Comments on: Lecture

By: Idetrorce

Idetrorce — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:57:19 +0000

very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce

By: Mike Davidson

Mike Davidson — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 06:41:36 +0000

Netscape Now!

You remember 1996. You had e-mail. Your friends didn’t. You could Yahoo. Your friends couldn’t. It was a time when most of the world spent less time online than they did eating breakfast. Two of the standout successes during this early stage of…

By: biz

biz — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:12:47 +0000

I am teaching a class on the history of 80s American punk/indie/underground music. My students recently had to write a paper on technology and how they use it to find new music. (A good portion of the class we talked about the community that built up around punk bands and how you had to seek out new music).

The majority of them mentioned MySpace in their paper. Two or three (out of fifteen) don’t see the point in paying for music. The majority of them use file sharing sites and MySpace to find new music and then buy the music, either in CD form or via iTunes. Many of those who buy the music in some form said at one time they had downloaded music as opposed to buying the CDs but they stopped because they felt the arists deserved to be paid for their music. Two out of the fifteen will almost always buy the CD as opposed to buying it via iTunes as they want the packaging. One of them does not really use technology because she relies on others to introduce her to new music.

The majority of them have some sort of MP3 player. One of them, one of the three or four serious music geeks in the class, refuses to buy an iPod or other type of player. He likes the feeling of having the physical CDs and of hauling the CDs around with him wherever he goes. He sees it as a badge of honor.

One student has an iPod and downloads some music via iTunes. She made the point that the Internet and sites like iTunes and MySpace have made it easier for her to access new music and for friends to recommend new music. Yet, while technology makes it easier to find new music, it makes separates her from the music she loves. In the past she found new music by going to shows or searching for music through other means. By using the Internet to find new music it takes her out of that music environment and away from bands and away from the physical aspect of music.

It was probably the most interesting assignment I have assigned them.

By: Fads…. at Bruton Garden

Fads…. at Bruton Garden — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:51:56 +0000

[...] Ethan Kaplan on technology at UCFB: Oh, Iâ€™ll write about this later, but an interesting thing regarding â€œshow of handsâ€ surveys during lecture: [...]

By: Olirockerdude’s Blog » Blog Archive » Time for a Survay

Olirockerdude’s Blog » Blog Archive » Time for a Survay — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:39:38 +0000

[...] I’m so interested in the results I blogged yesterday from the post on blackrimglasses.com that I have decided to go to school today and conduct my own similar survay asking whether or not students at my school have heared of web 2.0 services such as Flickr. delicious, last FM etc. [...]

By: Olirockerdude

Olirockerdude — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:49:08 +0000

These are really interesting statistics, I’ve blogged my opinion of them on my site. They’re entirely valid statistics for my secondary school in York, UK. MySpace is HUGE here and services such as delicious are unheared of. I really wish people (especially young people) would explore the web more and check out some of the great services that are out there. The fact that nobody had paid for an Artic Monkeys album doesn’t suprise me, again, virtually everybody I know uses either Limewire or eMule for getting hold of anything good heared on the radio.

Cool stuff!

By: Street Lessons » Ethan Kaplan’s day at University of California Santa Barbara reveals some really interesting stuff.

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:14:57 +0000

[...] Ethan Kaplan, the director of technology for Warner Bros Records gave a lecture at University of California Santa Barbara and came to realize some interesting things – [...]

By: William Reading

William Reading — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 00:27:40 +0000

Well, I don’t know how useful I’ll be as a data point, but as a college student, I fall into the following groups:

- I don’t have a MySpace profile, but I don’t buy into that. I have a leased server in a datacenter that I use instead.
- I have a FaceBook profile, but only because you must have one to read others.
- I subscribe to the Digg RSS feed and read it nearly daily
- I subscribe to the BoingBoing RSS feed as well and occasionally visit some of the other places
- I’ve never heard of the Artic Monkeys, though they’re pretty popular according to Wikipedia. (I don’t watch tv or listen to the radio)
- I’ve bought music via the iTunes Music Storage and SharpMusic, which enables the purchase of AAC songs without a DRM wrapper, so that I can do things like listen to them on my Xbox
- I’ve heard of the Sony DRM scandal

By: Cole Camplese

Cole Camplese — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:34:14 +0000

With regard to the informal student polls, I get much the same thing in my classes. I will add that 100% own cell phones, while only 70% own MP3 players … students are interesting these days in that they are so technical (in that they can use the stuff), but very few really clasify themselves as technical. Most consider themselves novices in the real use of technology … but, when you look at them they are all on facebook, on IM, and downloading stuff. I am looking forward to the slides.

By: Jonathan Foley

Jonathan Foley — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:20:42 +0000

Via you I just discovered NewsVine and memorandum, they both got Delcious’s and their RSS feeds got added to Rojo, my web based RSS reader. I am a total news junky, I dont know how I missed these, thanks!