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Radiohead hosted an online project a few years back trying to get people hyped about their new album.  Online musicians were supposed to do a remix of their song "Reckoner."  My dad did one!

Another case of youtube visuals making the audio that much better. The whole song itself is played in the background, though, so I don't know how long this will be online. It depends if YouTube's filters detect the song... Thoughts on how YouTube has criteria for videos like this and whether this should be online?

The digital mixtape. Ad-free 8 track playlists, curated online by anyone in your network and beyond.

Apple is going to challenge Pandora and create their own streaming-radio. I don't know if I like where Apple is headed, because they already have to great an influence in the music industry. Plus, this might kill Pandora, for they have pretty shaky licensing pacts with labels as it is.

RiP! A Remix Manifesto (2009): Created over a period of six years, the documentary film features the collaborative remix work of hundreds of people who have contributed to the Open Source Cinema website, helping to create the "world's first open source documentary" as Gaylor put it. KINDA LONG BUT COOL.

A "How to Remix Dance Music" online course

Film shot by people all over the world in one day.  The whole film is available online for free on YouTube (after watching an ad of course), and the footage has been made available to people. They've even made their own "remixes" of the trailer for the film. A great, high profile example of open source filmmaking.

I use Amazon's kindle e-reader online and, as it turns out, the some publishers inflated the price of their books. Since e-books are relatively new, it's hard to judge what the appropriate price for a story is when there is no manufacturing needed. Some exploit this gap in experience and are being brought to court.

If you ever need to download something from online...

I really like this article. It's about a Web Remix art exhibit. The artist isn't sure how long he can keep it running since he knows he's infringing copyrights. But his statement below makes so much sense explaining how web collage is a natural derivation of what's online: ""If you see just one video on YouTube, it doesn't make sense to you," Quaranta explained. But as a collection, a thesis emerges."

Pinterest is an online forum where people can post articles, videos, recipes, photos, etc., that express their own interests. It is a fascinating way in which "every consumer gets courted across multiple media platforms" since each person's pinterest "boards" depict multiple ways of gathering information and appeals to popular cultural phenomenons. It is also very similar to diigo in many ways that I think is interesting- different websites that are used to organize the mass amount of information that people encounter while searching the web.

For me, pinterest is the place where I, as the syllabus says, "keep found things found"

It says its from 2003 but I have a hard time believing that. This is an unintentionally hilarious, supremely 80's documentary about collaboration in the music industry. Its pre-mainstream remix, but I still think it could be relevant.

Microsoft is trying to step in the ring with Apple.

"The remixthebook.com website is the online hub for the digital remixes of many of the theories generated in the print book and features the work of artists, creative writers and scholars for whom the practice and theory of remix art is central to their research interests."

SOPA - a lot to digest here. But this was a big deal earlier in the year to Wikipedia and Google, regarding how this act would force them to censor any work that their sites reference that is pirated.