static.flickr.com/101/277276490_5b97938e81_m.jpg"/></a></p> <p>Here is the URL to the BONGO NATION Myspace homepage: <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=111338150">http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=111338150</a></p> <p>BONGO NATION are Geordie Gardiner and Tom Ludvigson playing their ownroots reggae and dub inspired repertoire. The roots of the BONGO NATIONproject go back to early summer 2005 when Geordie and Tom were on tourin Northland with an Auckland reggae band. Inspired by that experience,Tom spent the rest of that summer tracing the roots of Jamaican dub toAfrican drum music while writing his own BONGO NATION riddims.As the collection of new riddims grew Tom created the BONGO NATIONwebsite and started posting recordings of the new riddims on the web.By early autumn Geordie had joined the project, the duo now jamming onthe BONGO NATION riddims and letting them grow into songs.Towards then end of winter there was enough new BONGO NATION songs torecord and produce an EP. Recording sessions were held in August 2006at Aucklands Rockynook Studios. The outcome of these sessions was thefour songs that make up the BONGO NATION EP Good Vibration. <br/> </p> <p>(dragged straight off the web - now to publish to see if it worked...)</p> <p><br/> </p> <p><br/> </p> <p><br/> </p> - now to publish to see if it worked...)<p/><p><br/> </p> <p><br/> </p> <p><br/> </p> <p style="text-align: right; font-size: 8px">Blogged with <a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" target="_new" title="Flock">Flock</a></p></div>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539007.post-1161560737162090832006-10-23T12:38:00.001+13:002006-10-23T12:45:37.166+13:00Brave New World<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><blockquote cite="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/cloudware.html">Today Google rules a total database of hundreds of petabytes, swelled every 24 hours by terabytes of Gmails, MySpace pages, and dancing-doggy videos – a relentless march of daily deltas, each larger than the whole Web of a decade ago. </blockquote><p class="citation"><cite cite="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/cloudware.html"><a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/cloudware.html">Wired 14.10: The Information Factories</a></cite></p> <p/><p/><p style="text-align: right; font-size: 8px">Blogged with <a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" target="_new" title="Flock">Flock</a></p></div>DJ Alloyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678441133049961043noreply@blogger.com0