The Inevitable Broadband Dilemma

Being that the time is coming for the US to institute a larger and more accommodating fiber network capable of providing higher speeds and more capacity to keep up with the ever increasing demand for direct over the network video streaming and storage of video...I would just like to add that this may not have happened so soon had corporations not taken to so many ads on any given site that you go to to read your news and get your information. Sure Youtube and Stage6 and truveo are hosting videos or linking to video content but the amount of ads on sites like myspace and the like are definitely not helping. Ads in my opinion are directly related to the misuse of the internet, turning it into a common marketplace which the net was never intended to be. Now as more space needed to advertise...net neutrality is going to be struck down, unfortunately and against the will of all the great people using the net for what its really meant to do....exchange information.

Burma

Burma ranks 164 of 168 states on press freedom

0.56% of population has internet access

25,000 people have official email addresses (2005)

Two state-controlled internet providers

"Pervasive" filtering of political websites

Sources: Reporters Without Borders, OpenNet Initiative

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Amazon Beta Released -DRM Free

So in the wake of embedding your credit card info into songs and Vivendi pulling its support for iTunes saying it's too expensive, and class action lawsuits against the RIAA due to frivolous lawsuits, along comes Amazon.com offering DRM free music for less than whats on iTunes. Maybe its time to rethink where you are buying your music from. Currently after checking out Amazon I found the selection to be a bit thin but like iTunes, I'm sure the more demand, the higher the supply and hopefully soon we'll see other labels moving into the forum where the consumer has the freedom of the actual purchase.

Yet another chapter in the ever thrashing saga of the deteriorating Music Industry all the while empowering the individual artist to seek open distribution of their creations while still making some money along the way.

When piracy is easier than purchase

"NBC's recent withdraw from the iTunes store leaves the millions of Apple's customers who have Macs or iPods without a legitimate way to purchase and watch NBC's content. Online media stores such as iTunes, Amazon and Walmart have never been able to compete with the pirates on price, or freedom and flexibility — as the content they sell is typically wrapped in restrictive DRM. The one advantage that legal purchase offered was ease of use. CNET looks into the issue, and discovers that with mature open-source media players such as Miro supporting BitTorrent RSS feeds, it is actually trivially easy for users to subscribe to their favorite shows. Want to wake up to the latest episode of The Colbert Report, Top Gear or any of hundreds of TV shows automatically downloaded and waiting for you? CNET offers an easy three step guide."

(Story taken from Slashdot)

New Inoyun track up

New track posted on my site called Blue Lengualeaf and its also up on em411

Filtering your Reality

Russian engineers/artists have produced goggles that allow you to filter what you see into an artistic experience. while most may think this is pointless, imagine the possibilities of changing your view of the world 8 times within the same minute with photoshop like filtration. Maybe used during a drug induced experience or turning the world around you into a different colorful experience. The link above will take you to a movie of the goggles in action. Simplistic and yet brilliant. Imagine music being able to change the shapes of the colors through the filters...whats next?

Dichotomy and perceptual distortions in absolute pitch ability

Mozart had it; Leonard Bernstein had it; even Jimi Hendrix reportedly had perfect pitch - the ability to recognise a musical note without a reference tone. Now it seems that orchestral tuning may be skewing note perception in people with this rare talent.Jane Gitshier at the University of California, San Francisco, and her colleagues identified 981 people with exceptional pitch-naming ability. However, these people often had trouble with G# and A#, misidentifying them as A.