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Patronage is not a new thing in art. Go get some experimental films of the 70's, or experimental art works that included music at the same time (John Cage, even Brian Eno, etc) and take a look at the credits about who paid for the work. Everyone is so ingrained in one structure for how things should work, the broader picture both current and historical is much more interesting. And for the record, I was talking about art, not music in that post. About how its hard to value music when the value of art in other forms (visual, performance, etc) is so diminished in the nanny/teach-for-testing/tabloid state we live in. As a former art student I find that depressing.

[From Muxtape gets shut down. Pandora might get shut down. Everyone is pissed off. A call for patronage. » VentureBeat]

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This is by far one of my favorite films ever made. If anyone out there reading this has any interest in formal vs. mechanized aesthetics, this film is for you. The perfect play on the environment/nature with the mechanic. The film is much longer than this clip and is very hypnotic in full, especially on a big screen.

[From Media Art Net | Snow, Michael: The Central Region]

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Not to join the chorus: but the Internet kind of renders "spoilers" meaningless, especially as related to artificially imposed time-zone restrictions. TechCrunch just wanted some traffic. Poor techcrunch.

[From CNN Fails To Include Spoiler Alert In Tweets, Ruins Olympics]

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This is funny actually. I had the recordings for Accelerate roughly 8 months before the record's release (demos) and then the album about 4 months prior or more. I was so paranoid about it that I'd take the ipod with me everywhere (ie, not leave in the glove box when valeting the car) and not play it too loud at our house. I'm actually surprised this hasn't happened more frequently via people hanging out by record companies patios and such. If someone were to stalk outside my house right now they'd only hear the Gin Blossom's, sorry.

[From U2 Tracks Leak After Bono Plays Stereo Too Loudly | TorrentFreak ]

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Question here is: why don't they switch to a smaller, more web-friendly site? Why is that so hard for publishing companies to get: your sites suck.

[From The Classic Rock Magazine Is Switching to a Smaller, Rack-Friendly Size - NYTimes.com]

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"Bertis Downs is very positive about his longstanding relationship with Warner. “They have a great team led by Ethan Kaplan. He’s very young - under 30 - and very much a techie. Warner realize their entire company - not just the new media department – but the whole company now has to embrace this.”

[From Music Ally | Blog Archive » USA Today: The shape of digital, Stateside ]"

Wow, thanks Bertis :)

I think the key to technology within labels is to embrace what is afforded to us through what progress has brought rather than run from it. In the past, new technology was treated as a "how can we stop it, how can we capitalize on it." I (and my colleagues and my boss) view technology with the notion of how it extends the art and artists that we represent.

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For all the shit talking I've done about tech journalism, Marshall Kirkpatrick has been a nice counter-point to the regurgitation and rehashing that plagues most technology blogs. Good show.

[From Will The Semantic Web Have a Gender? - ReadWriteWeb]

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I'm going to be a puddle of smiles and happiness when I see this movie.

[From Apple - Movie Trailers - Patti Smith - Dream of Life]

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In three years this will be like those corporate "in 1995 we'll have talking computers" videos. And "written and directed by" credits on a corporate demo video? A bit much.

[From Adaptive Path Releases Aurora To “Inspire And Engage” Community]

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I'm sure Craigslist could raise the necessary capital to buy newspapers and possibly even whole newspaper chains. However, the telling point is that they are not.

[From Market Place - Newspapers Could Be Bargains, but Few Are Buying - NYTimes.com]

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