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Now in print and in databases at your local research library: Ad Hoc Archivists: mp3 blogs and digital provenance Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural StudiesVol. 26, No. 1, February 2012, pp. 1-10Abstract: This paper develops a theoretical framework for understanding mp3 blogging as a form of networked expression. Drawing on a qualitative study of mp3 blogs, this paper sets forth an

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Available now at a research library near you: Rethinking the Rhetoric of RemixMedia International AustraliaNo. 141, pp. 17-25Abstract: How did 'remix', a post-production technique and compositional form in dance music, come to describe digital culture? Is it an apt metaphor? This article considers the rhetorical use of remix in Lawrence Lessig's case for copyright reform in Remix: Making Art and

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Now in print:Borschke, Margie (2011) "Disco edits and their discontents: The persistence of the analog in a digital era" New Media & Society September 2011 vol. 13 no. 6 929-944; Published online before print December 6, 2010, doi: 10.1177/1461444810386693 University of New South Wales, Australia, margaret.borschke@unsw.edu.auAbstractThis article foregrounds the distinction between two

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Nate Silver's piece on the New York Time's website, 'The Economics of Blogging and The Huffington Post' makes the following statement:"I’ve also done a fair amount of uncompensated or undercompensated writing — there is certainly a time and a place for it, particularly if you’re trying to establish or re-establish your brand."This conflation of reputation and brand is intriguing. It seems to me

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New York Times foreign correspondent Stephen Farrell describes his pared down kit for stealth reporting at Tahrir Squarehttp://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/what-not-to-bring-to-tahrir-square/MultimediaLens: What Not to Bring to Tahrir SquareBy By STEPHEN FARRELLPublished: February 8, 2011Less is more for journalists in Cairo, Stephen Farrell reports. Less equipment can mean more access. Or,

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http://www.baycitizen.org/visual-art/story/jeff-koons-sends-cease-and-desist-sfs/Lawyers for artist Jeff Koons sent a letter asking Park Life to stop selling and advertising the balloon dog bookends, return them to some mutually agreed upon address, tell Koons how many have been sold and disclose the maker of said bookends — a fact, Alexander said, that could easily be found via Google.In Twist,

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I wish I could tele-transport myself to London for "What is an Object?", a one-day conference at the Anna Freud Centre:12 February 20119.30am-5pmWhat is an Object?Day ConferenceAn inter-disciplinary symposiumat the Anna Freud Centre, London NW3Art theory, anthropology, philosophy and psychoanalysis have been brought together by the Freud Museum to wrestle over the deceptively simple question '

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Working with the bias of distributed networks sends activists offline.16 December 2010, BBCAnonymous Wikileaks activists move to analogue tactics Bookmark this on Delicious

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I'm pleased to announce the online publication of "Disco Edits and Their Discontents: The Persistence of the Analog in a Digital Era", my scholarly consideration of Disco Edits in New Media and Society. (Access via a research library or by subscription. Email me if you don't have access to either.) ******Disco edits and their discontents: The persistence of the analog in a digital eraMargie

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Marcus Boon's In Praise of Copying from Harvard University Press Bookmark this on Delicious

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An essay I wrote for the special underground issue of Artlink.Borschke, M 2010. "Hiding in Plain Sight: regionalism and the underground". Hiding in plain sight: regionalism and the underground". Artlink 30:2, p32-33.I never really went looking for 'the underground', but as a teenager in the mid 1980s I found one at the top of a steep set of stairs in an artist-run gallery in downtown London,

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Media International Australia Television Comedy and Light EntertainmentNo 134, February 2010Theme Editors: Felicity Collins, Sue Turnbull and Susan Bye Churchill, Suzanne W. and McKible, Adam (eds), Little Magazines & Modernism: New Approaches, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2007, ISBN 9 7807 5466 0149, 292 pp., £55.00.Scholars of modernism have long considered the thousands of little magazines that came

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Remarkable CreaturesImitators That Hide in Plain Sight, and Stay AliveBy SEAN B. CARROLLPublished: February 16, 2010The New York TimesHenry Walter Bates returned to England in 1859 with 14,000 species from the Amazon, just in time for Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species.”Bates explained to Darwin that he had found many instances in which a completely harmless and potentially edible animal

