Return journey in the blogsphere

When I started this site I wanted it to be a brain dump.  More about the jumps between thoughts, and the non-apparent connections between those thoughts. Then I started reviewing stuff, and writing music reviews. They consumed the site. Then I started CerebralMix Pod/OggCast and it consumed the site.  Went on this way for most of …

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Who could beat iBooks and iPad?

While there has been a lot of media chatter over the iPad (see references) and the iBooks application, no one is asking the serious questions, and believe me, there are a lot of them to consider.  Here’s a couple of them that need to be discussed a lot more: What will compete with iBooks and …

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Review: OG – 01

I have to say that I was initially skeptical about this release on Jamendo: it was another case where the artist solicited a review of his work.  If you recall, I ended up writing a somewhat mixed review (see Review: Bielebny – Punxsutawney).  Yet, this artists request was quite courteous and drew my interest.  But, …

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Recent Changes at Facebook

There is something about Facebook that I have just come to not trust.  I think the issue centers around the changes in their policies of late that have left me feeling a little less secure, and feeling like it’s more and more likely that my personal information could be shared without me really realizing that …

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Editorial: Jamendo’s Future

According to a recent article in TechCrunch (Digital music startup Jamendo runs out of steam, mulls sale) Jamendo is running out of funds from it’s initial investment from Mangrove Capital Partners, and therefore is seeking a new investor. This  is bad news for the Libre Culture movement / CreativeCommons.  But, there are several things about …

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Sunday Re-spin #1

So, this post is a summary of a few things that I’ve done over the last week that you might have missed on the site for various reasons (like I don’t send out notices for every page I create, only the new articles). Last weekend I really got the site rock-n-rolling with several additions and …

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