"Indie artists who distribute through TuneCore can now purchase major label services from Universal on a flat-fee basis. Artists retain their rights and royalties while still benefiting from those Universal services they need, such as access to world-class recording studios and live performance help"
- diego morelli
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"In the presentation held by Hakia CEO dr. Berkan we find some key points: structured data is not equivalent to semantic technology. Simply organizing information in a database, to pull results for the search engines inside their SERP, it’s not making semantics....."
- diego morelli
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"I would hazard that, with more than 200m people on Facebook and even more with home internet access, we are all writing more than we would have ten years ago. Those who would never write letters (too slow and anachronistic) or postcards (too twee) now send missives with abandon, from long thoughtful memos to brief and clever quips about evening plans. And if we subscribe to the theory that the most effective way to improve one’s writing is by practicing—by writing more, and ideally for an audience—then our writing skills must be getting better."
- diego morelli
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"There’s been a bit of agnosticism in the air recently, and it reminded me of a popular argument against the existence of God. I think it’s a bad argument, and I’d like to try to set out why. For our purposes here, “God” can stand for any supernatural something at all — I’ll try to stay out of theology"
- diego morelli
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I want to ask you a question. Do you think some major events connected to "popular culture", whatever it may be, are actually shaping things, in our perspective/view of things/Weltanschauung whatsoever? I'm asking this because sometimes I feel connected to some kind of past where, notwithstanding the lack of tech, everyone seemed immediately to be...
everyone seemed immediately to be involved, on some issues, on a very large scale. What changed in the dynamics so far? Would be be glad to hear from you.
- diego morelli
The Open philosophy as applied to movies & animations deals with three related concepts: * open, collaborative projects maintained by a community; * open source software; * the copyleft / public domain side of the digital rights spectrum. ......
- diego morelli
According to the latest data from Hitwise about Twitter users in the UK, Twitter has become an important source of traffic for entertainment sites, other social networks, and news and media sites, but compared to other social networks, Twitter only sends a small amount of traffic to online retailers. Hitwise's Robin Goad also points out that... - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
"Ecology relates to the natural environment and trying to keep things in balance. Media ecology does the same thing -- only in media -- to try to balance the effects of new media and old media. Media can kill a culture just as much as an effluent from a factory can. Media ecology is a kind of cultural anthropology."
- diego morelli
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What is the Semantic Web really all about? - Web Science - the World of the World Wide Web - James Hendler's blog on Nature Network - http://network.nature.com/people...
"Just a few of the great:"outsider" minds that I've been inspired by lately include: Umair Haque Seth Godin Richard Florida Kevin Kelly Om Malickmment"
- diego morelli
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"It collects results from blog posts, articles and comments on famous blogging platforms and sites. It also serves results from status updates on Micro-blogging services like Twitter, Jaiku, Identica along with flickr results."
- diego morelli
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It looks interesting, but I can't ever get it to give me any results. Maybe I just don't wait long enough, but if it can't show me anything within 15-20 seconds, either it's not gonna or I'm not gonna wait around to find out. I mean, it's supposed to be "real time" after all. Or is it just me for some reason?
- Grey Drane
No, you're right. I've been trying it out today a couple of times, it's actually kind of slow.
- diego morelli