"“While many smart artists — big, medium and small — have figured out ways to adjust and give fans what they want, record labels themselves still don’t seem to have understood,” says Masnick, adding: “Instead they want government and ISPs to punish fans, hoping that this will somehow, magically, get people to buy products they’ve shown no interest in buying for quite some time.”"
- diego morelli
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"irON is an abstract notation and associated vocabulary for specifying RDF triples and schema in non-RDF forms. Its purpose is to allow users and tools in non-RDF formats to stage interoperable datasets using RDF. The notation supports writing RDF and schema in JSON (irJSON), XML (irXML) and comma-delimited (CSV) formats (commON). The surprising thing about irON is that — by following its simple conventions and vocabulary — you will be authoring and creating interoperable RDF datasets without doing much different than your normal practice."
- diego morelli
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"So what is the solution? What you want is some sort of a personal site with all your own data. Then the data can be connected to other data by search engines. For that we need a way to say on a site to explain to search engines what some piece of data represents (eg genealogy, foto & place & data). One of the technologies which can do this is RDFa, it's like a CSS of meaning. This improves search and user experience; it improves services; and aggregators can create value by joining data."
- diego morelli
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"- Semantic Radar: Displays a status bar icon to indicate presence of Semantic Web data in the web page. It recognises FOAF, SIOC, RDFa, DOAP. - Operator: Lets you combine pieces of information on Web sites with applications in ways that are useful........"
- diego morelli
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"This hypertext book explores the psychological aspects of environments created by computers and online networks. It presents an evolving conceptual framework for understanding how people react to and behave within cyberspace: what I call "the psychology of cyberspace""
- diego morelli
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"Scambioetico is the Italian movement for the decriminalization of P2P and the defense of net neutrality, a part of the European Coalition Opennet, and REFF, explains Scambioetico press officer Gianfranco in an email to a2f2a.com co-founder Billy Bragg."
- diego morelli
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"The turn from groups to social networks lays the basis for a new social operating system Being more civically engages on social networks helps building better communities Both volume and variety of information grow Venues of intersecting with information and peoplle multiply, and the availability of information expands to all hours of the day and all places we are..."
- diego morelli
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Burroughs describes the meeting… “I waited and Kurt got out with another man. Cobain was very shy, very polite, and obviously enjoyed the fact that I wasn’t awestruck at meeting him. There was something about him, fragile and engagingly lost. He smoked cigarettes but didn’t drink. There were no drugs. I never showed him my gun collection.”
- diego morelli
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"If ghosts always exist, then they are simply physical creatures and can be handled like any other physical creature (i.e. subject to our scientific laws). If they have no physical existence, then they must be undetectable."
- diego morelli
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"A new blog is officially online for discussing music on the Web, with debates on payments to artists and issues related to copyright. It’s called a2f2a (artists to fans to artists)....."
- diego morelli
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