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Reactionaries? Make That ‘Collectors’ By DAN LEVINPublished: February 3, 2010The New York TimesCONTESTANT No. 3, a portly man in suspenders named Cui Xiaosong, clutched a golden mallet and gulped like an executioner having second thoughts. As a guest on China’s wildly popular antiques reality show “Collection World,” Mr. Cui knew he might have to get violent before the next commercial break. The

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Therefore, one invents--in the literal use of the Latin word inventio, employed by rhetoricians to stress finding again or reassembling from past performances, as opposed to the romantic use of invention as something you create from scratch--goals abductively, that is, hypothesizes a better situation from the known historical and social facts. Said, Edward, "The Public Role of Writers and

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Only One of Its Kind...The New York Times has published a digital copy of Charles Dickens Manuscript for A Christmas Carol. The original is in the collection of The Morgan Library in New York City. via http://wardsix.blogspot.com/ Bookmark this on Delicious

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Double Exposure - Ten Per CentOriginally uploaded by ElectriqueKingdom

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Uncommon Press account on Spikehttp://meanjin.com.au/spike-the-meanjin-blog/post/uncommon-press/ Bookmark this on Delicious

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You Didn’t Plagiarize, Your Unconscious DidIs cryptomnesia—copying the work of others without being aware of it—to blame for journalism's ultimate sin? Um, maybe not.By Russ Juskalian | Newsweek Web Exclusive Jul 7, 2009Henry Roediger, a memory expert at Washington University in St. Louis, said that cryptomnesia is partially caused by the lopsidedness of our memories: it's easier to remember

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Google's Book Search: A Disaster for ScholarsBy Geoffrey NunbergThe Chronicle of Higher Education-August 31, 2009Seen in that light, the quality of Google's book search will be measured by how well it supports the familiar activity that we have come to think of as "googling," in tribute to the company's specialty: entering in a string of keywords in an effort to locate specific information, like

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McCartney’s own musical beginnings weren’t too different from picking up Rock Band and pretending to be a star, he pointed out. “I emulated Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis. We all did.” The group might have kept going that way, he said, except that they’d find themselves backstage, “and we’d hear our complete set being played by the band before us.” That’s the reason, he said,

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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25739026-2703,00.htmlThe project began 44 years ago with Michael Samuels, then Professor of English Language at the University of Glasgow. Several of the project's founders have since died.His team began transcribing information from the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary (OED) on to slips of paper.They plugged away for more than a decade, and

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David Farley on the perils of travel writing“Is that a good article?” I asked.“I wouldn’t have come here if I hadn’t seen this in my local paper,” the woman from Houston said. It turned out, the article went out on the Times’ wire service and was picked up by a dozen or so other newspapers. There was even an article about my article in La Stampa, the daily newspaper of Turin. In the coming weeks,

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"A lawyer for Mr. Salinger, Marcia B. Paul, told Judge Batts that the author had a right to keep Holden Caulfield “frozen in time” for the life of his copyright." (via Clyde Haberman's "‘Rye’ Dispute Is Gateway to City’s Past" Judge Rules for J.D. Salinger in ‘Catcher’ Copyright SuitBy SEWELL CHANPublished: July 2, 2009A federal judge banned publication in the United States of a book containing a

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Cheap Trick adventures with 8-track in 2009!Globe & Mail's Report

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It's unfortunate that the authors equated 'copied' with 'stolen' but Attributor's idea seems fair at first glance if it allows for the following:1. It facilitates social distribution, that is, the reposting of entire articles without having to seek permission2. It allows blogger to profit from their aggregating or curating activities while creating a simple solution for any ad revenues generated

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Research ShowcasesCreative Media Showcase & Energy ShowcaseThe Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research), Professor Les Field, has announced the winners of the Presentation and Poster Prizes for the Creative Media Research Showcase and the Energy Research Showcase.The quality of the all presentations was exceptionally high and he thanked all those who had contributed to the success of the showcases. Both

