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ISP Music Tax?
March 28, 2008 - 9:59am — duncanI don't like this idea at all. I can see this "tax" appearing and musicians not seeing a dime of it. The royalty system of radio stations and TV reporting what they play is broken enough, how is a tax from my ISP going to ever find its way to independent but Published musicians? This stinks of desperation on the part of the RIAA.
"Warner Music Group has big plans to license its music to ISPs, as part of an overall industry plan the label hopes will materialize let people share unlimited music without infringing on content.
Essentially, you'd pay a sort of "music tax" through your ISP that would be divided among labels and artists depending on whose music was played or downloaded the most."
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Computer games hidden in Vinyl
June 19, 2007 - 10:25am — duncan
In the late 70's and early 80's record companies hid computer programs on a few different records. You would record the data onto a cassete and load it into a Spectrum computer and you'd have a Thompson Twins video game to play.
Mozilla grants $100k to Participatory Culture Foundation
June 1, 2007 - 5:01pm — duncanThis is great for Participatory Culture Foundation, congratulations!
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"In our last board meeting, it was decided that Mozilla would give a $100,000 grant to the Participatory Culture Foundation, the makers of the Democracy Player. PCF, like CC, aligns well with Mozilla and its manifesto. Additionally, PCF has projects that are built partly on Mozilla’s technology."
New Democracy Player Released
February 13, 2007 - 9:40pm — duncanThe new version of the Democracy Player was just released. This is such a cool piece of software for anyone who watches video on the web. I think the website says it best.
"It's pretty simple. You get a better internet video experience with Democracy Player because you can do more and you can do it more easily. Some people call it a 'TiVo for the internet' or a 'Firefox for videos'.
Democracy Player is free, open source, and built by a non-profit organization. Our goal isn't to make money off of you. Our goal is to give you the best possible video experience."
And if it isn't enough that it is a cool piece of free, open source software, they are based out of the mighty Worcester MA.
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Nicholas Reville talks about tech, freedom, Worcester
Nicholas Reville talks about tech, freedom, Worcester
October 24, 2006 - 11:17am — delnieve
Nicholas Reville, of Worcester's non-profit Participatory Culture Foundation, talked with WCCA this week about the Democracy media player, free culture, and Worcester.
I wish everybody in the city knew about the great work these folks are doing.
(This program is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.)
Download the mp4 video (76MB) or see other formats. You can subscribe via Democracy.
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Democracy Player new release
June 23, 2006 - 9:32am — duncanThe new version of the Democracy Player is available for download. It works great and is an amazing program. If you thought youtube and ifilm killed time, you have to try this out. Based out of Worcester, Democracy Player is developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation.
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Fighting Global Warming, one cow at a time.
May 31, 2006 - 10:45am — KeithQuote:
Global warming is no joke, and neither is a specially-designed garment for trapping cow farts.
Truer words have never been said. Many people naturally come to Volcano Boy to keep abreast of the latest cutting edge developments in science and technology. Whether you're a diligent activist, fighting against the ravages of global warming, or an industrial apologist who sprays a full can of Aqua Net directly into the sky just because you can, you will nonetheless appreciate this device, deals extensively with the multi-faceted issue of bovine-originated methane gas.
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Adventures In Amplitude Modulation
March 13, 2006 - 12:31pm — duncanAs the grandson of an avid Ham radio operator (WA1WOT) and shortwave radio enthusiast, I spent many hours as a youth tuning in bizarre broadcasts from foreign lands. If you have never heard shortwave radio or 
if you a interested in it, The Professor has posted his 11th installment of Adventures in Amplitude Modulation. This series on
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
February 13, 2006 - 2:54pm — paxtonPKD fans may have their answer soon enough as the Philip K Dick lookalike created by Hanson Robotics is on the lamb.
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The quirky android, which made a major splash at Wired Magazine's NextFest in Chicago in June, was lost in early January while en route to California by commercial airliner.
"We can't find Phil," said Steve Prilliman of Dallas-based Hanson Robotics, which created the futuristic robot with the FedEx Institute of Technology at the University of Memphis, the Automation and Robotics Research Institute at the University of Texas at Arlington and Dick's friend Paul Williams.
I'm going with publicity stunt. But who knows, maybe the android was inspired by a Terminator marathon and figured now was as good a time as any to take over the world.
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