"As the world becomes increasingly more connected to media, the consumption of music as cultural goods rises as well. It is speculative to assume that this proven increase in quantity will make music a more central part of peoples' lives, but it will certainly attract more scientific attention to the behavior and perception transformations associated with it."
"So what do I tell my kids? Should I urge them to go to university? Should I tell them to jack it all in and run off and join a startup? This is what's occupying my mind now."
Whoever the folks are at StooTV, they have pulled together clips of 30 action films from 1919 and 1973, and put them side by side with almost the same scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark- it is about 13 minutes of shot-by-shot comparison.
This controversial anti-piracy legislation is all about studios and other corporations making excuses for their technological backwardness and looking out for their short-term profit
A brilliant piece on appropriation, sampling and remixing throughout literary, cinematic and musical history and why our notions of property and creation have been subverted and corrupted. Published in Harpers Magazine in 2007.
Looking at the Occupy Wall Street protests through the eyes of a developer. An interesting examination of the components of a protest or social movement.
"I personally believe that the greatest role you [libraries] play is around the documentary national identity. People come to you to find out about their ancestors, to find out what life was like, to critically evaluate and understand the past."