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AP Reporter Jake Coyle named Hulu.com, a video streaming site backed by NBC and News Corp, best web site of the year.I can't comment on the reporter's pick as I've never seen the site--it is only available for streaming in the USA.Given this failure to work with the *world wide* nature of the web, holding Hulu up as a model of "how professional content can thrive on the Web" is problematic. I'm

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Michiko Kakutani, writin in The New York Times on Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs' early collaboration: The best thing about this collaboration between Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs is its gruesomely comic title: “And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks,” a phrase the two writers said they once heard on a radio broadcast about a circus fire.Kerouac, writing in the persona of Mike

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Google Signs Deal to e-Publish out-of-print booksBook Publishers Take Leaps Into DigitalBy ERIC PFANNERPublished: New York TimesNovember 10, 2008

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Two Bits

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Seminar – Journalism and Media Research CentreTitle: JMRC 2008 Seminar SeriesDr Jean BurgessPost-doctoral FellowQueensland University of TechnologyDate: 18/9/2008Time: 4-6pmLocation: Room 127, Goodsell Building, UNSWNotesWhether celebratory or critical, too much scholarly discussion of 'Web 2.0' and participatory culture fails to fully engage with the specificity of the branded online communities

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Last night, I attended Prof Christopher Pinney's talk, Photography & the Transformation of Cultures. The lecture was a part Transforming Cultures. He spoke at great length about photography as an event but I kept having a nagging question about both the specificity and multiplicity of the print. I look forward to reading the longer version of the paper.

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The press release and footage from the new Journalism and Media Research Centre where I am working on my PhD:News Ltd chief opens UNSW Centre5th September 2008The Chairman and CEO of News Limited has told a gathering of media insiders and researchers that there is a growing need for relevant, high quality research into the media, during a period of great change in the industry.Speaking at the

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Twelve Theses on the Economy of the Deadby John Bergerfrom Left Curve, 311. The dead surround the living. The living are the core of the dead.In this core are the dimensions of time and space.What surrounds the core is timelessness.2. Between the core and its surrundings there are exchanges, which are notusually clear. All religions have been concerned with making them clearer.The credibility of

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The Dead Media Project

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"You'll Shut up. You're the Audience. I am the author. I outrank you!"World's Worst Playright Franz Liebkind in The Producers

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Excerpts fromThe DJs They Couldn’t Hangby Stuart CosgroveOriginally published in the NME, August 9, 1986 (See whole story in the archives at DJhistory.com)House music is dedicated. There are one or two releases which have the familiarity that hit records depend on, but most of them are for the dedicated. It is meta-music, a sound that constantly refers outwards to other soundsHouse music is far

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From Copy This Book, an interview with Jonathan Lethem in Wired, 04.19.07"I wanted to say any artist could make up their own way of dealing with copyright," Lethem explains. "I wanted to possess the activity. Some novelists have already done that by using Creative Commons licenses. But I'm saying we can make up a new set of rules every time we offer something to the world. Artists should take

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Sydney-based Artist-run printing co-operatives Big Fag and Fagette in Throw Shapes:THE BIG FAG PRESS IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT CO-OPERATIVE. YOU ARE NOT A CLIENT. YOU ARE A PARTICIPANT. THERE IS NO GUARANTEE OF A PROFESSIONAL OUTCOME.Thus warns the brochure for the FAG 104, a huge old offset proof printing machine which an Alexandria-based artist collective snapped up at a liquidation auction five

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John Oswald's essay from 1985. File under the more things change, the more they stay the same."Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative"- as presented by John Oswald to the Wired Society Electro-Acoustic Conference in Toronto in 1985.Musical instruments produce sounds. Composers produce music. Musical instruments reproduce music. Tape recorders, radios, disc players, etc.,

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http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/the_google_way.phpSo far Correlative Analytics, or the Google Way of Science, has primarily been deployed in sociological realms, like language translation, or marketing. That's where the zillionic data has been. All those zillions of data points generated by our collective life online. But as more of our observations and measurements of nature are

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Who wrote the Serenity Prayer?The inspiring text -- long attributed to an eminent theologian -- may have deeper roots than we thought.Yale Alumni MagazineJuly/August 2008by Fred R. ShapiroFolklorists regard variant versions of a text as evidence of a descent that has not been fixed by writing and print. Sayings with this kind of variation may be proverbial, the circumstances of their coinage

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Buddha’s CavesBy HOLLAND COTTERPublished: July 6, 2008The New York TimesOn the lip of the Gobi Desert, sand and tourists threaten Mogaoku’s singular art.(with slideshow)Plans for drastic remedial action are in place. Under Dr. Fan and the vice director, Wang Xudong, the academy will build by 2011 a new visitor reception center several miles from the caves, near the airport and railroad station.

