Scary

Currently 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.

From a book review /precis on http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594201986/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=

Alloy live at the New Zealand 2008 Laptop Battle

Copies and value

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.

from "Scan This Book!" by Kevin Kelly /New York Times Magazine
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

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UkeTube

And from my home town and all!

Finger size!

New TRIP TO THE MOON album released

NEW ALBUM "Welcome to the Big Room" out now

Check it out at http://jazzscore.com/

Try out my new Mac music software downloads feed!

New Trip video on YouTube

ALLOY "Electrum" now on YouTube

Electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver.

Check out the video!

Yet more ALLOY on YouTube - "Stellite Sky"

YouTube

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.

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.

"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.'"

(Wired magazine http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/youtube.html)

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More Alloy on YouTube

New Alloy video on YouTube

New video - check it out!

Video remix

Bongo Nation Site Blog

I now have a sidestream of recurring bloggery on the Bongo Nation band website: Bongo Nation Site Blog

Make 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."

Read the rest here: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/meganiche.html

Bongo Art

Here are some pix generated when working on the Bongo Nation videos

More experiments using Flock

Here I am again trying to drag and drop media from other web sites.



That's a photo from a recent trip to Fiji

Your own broadcast - ?

MyTunesRSS 2.3.1 - VersionTracker:

"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.

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."

I'll give it a test drive...

the HARM