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The Revolution will not be Terrorised

Aug 7 2005
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War is good for the eco­nomy, like can­ni­ba­lism is nutritious

Bris­tol born Banksy has been in the news as of late, his art on the Pales­tine West Bank Barrier has cau­sed quite a stir. He’s pop­ping up all over the media.

DanSTC says (and I agree): This in my opi­nion, is exactly what the *best* kind of art can and should be about. Cha­llen­ging people’s per­cep­tions, and pro­vi­ding a means of com­men­ting on the ludic­rous­ness of real life. The man, Banksy, is a true art-warrior. Abso­lute genius. 

Yahoo Launches Audio Search (impressive)

Aug 4 2005

Saw this on Insi­de­Goo­gle,

quote:
Yahoo has appa­rently deci­ded that, now that they have an ad net­work tar­ge­ted at blog­gers, it is time for them to release all of their blog-related ser­vi­ces in deve­lop­ment. As a result, here is Yahoo Audio Search, which can find you pod­casts. Accor­ding to The New York Times, Yahoo claims to have inde­xed 50 million music, voice and other audio files.

The ser­vice will also dis­play links to the online sites where users can pay to down­load a song. Most major music sites have agreed to send Yahoo lists of their songs and pay a com­mis­sion on every song sold. The current ver­sion of the ser­vice has no adver­ti­sing, but Mr. Horo­witz said ads might be added later.

You can refine your searches by music, pod­casts or other audio, by song, artist or album, by for­mat (RAM, MP3, MIDI, WMA or AAC) by dura­tion (more or less than a minute), by web & audio ser­vi­ces or audio ser­vi­ces only, and by major relea­ses or to inc­lude alter­na­tes, imports, EPs, etc.. Smartly, the pod­cast results have links to the RSS feeds.

http://​audio​.search​.yahoo​.com/

This is an extre­mely nifty release. Take these exam­ple searches and results:
(Pur­po­sely tes­ting with les­ser known artists)

Vene­tian Sna­res: Search
Clic­king the artist brings up a dis­co­graphy and list of albums.
Clic­king the song gives a list of legal loca­tions for down­load, cost, qua­lity, for­mat, abi­lity to burn to cd,
Quick links inc­lude Y! music link to artist, bio­graphys and reviews.
There is also a matching artists page on the right hand side to give quick access to dis­co­graphies of searched terms.

From the dis­co­graphy page:
For­mat: Album Cover, Title (Record Label, Year of Release)
Sort relea­ses by popu­la­rity, date and title.
On the right Yahoo auto­ma­ti­cally searches ima­ges, the web and video and dis­plays the first results from each in a sin­gle column.
Find CD link under each album links to Yahoo shop­ping and gives a list of online out­lets to purchase the cd.
For more well known artists there are “Simi­lar artist” links also.

Clic­king an album cover takes you to the ” album brow­ser”:
This lets you quickly browse an artists albums. On clic­king from the brow­ser you are pre­sen­ted with a trac­klis­ting and all the avai­la­ble legal online down­load loca­tions for that song.

You can also select your pre­fe­rred audio ser­vice from one of these:

quote:
None
Artist­Di­rect
Audio­Lunch­box
Buy​Mu​sic​.com
dMu­sic
eMu­sic
Epi­to­nic
Gara­ge­Band
iTu­nes
Live­down­loads
MP34U
MSN Music
Music­match
Naps­ter
Pas­sA­long
Real­Pla­yer Music Store
Rhap­sody
SoundC­lick
Yahoo! Music Unli­mi­ted

Moving on to Pod­casts:
Search for engad­get: Engad­get Pod­cast
Notice the last published date and direct link to the RSS feeds.
Here’s another pod­cast search: BBC

There’s also an “other audio” option which I have yet to try.

Various Artists — Camping (Bpitch Control)

Aug 3 2005
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 Title: Cam­ping (Label: Bpitch Con­trol)
Artist: Various inc­lu­ding Kiki, Ellen Allien, Mode­se­lek­tor, Smash TV
Style: “A sim­ple mix-and-match of the best cuts from the label’s dis­co­graphy, Cam­ping show­ca­ses six years worth of per­mu­ta­tions of Ber­li­nes­que techno and techno-pop. From the goofy bass­li­nes of Housemeister’s “Do You Wanna Funk” and the gloopy voco­de­red pop of Smash TV’s “Sad” to the razor-sharp techno of Feadz’ “Lt Replay” and the per­sis­tent glitch of Modeselektor’s “Don’t Panic”, it pole vaults from one style to another, with only a stead­fastly Ger­ma­nic spi­rit hol­ding it together.”
Review: Pitch­fork
My Rating: 7/10

Trac­klist:
01 kiki — luvv sikk 3:54
02 syl­vie marks & hal 9000 — we elec­tric 3:19
03 paul kalk­bren­ner– stein­beis­ser 3:28
04 ellen allien — wish 3:42
05 mode­se­lek­tor — don’t panic 3:52
06 syl­vie marks & hal 9000 — blu­tens­pab 3:31
07 sascha funke — forms & sha­pes 3:53
08 paul kalk­bren­ner — queer­fe­llow 3:36
09 kiki & sil­ver­sur­fer — wasp 3:50
00 10 ellen allien — sehn­sucht 3:50
00 11 hou­se­mei­ser — do you wanna funk 3:58
12 tim­tim — atwa­ter ca appa­rat mix 3:19
13 feadz — lt replay 3:50
00 14 tomas anders­son — numb 3:41
15 ellen allien — stadt­kind 3:23
16 smash — tv sad 3:46
17 sascha funke — when will i be famous 3:35
18 kiki — end of the world 3:49
19 smash tv — what about me 3:49
20 tim­tim — patron of the bad come­dians 3:24

Inside BBC

Aug 2 2005

Say hello to the latest mem­ber of the tri­vial being network. 

Inside BBC: http://​bbc​.tri​vial​being​.net

The aim of this site is to docu­ment and inform you of the latest inno­va­tions, chan­ges, artic­les and impro­ve­ments made at the bri­tish broad­cas­ting company’s (BBC) web­site and elsewhere. Such as their inte­rac­tive media pla­yer and open source plans.

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