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But They Can’t Give Us A Browser Immune To Ads?

A new internet streaming service offered by Microsoft has traditional radio stations fuming, and many are accusing the software behemoth of copyright hypocrisy. The service consists of multiple live CD-quality streams of commercial-free music which duplicate exactly the publicly available playlists of nearly 1000 North American radio stations. Listeners can even select their favorite station … Continue reading “But They Can’t Give Us A Browser Immune To Ads?”

Who Will Succeed Jansons In Pittsburgh?

“With potential candidates streaming into the vacuum next season — including Marin Alsop, Martin Haselbock, Peter Oundjian and Mark Wigglesworth — it may take a year even to name a designate. Pinchas Zukerman comes often next year as a pseudo music director and Hans Graf will lead the PSO on an important European tour in … Continue reading “Who Will Succeed Jansons In Pittsburgh?”

Killing The iPod – Try The Celestial Jukebox

“By using licenses, the labels and their download sites are secretly transforming music into a service—something to which you subscribe, and about which they can change the rules any time they want. But it’s a particularly crappy service. Who wants to ‘own’ this sort of pseudo-property, these annoying, stubborn, mulelike music files? In contrast, a … Continue reading “Killing The iPod – Try The Celestial Jukebox”

Radio The Way You Like It

A new streaming radio station in London attempts to gather data about what each listener likes and doesn’t like and tailor its music playlists. “Here’s how it works for Last.fm: Users can either fill out a profile or just begin listening. If a song plays to the end, the system logs this as a thumbs … Continue reading “Radio The Way You Like It”

Why Whine When You Can Innovate?

The Colorado Music Festival is not sitting around waiting for the financial woes that are plaguing so many classical music organizations to hit them, too. Rather, the Boulder-based organization is joining forces with other arts groups to offer their audience new reasons to keep streaming through the turnstiles. A collaboration with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival … Continue reading “Why Whine When You Can Innovate?”

Clear Channel Pulls Out Of Netcasting

The nation’s largest corporate radio conglomerate, Clear Channel Communications, has told its stations that they must individually bear the cost of broadcasting their signals over the internet, causing 150 of them to yank their webcasts entirely. The cost of streaming a traditional radio signal has become increasingly prohibitive with courts issuing rulings mandating payments to … Continue reading “Clear Channel Pulls Out Of Netcasting”

Media: September 2002

Monday September 30 SIN-TILLATING: New-style censorship companies edit out what they consider to be objectionable parts of movies and make them available to clients. One company – CleanFlicks – says “we love movies, but prefer to watch them without the sex, nudity, profanity or extreme violence.” Now Hollywood is suing, saying no one has the … Continue reading “Media: September 2002”

Media: June 2002

Monday July 1 THE MOVIE SUMMER: The summer movie season is beating all box office records. So far, from May 2 to June 23 box office is up 27.5% over last year. “A key factor this summer is that the hit films are generally playing stronger and longer, unlike last year, when spectacular first weekend … Continue reading “Media: June 2002”

Media: October 2001

Wednesday October 31 VIDEO WHEN YOU WANT IT: HBO introduces video-on-demand. “Video-on-demand is like having access to a virtual video store with no tapes or late fees to worry about. It not only gives viewers absolute control over viewing times, it also offers VCR-like functionality: Viewers can pause, rewind and fast-forward programs.” Wired 10/30/01 I WANT MY … Continue reading “Media: October 2001”

Issues: July 2001

Tuesday July 31 WE REAP WHAT WE SOW: Artists in China can have a hard time pushing the envelope, what with the political repression, the torture, and all. So many have turned to a completely apolitical form of “shock art” based on visually disturbing images. “They reflect the bizarre direction in which Chinese art has moved … Continue reading “Issues: July 2001”