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Kevin Kopelson's Diary in The London Review of Books, May 22, 2008:DiaryKevin Kopelson In his book Von der Einheit der Musik [‘The Oneness of Music’], Ferruccio Busoni devoted about one and a half pages to the piano under the heading: ‘Man achte das Klavier’ [‘Respect the piano!’]. In a highly laconic and perfected style he gives such a clear and accurate description of the piano’s

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From The Library in the New Age, Robert DarntonNew York Review of Books, June 12, 2008Information has never been stable. That may be a truism, but it bears pondering. It could serve as a corrective to the belief that the speedup in technological change has catapulted us into a new age, in which information has spun completely out of control. I would argue that the new information technology

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From "Is the Tipping Point Toast" by Clive Thompson in Fast Company February, 2008Actually, if you believe [Duncan] Watts, the world isn't just complex--it's practically anarchic. In 2006, he performed another experiment that chilled the blood of trendologists. Trends, it suggested, aren't merely hard to predict and engineer--they occur essentially at random.Watts wanted to find out whether the

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Library Adds Major Media Collection - The Library Today (Library of Congress)Contact for Tony Schwartz collection at Library of CongressUsing the Recorded Sound Reference CentreAmerican Folklife Centre

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Aired June 27, 2008 on WNYC's On the MediaThe Listening LifeJune 27, 2008In his 84 years Tony Schwartz produced over 30,000 recordings, thousands of groundbreaking political ads, media theory books and Broadway sound design, invented the portable recorder, delivered hundreds of lectures and had full careers as an ad executive and a pioneering folklorist. And he did it all without leaving his zip

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Insight Discussion about Downloading Music June 3, 2008Insight's roundtable discussion on the effect of new technologies on the music industry fails to ask the bigger question of the effects of new technologies on music cultures. The banter stays pretty close to the point of sale until Jordan Front-Hodson starts talking about his experience.JENNY BROCKIE: Jordan, what would make you pay?JORDAN

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The Flying Lizards - articles - Option, 1996: "'More and more, I begin to think that music in this century is becoming a music about occasion, about people coming together, about space, about human activity,' he continues. 'I don't see records as being so relevant to that. The rave movement in Britain is a kind of interesting subversion of the record industry in a way that punk never succeeded.'"

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The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs - NYTimes.comJune 16, 2008The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in BlogsBy SAUL HANSELLThe Associated Press, one of the nation’s largest news organizations, said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can

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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody

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Anna Davis & Jason Gee | MIC Toi RerehikoAnna Davis and Jason Gee, Bioheads (2005-2008)Data is meaningless. Ones and zeros judge nothing. Puppets need masters. But still, when we encounter Anna Davis and Jason Gee’s Bioheads, digitally-animated ventriloquist dolls that sing pop songs and spit out psychobabble, we’re not exactly sure whose lips are moving.Davis and Gee download the digital

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The Atlantic Online | July/August 2008 | Is Google Making Us Stupid? | Nicholas Carr Sometime in 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche bought a typewriter—a Malling-Hansen Writing Ball, to be precise. His vision was failing, and keeping his eyes focused on a page had become exhausting and painful, often bringing on crushing headaches. He had been forced to curtail his writing, and he feared that he would

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Are re-edits the real revenge of disco? | Music | Guardian Unlimited: "Ron Hardy was spinning in Chicago's proto-house club The Music Box than anything we've heard in house music clubs this past decade. Maybe disco didn't require retribution after all, perhaps it just needed time?..."Over the last six months it's become the main genre we sell," says Simon Rigg, manager of London dance music

