Audiocasting
By audiocasting I mean broadcasting audio content over the internet. Podcasting is what most people think of, but many sites stream music without being a podcast. Many social networking sites allow members to build and share playlists. This is a very popular activity, and many artists and big labels think they are getting burned, when actually they are getting free publicity and being broadcast in a new medium.When radio first came on the scene most big labels were against their music being broadcast because they feared no one would buy records if they could listen to the songs on the radio for free.
Now we are into new technologies and instead of radio stations we have people sharing their favorite ear candy by embedding it into their "FaceSpace" page, on web sites, and emails.
There are many applications that audiocast content on web servers and generate embedding codes to be shared.
Opentape has become popular in Ekone, and it is time to state how we use it. All content in our playlists are either in the public domain, or are copyrighted by the people whose works are in the lists, and who are grateful they are there ready for "air" play. The owners of the songs retain their copyrights and distribution permissions. We get content. People get get music and information. Win-win-win. Nobody's losing.
Instead of a few hundred radio stations broadcasting to America, we now have millions of micro audiocasts in a myriad of flavors going out all over the planet over internet technologies.
For downloads the distribution permissions we follow are that the person downloading the music must agree to not sample or sell the files and explain the deal to anyone who they share them with. Working musicians are allowed to play any of the songs in their shows as long as credit is given to the songwriter and a recording of the show, or at least of the set the song was in, be sent to the songwriter.
That's the deal for content that is "broadcast" in forms that allow downloading.
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Blu Streets Records
Kirk has started Blu Streets Records to release his CD Project on his own label and has asked me to administer his site.Comments - Edit - Delete
Puppy
I am posting from my old 650Mhz PIII, which has a full install of Nearly Office Puppy, with assorted frugal install boots for other users.NOP includes the Hiawatha web server and PPLOG as a personal blogging applet-thingy. I found it useful to work on articles, editing and re-editing and then copying the copy (and its BB codes) into the submission box of a couple sites I post at and/or a forum or few. PPLOG has turned out to be a little engine that could.
And it is tiny, yet powerful, and now we are installing PPLOG around our domains, just for its handiness as a blogging tool. And some of the coding for that was done on this little machine.
Puppy, too is another little engine that could. And can and does! This old box was a Win98 machine, and NOP runs it just as well, if not better. What was destined for the land fill is continuing to serve humanity as a little workstation and tiny node on the network of networks.
Stuff gets done on this old 'puter even though you can't watch movies or play high end games. (In fact there are no games on standard NOP. None.) But it still has enough oomph for a webstation that gets shared out to a non-profit and other users booting other OSes (mostly Puppies) to cyber-cafe it from time to time.
Without Open Source software this system would be a dinosaur left running programs that will never again have updates on an OS there are no updates for either. With Puppy it is staying way more up to date in the programs it runs and the OS that powers it. Staying fresh! Never stale.
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Extra Terrestrial Trucking
Carl ran Extra Terrestrial Trucking for a lot of years until he retired. The name was a subtle pun that few noticed, because Extra Terrestrial does not mean the same thing as Extra-terrestrial, or extraterrestrial no matter which dictionary you try.ET has helped a lot of people find their way onto the web, and still has a lot going on behind the current Gone Fishing sign on the front page.
The latest was when one of our friends couldn't run Opentape on his server because the installed perl wasn't a new enough version so Carl hosted the cat's playlist and he used an iframe to include the music on his site.
I have one there, but I don't know if you can call one audio file a play list.
I asked Carl recently what he wanted to do with the ettruck domain and he said he figured he would just hang on to it. I asked how he would feel about turning it into a record label, and he thought that might be fun. So I'm working on it.
One playlist at a time because GrindHouse is hosted on the same server that had the outdated perl version for Opentape, and I'm uploading their 2009 CD now so I can iframe later.
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Good Faith
We deal with other people ethically and in good faith. It is one of our shared values.There are many out there who do not deal ethically or in good faith and, although they are a small minority, they have been winning by simply being the whiniest kids on the bus.
All they care about is being anti-social because in their fight to defeat Communism, they destroyed all sense of community within their own culture and live only because they have perceived enemies to fight. Without an enemy they are nothings, just empty constructs without depth or intellectual curiosity or emotional intelligence.
These are the Fearful Fifth, the 20% who rule by making the most noise and bother, because it has always been the squeaky wheel that got the grease. The time has come for the squeaky wheel to be replaced.
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