Posts by Russell Brown
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Thanks for pointing out the Blam Blam Blam stream Russell. I'm a little disappointed some of the songs were cut (Call for Help, Doctor Who off the top of my head). Do you know if there's any chance this stuff will see greater release? Should I feel bad about "archiving" the stream? Will there be some way I can pay for the tracks? Who do I ask?
There's a chance I'll be able to make one or two of the tracks available for download, but everyone's on holiday at the moment. Stay tuned.
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FFS, you're asking why a song should cost 2/3rds of the price of a coffee...
Or one quarter the price of a beer at the Rising Sun. Now that's a scandal ...
Point of interest: I've mentioned this before, but when you buy a paid download from any service, if it's on an independent label, you can safely assume the actual artist is receiving about twice a big a share as his or her major-label counterpart.
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Oh, and I've been meaning to post this for a few days.
Via RealClimate, The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change, a report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Center for a New American Security.
I'm not so sure about the subsequent Malthusian enthusing in some of the RealClimate comments, but the author list alone -- including former CIA director James Woolsey, former Chief of Staff to the President John Podesta and some very senior scientists -- should make it compulsory for anyone who presumes to pass comment on climate change. Like Tussock says, it's the rate of change.
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__Vote Green. Etc.__
I'm definitely tempted, but I have the feeling that they'd try to ban the Sun if they found out that it was nuclear powered.
I've said this before, but I've found my experience in trying to get to the bottom of the GE issue very helpful in assessing climate scepticism.
You see the same things: single studies quoted like gospel; science academies ignored; long-debunked talking points endlessly circulated; dubious characters getting lots of press; claims of conspiracy; science demonised.
And sometimes, even the same people.
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So we plebs should just bow down before your great wisdom and let the wise scientists dictate to us what is right and what is wrong as they look down on us from their great ivory towers? No thanks.
James, you sound like an adolescent.
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RB, your comments on the National Journal article? You have cited the Lancet study number frequently in your posts.
It's interesting and apparently fairly damning, but perhaps you should wait a bit before describing a single article as "proof positive" of "destruction".
One of the most vocal critics of the study is unhappy with the way some of his quotes were used, for example.
The credibility invested in the Lancet study was largely because it appeared to have been conducted according to well-established practice. If that turns out not to be case, its credibility will be diminished accordingly. It's not that complicated.
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From Wired:
The report that Sony BMG is moving to DRM-free downloads represents the music industry's white-flag concession that its copyright-protection scheme created a powerhouse in Apple's iTunes Store while failing to combat piracy ...
Michael Nash, a vice president of digital strategy for Warner, said Dec. 27 that the label was dumping DRM because it needed to counter the dominance of Apple, which since 2003 has sold more than 3 billion songs -- most of them coded with DRM that only plays on the popular iPod. DRM-free songs can be played on the more than 100 million iPods and iPhones already sold, but non-Apple DRM-coded downloads largely don't operate with Apple devices.
It just happened.
Meanwhile ...
Online music retailer eMusic -- which claims the second spot place behind Apple iTunes Store in the ranks of digital music services -- said that it had a banner holiday season for 2007. It surpassed its forecasts by 100 percent end ended the year with more than 400,000 paid subscribers ...
eMusic operates on a subscription basis -- users pay a monthly fee, which enables them to download a set number of songs per month, depending on how much they pay. But unlike Windows DRM-based music subscription services like Napster, eMusic sells all of its music in MP3 format, eschewing any sort of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology, so once you download a song, it's yours to keep, and it works on the Mac, PC, iPod, iPhone and any other MP3-capable device.
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Give a small compulsory cut of band revenue to songwriters. Done.
It's called a performance right and it's collected by APRA.
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I first heard a track by Arcade Fire on one, and fell in love (I have bought a ticket to BDO, just to hear their one hour set!)
The BDO timetable is up, and they've got a good slot: 6pm on the main stage.
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its a difficult balance but you can see why people would rather stay at home than spend 4 hours standing in the most run down bars in town being assaulted by unskilled sounds. (roughan is hardly unskilled but he is obviously out of touch with the wants of the audience)
He's an excellent engineer and a good bloke, but he's got a rep for mixing everything and everyone really loud. It just seemed really inappropriate for a band with all the lovely touches of BNRs.
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