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It wasn't so long ago that the fashion editors at high-fashion titles were letting readers in on a little secret: the cool kids were either picking up "fake" bags for $20 on Canal Street or putting their name on lists for meticulously handmade it-bags. Both fashions were decidedly about money. The latter was a case of conspicuous consumption made palatable for upper middle class values by

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Daniel Roth's excellent piece "The Pirates Can't be Stopped" in Portfolio. He also discussed the story on NPR's On the Radio (full transcript.Yet it has been difficult to quantify the damage supposedly wreaked by downloading. In mid-2007, economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee, from Harvard, and Koleman Strumpf, from the University of Kansas, published the results of their study analyzing the effect of

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A Book review from the New York Times, March 24, 1985 NEXT, MAGNITIZDATBy JERI LABER; JERI LABER IS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF HELSINKI WATCH.Published: March 24, 1985BEHIND THE LINESThe Private War Against Soviet Censorship. By Donald R. Shanor. 179 pp. New York: St. Martin's Press. $13.95.FACED with a revolution in technology that is rapidly transforming the industrialized world, the leaders of

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From Photo District Newshttp://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/newswire/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003725145March 13, 2008By Daryl LangWhen a prostitute hired by former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was identified Wednesday, news outlets eagerly published photos grabbed from her MySpace profile.Can they get away with that?Three attorneys who specialize in copyright law say media organizations are

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Dot Earth Entry in the New York Times on the opening of the The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway.http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/buried-seed-vault-opens-in-arctic/Here's what Grain.org had to say Thousands of accessions have died in storage, as many have been rendered useless for lack of basic information about the seeds, and countless others have lost their unique

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If storytelling is the sign of a healthy community, what are the implications of a society that treats some stories as property?From Apophenia June 18, 2003storytelling... Sandra Ball-RokeachTalking with my advisor yesterday, he spoke about Sandra Ball-Rokeach at USC's Annenberg School For Communication who suggests that the sign of a healthy community is one that tells stories. Storytelling has

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Press release from MFA Boston:Zhang Daqian (1899-1983) casts a long shadow over the modern history of Chinese painting. As a painter, he was known for his singular ability to mix traditional techniques and styles with contemporary ideas and currents. As a collector, he accumulated important examples from all genres of Chinese painting and left behind copious seals and inscriptions. As a forger,

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Trailer for Be Kind Rewind (out in Oz, March 20, 2008)Be Kind Rewind You Tube Profilehttp://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=BeKindMovieDirector Michael Gondry 'swedes' (translation: re-makes) his own film trailer.Gondry's explanation on the etymology of sweding as told Chris Lee of the Los Angeles Times:"I wanted a name that meant nothing," Paris native Gondry said in Clouseau-esque Franglais

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"During my conversation with her representative, Mr. Blair, he pointed me to Ms. Rowling’s Web site, suggesting that would be the best place to find her response to the RDR Books case and the Harry Potter Lexicon. “You have our permission to quote from her Web site,” he said.I already have that right, Mr. Blair. But thanks anyway."From "A Tight Grip Can Choke Creativity", JOE NOCERA, in The New

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Marilyn Langstaffby Greg CurnoeDate made: 1962Materials: gouache, dayglo, stamp pad inkMeasurements: 28.5 x 26 cm

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It's not a reliable source, some journalists say Wikipedia can lead you to reliable sources. "Any reasonable person has to be up front that there are weaknesses," says founder Jimmy Wales. "On the other hand, there are lots of sources that have weaknesses."read more | digg story(This post was automatically generated by Digg, based on the original poster's summary. )

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In addition to my own research, I recently did some work on a project about recontextualising heritage collections, a joint project between the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney and the Powerhouse Museum. The project is looking at the variety of ways that digital media and social authoring can enhance and enrich the curatorial process. I was looking at the ways in

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Beijing's SilkStreet is known as the place to go for brandname knock-offs. Agenda reports on the making of a brand:‘Real deal’: Beijing fakes market gets own brandCounterfeitsilk0108.jpgIn a highly ironic move, but at a time when China is increasing its need for brand legitimacy, Beijing’s most notorious location for counterfeit luxury goods - SilkStreet - has just turned itself into a legitimate

