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Links for listening and uploading to DS106 Radio - and the minimal protocol for loading.  Fantastic example of just getting out there and doing it.

And now, new ds106 TV http://www.justin.tv/ds106tv/b/282994702? I suspect here's an awful lot of copyrighted music played over the ds106 radio waves/pipes, but I wouldn't know since internet radio protocols seem to be blocked :-(

Piracy allows the spread of music & culture and increases sales of goods.

Exploration of narrative, openness, digital storytelling

"Musical instruments produce sounds. Composers produce music. Musical instruments reproduce music. Tape recorders, radios, disc players, etc., reproduce sound. A device such as a wind-up music box produces sound and reproduces music. A phonograph in the hands of a hip hop/scratch artist who plays a record like an electronic washboard with a phonographic needle as a plectrum, produces sounds which are unique and not reproduced - the record player becomes a musical instrument. A sampler, in essence a recording, transforming instrument, is simultaneously a documenting device and a creative device, in effect reducing a distinction manifested by copyright."

Brian Lamb on the links between radio development and ds106radio, the rise of a business whose sole job is to create business by pushing copyright and the danger of an anodyne future for the Internet

"In the first of a new series of online 'radio' programmes - JISC on Air - we explore how digital technologies are helping universities to share reliable and consistent course information and support new students throughout the recruitment process."

This article defines transliteracy as "the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks" and opens the debate with examples from history, orality, philosophy, literature, and ethnography.

Patching in VOIP to DS106radio and allowing multi-user mobile connection. Uses OSS Asterix

"...I wanted to find a straightforward means for users to access #ds106radio broadcasting... To accomplish this I adopted Asterisk - a robust open source PBX software platform."<--we could use this to run our own VotApedia installation too!

Includes a good video on the role of twitter as a search engine and a live stream of happenings.

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