BBC Becomes A Whipping Boy For UK’s Fiscal Woes

“The corporation is the biggest, oldest and most revered public broadcasting company in the world, a centerpiece of the British brand, as essential to Britains view of itself as the National Health Service or the royal family. … But despite all that, or perhaps because of it, the BBC seems at times to be an all-purpose whipping boy, an easy target for casual joking and at times naked derision from the country’s political establishment.”

So What Is A Book Anymore?

“Now, there are e-books, and blogs that turn into books, and long pieces of journalism that are somewhere between magazine articles and short books and a whole series of ongoing attempts to reimagine the entire industry of writing and selling books. If you’re an author, it’s a time of incredible chaos, but also incredible opportunity.”

The Robot Orchestra – Liberation

“The Machine Orchestra carries an undeniable cool factor, but it could also seem an unnecessarily complicated way of making music. And might performing robots dilute a core reason we play musical instruments in the first place — for the human expression of emotion through sound? Kapur and Darling maintain the opposite: that playing traditional instruments, even in the world of DJs and experimental electronica, can be limiting. “