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Scroogled

Scroogled. Cory Doctorow's fiction piece, what if Google were evil.

(Via Ve)
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Balanced Anarchy

Balanced Anarchy

This short clip comprises the main point of James Burke's excellent series (circa 1985) - The Day the Universe Changed.

Against a backdrop of a buddhist monastary, high in the himalayas, James Burke envisions a utopic future. Stopping just short of presaging the singularity, communities like digg and /. are quite obviously foretold.

(Ačiū Aivarui)
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Beer brewing Blender



Simon Jansen says: Everytime I watch Futurama I want to build a bender.

David Moore says: do you remember the episode where they brew beer inside Bender?
David Moore says: you should build that.... a Bender brewer
Simon Jansen says: Vaguely.\
David Moore says: he gets all maternal
Simon Jansen says: I could buil done out of real steel.
David Moore says: season3 episode12: The Route of All Evil
David Moore says: title refers to money, not beer


That's how the idea started and holy s$%t, these guys actually made it!
Just check out this photo set: Building Beer Brewing Blender.
Now THAT is definitely the gadget of the year.
Or maybe, it's even human's best friend of the year.
That's the future that neither William Gibson nor Ridley Scott dared to predict!

(Thanks 11Y4 & Lauris)
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Google does Lithuania

This is quite interesting: Google considers data center in Lithuania: report. Google considers embracing the powers provided by nearby power plant and cooling facilities (read: Kauno Marios). (Ta, JGO)
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Muzikos pramonės savižudybė ir naujos realijos

Mano draugas Jonas atsiuntė linką: Trent Reznor 'disheartened' by state of music industry, kuriame Trentas skundžiasi, kad tik 18% klausytojų sutiko mokėti $5 už jo prodiusuotą Soul Williams albumą (beje, aš irgi buvau tarp tų likusių 82% - nors Soulo albumas geras, sąžiningai manau, kad vargu ar šiais metais dar kartą jo klausysiu - tiesiog yra per daug kitų, naujų, įdomių albumų, miksų, podkastų etc).

Įdomūs skaičiai, bet nesenai skaičiau visai neverkšlenantį ir mano manymu, kur kas įdomesnį ir įžvalgesnį Cory Doctorow (Wired columnistas, BoingBoing blogeris ir rašytojas) interviu, kuriame jis šneka apie savo nemokamai internetu platinamos kūrybos sėkmę, skaitmeninės medijos perteklių ir paprasčiausiai nesulaikomą jos kopijavimą, del kurio nereikia ieškoti kaltų - tai tiesiog laikmečio ženklas, paradigminis poslinkis.

Uždaros įrašų keitimosi sistemos OiNK, į kurią buvo galima patekti tik pagal insaiderių kvietimą, ir kurioje sukiojosi ypač daug pačių muzikantų - uždarymas net su Interpolo įsikišimu šį rudenį sukėlė dideles bangas. Kaip visada, žiniasklaida priskiedė daug tendencingos netiesos, bet esmė tame, kad niekas upės nebeužtvenks. Įrašų pramonė, dėdama į kelnes iš baimės, JAU atliko savižudybę (A Brief History of Record Industry Suicide).

Bet geriausią postą šia tema parašė ir šiaip daug įdomaus man šiemet atvėręs dj/Rupture. Kodėl patys muzikantai palaiko "piratinį" OiNK ir nemokamą platinimą? Visiems, o ypač savo pačių subinėsna sulindusiems atlikėjams, vertėtų paskaityti: Defending the Pig - Oink Croaks - tikrai vienas stipriausių praėjusių metų tekstų.
But Pandora’s Box has been opened. Remember when Napster croaked? File-sharing is so much easier now. <...> Oink’s alleged 180,000 users won’t forget how useful it was. The next Oink will be sturdier & more multiple. The overall movement is towards more ways to share music & ideas with like-minded individuals on the internet.

The way I see it, this can only be a good thing for music fans. And what musician is not first a music fan?
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Data Wars: Should Web Giants Let Startups Use the Information They Have About You?



Wired has an interesting piece on data scrapping websites/startups, and on dangers and profits that both scrappers and scrappees - and eventually all users - face. The topics of open vs proprietary, freedom of information vs privacy are all here. The last question is: who's the owner of users' information?
But beneath all the kumbayas, there's an awkward dance going on, an unregulated give-and-take of information for which the rules are still being worked out. And in many cases, some of the big guys that have been the source of that data are finding they can't -- or simply don't want to -- allow everyone to access their information, Web2.0 dogma be damned. The result: a generation of businesses that depend upon the continued good graces of a relatively small group of Internet powerhouses that philosophically agree information should be free -- until suddenly it isn't.
Full Wired article here.
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