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Always Looking for a Better Point of View... a search for terrestrial intelligence and the proverbial honest man.
SoccerGossip.comShow#4 on October 19th, 2005. The English Premier League is back, so BeatleManU does his usual roundup of the weekends fixtures. Added to that, Champions League Matchday 3 and a roundup of European World Cup Qualifiers, we have quite a big show!!!
Dave Slusher interviews John Buckman, the founder of Magnatune Records, on Voices in Your Head on IT Conversations.
Magnatune Records is an online record label with the slogan "We Are Not Evil." As a company, Magnatune has embraced Creative Commons licensing, internet streaming and distribution of music, and introduced innovations such as customer-chosen pricing for albums. As of this writing, their catalog consists of 185 artists with 356 albums available and climbing. In this interview we discuss his motivations in forming Magnatune, his experiences and surprises in the first years of operation, the potentials for online distribution of music, and much more.
So because I only understand things by tinkering with them, I've decided to tinker with podcasting. I am convinced from an intellectual perspective that this one of the most important net-related developments in a long time. But I need to understand it more than intellectually. Thus, with thanks to Dave Winer and Adam Curry for start-up advice, an experiment in podcasting begins.
I have started, however, exactly where they said I should not -- reading written texts. Wired has encouraged me to podcast readings of my columns, and as that was an easy and deadline-related reason to get going, I've made that the beginning. The best of podcasting, I am told and have seen, is not read, but written. Writing in mp3 is something I hope to experiment with soon.
Until then, here is 050201 (the first, maybe the only, podcast from February, 2005): A reading of my March column in Wired, read with a very bad cold.
(Geeknote: I'm using Brandon Fuller's very cool MT-enclosures, I hope properly.)
IT Conversations' host Doug Kaye interviews Marc Canter and JD Lasica who have just launched Ourmedia.org. [Behind the Mic audio interview from IT Conversations]
Friday March 18th I did a sound seeing tour of my visit to the BBC. I edited 4 hours down to just over an hour. I removed the actual interview part, but left in my journey by cab to the studios and a lot of fun conversation, followed by my trek home with the tube (that's the subway).
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