Monthly Archives: April 2007

The watering of Mike Daisey

Posted on 4/23/2007 by Ben

Marina and I went to see Mike Daisey‘s monologue show a couple of weeks ago and really enjoyed it. Last week, a group of 87 Christian teens and their parents and teachers walked out of the show, apparently upset about … Continue reading →

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Other Music Digital Music Store

Posted on 4/23/2007 by Ben

Other Music have launched their digital music store with DRM-free indie music downloads. Go grab yourself a copy of Neon Bible or Destroyer’s Rubies.

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Internet radio dealt severe blow as Copyright Board rejects appeal

Posted on 4/23/2007 by Ben

NPR challenged those Internet radio royalty rates at the CRB and lost. Only a favorable court ruling or congressional action will save net radio from becoming at best a commercial wasteland. Please visit SaveNetRadio.

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Dial A Human

Posted on 4/18/2007 by Ben

Dial A Human has instructions for getting directly to a human on dozens of customer service IVRs. No special tricks here, just the buttons to push without having to listen to the menus.

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Let’s Make Daniel Johnston #1

Posted on 4/4/2007 by Ben

Robert of the Radish has a noble goal of making Daniel Johnston #1 on Rhapsody. How hard can it be?

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Rushkoff Switches to Ubuntu

Posted on 4/3/2007 by Ben

Author Douglas Rushkoff gets frustrated with Windows Vista, installs Ubuntu and loves it. I felt like quoting this entire post but I’ll restrain myself. Yes, I’m working on it right now, and it makes even the Mac OS seem like … Continue reading →

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DRM-free Music From iTunes

Posted on 4/2/2007 by Ben

Apple and EMI will be releasing EMI’s entire catalog as DRM-free, higher-quality audio files in May. They’ll cost extra, $1.29, but the album price is the same. This is really great news! [via Boing Boing]

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