CerebralMix 2013-05-05

Comments: The previous episode of CerebralMix had been a bit too much on the pop side of music for my taste.  There’s nothing wrong with pop music, but I like to try to mix things up a bit more for the show.  I like to find ways to mix styles of music that you wouldn’t …

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CerebralMix 2013-04-28

Comments: This was the first episode of CerebralMix for 2013.  It had been several years since I originally started the podcast of this show, and honestly I had kind of written off reviving it.  Then there was the fateful interview on the Music Manumit Podcast.  Myself and RynoTheBearded were interviewed by Tom and Doug about …

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Free Culture On Android: Sonic Squirrel

The range of Creative Commons music that gets the most exposure is on sites like Jamendo, BandCamp, and Magnatune. However there are many different netlabels that get a lot less exposure.  To understand SonicSquirrel, a short history of netlabels and the demoscene is essential. Netlabels arose in the late 1990′s from the demoscene.  The original demoscene originated in the …

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Oh Google! Please Stahp!!

So, the new version of G+ was released today.  And, I’m sure that they had very good intentions with the new layout for the most part.  Unfortunately, there are several fails. At first I thought the new multi-column layout looked good.  Afterall, it’s not too terribly different from the layout of CerebralRift: three columns, tiled, …

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Follow-Up: Switching To TT-RSS

I wrote over a month ago about open source RSS readers in the light of the announced shutdown of Google Reader.  The deadline for that shutdown is approaching fairly soon (July 1st, 2013). At the time I was using Feed on Feeds (FoF) for my RSS reading. However, as I noted, the user interface for …

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