Jaron Lanier, the Original Virtual Realist (respect!) writing on the TED conference, makes an interesting point about how technology is shifting as it becomes more established: When the conference began in the 1980s, nerds were on the rise. Brilliant young innovators, often shunned at high school, w...

It’s Oscars weekend, and yes, we have a West Seattle Oscars party (trivia! prizes!) - along with a poetry reading tonight, two Saturday events that could change your financial future, plus the chance to meet an “American Gladiator,” among more than three dozen events ahead in this ...

p2pnet news | Music:- A little more a year ago, “Qtrax says it has deals with Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA, members of the Big 4 organised music cartel, just like other corporate efforts to cash in on the online music phenomenon,” reported p2pnet. But, Warne...

=== HAPPY NEW YEAR!=== THE OLD YEAR PASSES-- COME SALUTE THE COMING YEAR ...on the Last Night of 2008 ! ! ! ! ! WEDNESDAY, Dec. 31st! ==PRESENTED ON OUR ALL-NEW STAGE== AT The Famous Chez Poulet Gallery-Cabaret where SHOWTIME-- more or less-- BEGINS at around =9:00 PM= THE SLAPDOWN-- Admission: $10 ...

I hope I can make this an occasional series. Categories will be multifarious. Yeah, She Annoys Me, Too: Virginia Heffernan on Sarah Vowell ("She delivers a farrago of free-floating pedantry . . . Vowell’s whole alt-­everything vibe is just dated enough to be cringey. . . . With all these middlebr...

After being outed today as a posterboy for Andrew Orlowski’s “League of the Clueless” I had an interesting and sobering conversation with a colleague in the music business. In his particular genre (drum & bass), the explosion of cheaper (or pirated) tools to create music, the ...

It's been amusing to watch folks like Andrew Orlowski continue to misinterpret Chris Anderson's slight admission that things in "the long tail" aren't exactly they way he'd predicted them to be. Of course, Orlowski entirely misses the point by assuming incorrectly (as many others have done) that the...

p2pnet news view | Music:- “Baidu is renowned as China’s glittering internet success story, and as the start-up that gave Google a bloody nose,” writes Andrew Orlowski in The Register, going on: “It dominates the web in the world’s second biggest economy with 70 per cen...

(For those of you who complain that these status updates don’t really count as proper blog entries, here’s another piece from the Linux User & Developer backpage back catalog: Slower, Pussycat, Kill, Kill. Oh, and this week’s Irish Times column on Dan Kaminsky is briefly out o...

Britain could be about to follow South Korea and offer a proper, licensed peer-to-peer network, as a result of government banging together heads of record companies and ISPs: The co-operation follows the intervention of "Brown's Fist", the former advisor and Parliamentary Under-Secretary at BERR (th...