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The Copy and Paste Show is a project by Seth Price, Ida Ekblad & Anders Nordby, and 808. This show was curated by Hanne Mugaas and is part of Time Shares, a series of online exhibitions co-presented by Rhizome and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. It has benn online since September 27, 2006. The Copy and Paste Show explores the evolution of copy-and-paste culture, through which the copying of

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In November I posted a link to an excellent piece in Artforum about the infamous Chinese oil painting village in Dafen.Last month, on The Atlantic's site, James Fallows posted his own pictures of the art and artists in the village and ponders the importance of bearing witness.An artist in Dafen with his prolific outputHe also links to this earlier article about the village in the Chicago

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7167878.stm 'Laughs' not exclusive to humansThe basis for laughter may have originated in an ancient primate ancestral to both humans and modern apes, a study suggests.Scientists found that orang-utans had a sense of empathy and mimicry which forms an essential part of laughter.Facial expressions, such as the open, gaping mouth resembling laughter, were

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122800693.htmlDownload Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal UseBy Marc FisherWashington Post Staff WriterSunday, December 30, 2007; M05Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online rather than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry

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Quotations on Software patents.http://eupat.ffii.org/archiv/zitate/"What frightens and infuriates so many of us about software patents is that they seek to monopolize our intellectual processes when their representation and performance is aided by a machine." Jim Warren (Autodesk) 1994

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GNU Manifestohttp://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.htmlThe GNU ManifestoThe GNU Manifesto (which appears below) was written by Richard Stallman at the beginning of the GNU Project, to ask for participation and support. For the first few years, it was updated in minor ways to account for developments, but now it seems best to leave it unchanged as most people have seen it.Since that time, we have

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A report from Lucas Ihlein on the re-do of Alan Kaprow's 18 Happenings in 6 parts.

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ORIGINAL COPIES: THE DAFEN OIL PAINTING VILLAGEPhilip Tinari, ArtForum, October 2007Excellent piece that ponders the art and business of the handmade copy in Dafen, a Chinese village made up of oil painting businesses. He challenges the idea that these painters are "sweatshop painters" and instead begins to looks at the role of adaptation and style in their work. He also looks at the relationship

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"Like many people, I started blogging out of an urgent need to procrastinate."Alex Ross in The New Yorker"The Well-Tempered Web", October 22, 2007

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From the blog Bitter Greens Journal: Dominant traits: Can the seed trusts be busted?posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005--post references a Wall Street Journal article from 1999 quoting Alfonso Romo Garza, then Chairman and CEO of Seminis, the world's largest developer, grower and marketer of fruit and vegetable seeds. (Seminis is now wholly owned subsidiary of Monsanto). Here's how the Wall

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Fair Use Economy Represents One-Sixth of U.S. GDPFile Under: News, 2007, Copyright, CCIASep 12, 2007WASHINGTON D.C. - Fair Use exceptions to U.S. copyright laws are responsible for more than $4.5 trillion in annual revenue for the United States, according to the findings of an unprecedented economic study released today. According to the study commissioned by the Computer and Communications

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Nature as an Information Economy, a blog entry written by futurist Jamais Cascio on July 28, 2006Includes an intriguing argument about how replicability and non-uniformity are what distinguish an information economy from an industrial and service economies What makes the the information economy model different from industrial and service economies are two big factors: replicability and

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Counterfeit Chic, a blog devoted to so-called counterfeit or copied fashion by Susan Scafidi, an American legal scholar and author of Who Owns Culture? Scafidi is also a supporter of the extention of copyright to fashion design and has testified on behalf of the Council of Fashion Designers of America who are lobbying for the changes in US law.The blog collects news items related to the subject

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From the department of unknown nudity:"At least 11 percent of the world’s clothing is fake, according to 2000 figures from the Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group in Paris." wrote Dana Thomas in an op-ed piece in the New York Times, August 30, 2007.

