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Archives for August 2010

The Daily Loper – Aug 30, 2010

August 30, 2010 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • Album Sales Hit Record Lows. Again.
    Oh, and music execs are blaming piracy. Again. Wonder if the quality of music they release is ever considered as a factor? Sure would explain why single track sales rise as album sales decline.
  • Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Sues Apple, AOL, Google, Facebook, Others
    Ah yes, another patent lawsuit. And timely too, what with some of these companies having used these technologies for a decade or so.

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The Daily Loper – Aug 26, 2010

August 26, 2010 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • Facebook Lawsuit Throws the -book at Social Networking Site for Teachers
    Sigh.

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You Guys Are Old

August 23, 2010 by Jim Connelly

You guys are old.

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The Daily Loper – Aug 23, 2010

August 23, 2010 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • Free That Tenor Sax
    Newly discovered classic jazz recordings remind us that copyright law remains a hot mess o’disaster.
  • Music in the Download Era: L.A.’s string of indie labels succeeds with a jack-of-all-trades approach
    A look at indie labels and how the playing field has leveled: The people who invented the paradigm and were trusted to run it let it run afoul. We have to fix it.
  • Kindle — xkcd Cartoon
    You know you can’t resist…

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The Daily Loper – Aug 19, 2010

August 19, 2010 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • Music royalty talks consider cell phone mandate
    Somehow cell phone manufacturers, an unrelated party, are now being dragged into the issue. The big plan? To force all new cell phones to carry an FM radio chip. Huh?
  • BBC lawyers fight to keep Top Gear’s The Stig secret
    Yes, this is the kind of important news that we focus on.

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15 Musical Moments To Die For

August 5, 2010 by Jim Connelly

So, really quickly, the ground rules. These aren’t about artists, or albums, or even songs, but rather, moments: that piece of a song that draws you into it; that piece of a song that you wait to happen again; that piece of a song that is running in your head when you can’t sleep; that piece of a song that you find yourself humming at inopportune times.

That piece of a song that you can’t live without.

This is the eleventh in a series: The first one had 25; the second one had 24; the third one had 23; the fourth one had 22; the fifth one had 21; the sixth had 20; the seventh had 19; the the eighth had 18; the the ninth had 17 and the tenth had 16.

You should go back and read the other ones. I’ll wait.

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Filed Under: Music, Musical Moments To Die For

Five Awesome Things – August 2, 2010

August 2, 2010 by Jim Connelly

OK, gonna try something here: a quick weekly list of five awesome things going on in the media, technology, pop culture, politics, sports, whatever happens to strike my fancy.

No real rules on this, except that whatever I put here has to be current, and it has to be something that I’m really liking right this second.

FIVE AWESOME THINGS – AUGUST 2, 2010

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Filed Under: Actual Mileage, Music, Social Media, Television

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