June 09, 2004
concept of the day: peer-reviewed netlabel
the idea here is to take the practice of peer-reviewed publishing known from academic journals and apply it to a netaudio label. a pool of competent authors (i.e., artists, musicians themselves) judge a pool of submitted songs for inclusion in a compilation. an editor would assign multiple reviewers to each song, and each reviewer would receive a subset of the submitted tracks. note that this is different from collaborative filtering where the audience expresses preferences for already published material. issues to resolve include: anonymous submissions, (?); other aspects that may be translated: invited papers, book reviews. the netaudio competitions hosted by (ref?) and soulseek already incorporate some of the aspects of a peer reviewed netaudio journal.
June 06, 2004
NYT Vacation Reading: A short meta-selection
The New York Times just published its annual summer reading suggestions online here. My personal non-fiction picks, from reading the abstracts, are below:
A CONTINENT FOR THE TAKING: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa. By Howard W. French.
THE CREATION OF THE MEDIA: Political Origins of Modern Communications. By Paul Starr. (Basic Books, $27.50.)
EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. By Lynne Truss. (Gotham, $17.50.)
ON PARADISE DRIVE: How We Live Now (and Always Have) in the Future Tense. By David Brooks. (Simon & Schuster, $25.)
SOMETHING FROM THE OVEN: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America. By Laura Shapiro. (Viking, $24.95.)
June 01, 2004
Freebitflows/WOS-3
In the next two weeks I will be speaking/performing at two internet culture conferences - Free Bitflows in Vienna and Wizards of OS3 in Berlin. For a quick introduction I wrote about these events (in German) see http://www.phlow.net/arc/001032.php. The Free Bitflows presentation and all associated links will be at http://bjoern.org/freebitflows/.