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http://www.bumrocks.com/http://dreamchimney.com/tracks/http://www.fluxblog.org/http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/http://www.lovefingers.org/http://tofuhut.blogspot.com/

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New York City is proposing regulations restrictions on public photography, reported the New York Times on June 29, 2007.A couple weeks later the NYCLU reports that the city has agreed to open up the debate around these regulations which would extend the rules pertaining to commercial film shoots to "any group of two or more people who want to use a camera in a single public location for more than

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A brilliant piece in Harper's from February 2007 by Brooklyn author Jonathan Lethem. I must admit I had mixed feelings as I was reading this. It's packed with so many of the ideas that have occupied my thoughts for the past couple years that I couldn't help but feel, well scooped. This folly gave way to glee when I realised that Lethem had performed a feat of spectacular plagiarism, one so

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Influences of Neo-Confucianism in the Information SocietyThe Spreading of China in Internet Mediated Communicationsby Aristides PereiraAn essay about Neo-Confucianism and its relations on Chinese policies concerning copyrights and Internet use in the 21st Century.

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From the Sydney Morning HeraldAussie software pirate extraditedKenneth NguyenMay 7, 2007BEFORE he was extradited to the United States, Hew Griffiths, from Berkeley Vale in NSW, had never even set foot in America. But he had pirated software produced by American companies.Now, having been given up to the US by former justice minister Chris Ellison, Griffiths, 44, is in a Virginia cell, facing up

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A New York Times story on Corbis was accompanied by a slideshow that included the very famous photo Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange.A search of the Corbis site finds that the company claims copyright to the image (IH081187|Rights Managed|Image:© CORBIS). (The price charged depends on usage: full page inside an academic journal with 10000 circulation in Australia costs around 280AUD, web use for

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April 7, 2007What’s OnlineYouTube’s Favorite ClipsBy DAN MITCHELLON YouTube, copyrighted video clips of movies and TV shows are far less popular compared with noncopyrighted material than previously thought, according to a new study.On their face, the results could have serious implications for YouTube’s owner, Google, and the media companies, most notably Viacom, with which it has been

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Steve Jobs changes tune on DRMhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6337275.stm

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O'Donnell, Patrick W., The Users and Marketing Efficacy of MP3 Music BlogsPhD thesis: "This paper examined the users and marketing efficacy of MP3 music blogs. MP3 blogs are a specific type of blog that feature posts about musicians and have sample MP3s available for download. This study found that artists looking to gain access to an early adopter and non-mainstream music audience might find

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VH1 reporting:What's Next For The Mixtape World After DJ Drama Raid?'The movement is stronger than ever right now,' says DJ Sense, one-third of Drama's embattled Aphilliates crew — but others see tough times ahead. by Shaheem Reid and Jayson Rodriguez'Play The Game Fair': Lil Wayne Responds To DJ Drama's Mixtape Bust Diplomats' DukeDaGod, mixtape DJ also weigh in on the raid's impact.by Shaheem

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In the wake of DJ Drama's arrest I thought I'd collect some of the excellent reporting that exists on the web about hip hop mixtapes. In 2003, MTV put together this report, Mixtapes: THe Other Music Industry by Shaheem Reid. Worth noting:-the existence of mixtapes preceeded rap records. People like Grandmaster Flash and Kool Herc made customised tapes (charging by the minute and adding

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Nice piece by Michelle Kuo about Invader in the January 2007 issue of Artforum(See p.57).Notes:"Vandalism, then, emerges as a mode of public address--as one of the last remaining collective activitioes taking place in urban space.""Of course, what could be closer to the pervasive drift of global consumerism than a ubiquitous logo liek Invaders? Graffiti meets branding in a partnership that is by

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"Imagine the consequences if lots of people started creating “fake” art without acknowledging what they were up to?" Last Chance | Lester HayesA Promise That Never Bloomed, a Post-Minimalist You’ve Never Heard OfBy HOLLAND COTTERPublished: January 16, 2007New York Times

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Clive Thompson ponders false memories and interactive marketing after reading a paper to be published this month in the Journal of Consumer Research by Ann Schlosser, a business professor at the University of Washington. collision detection: Why interactive websites can create false memories

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No pre-owned games to be allowed for Playstation 3

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Thought DMCA was bad? Here’s DTCS! | blog.forret.com

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