http://importance.corante.com/ en-us ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu 2005-07-11T09:50:23-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/11/bbc_blasted_for_making_music_freely_available.php One would think this is parody, but apparently it is not. The Independent reports that classical music labels are lambasting the BBC for making MP3s of classical music available for free download (Downloading Trouble at the BBC).The BBC has been... 6314@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-07-11T09:50:23-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/04/visions_of_the_future_from_aol_circa_1995.php This is almost unfair. Susan Crawford pulls an admiring profile of AOL from 1995 and basically allows it to make a fool of itself (Someone to Watch Over Me).Case believes that Microsoft and the Internet players are not going to... 6286@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-07-04T12:30:42-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/01/what_happens_when_we_become_the_media.php This is my last guest post here as part of the Blogger Book Tour I'm taking part in for Darknet. (Looks like a scorching, bbq-friendly holiday weekend dead ahead here in the SF Bay Area. Enjoy, folks!) I'll leave with... 6261@http://importance.corante.com/ Culture 2005-07-01T14:38:15-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/25/what_advertisers_fear_deliberate_inattention.php Doc Searls has a good post on IT Garage about deliberate inattention - ignoring things we don't want to waste time on, such as advertisements (AdTension).The holy grail of advertising is to add, rather than subtract, value for the people... 6214@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-25T00:04:58-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/24/window_into_a_virtual_world.php 6203@http://importance.corante.com/ Games 2005-06-24T15:57:19-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/24/100th_anniversary_of_pittsburghs_first_movie_theater.php Earlier this week, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette celebrated the 100th Anniversary of the movie theater (You Saw It Here First: Pittsburgh's Nickelodeon Introduced the Moving Picture Theater to the Masses in 1905). The claim isn't true, as the article notes, but... 6200@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-24T13:28:18-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/24/clearing_rights_for_a_mad_hot_documentary.php Two great posts on fair use and clearance rights on the Stay Free! Blog. The first is an interview with the director of the favorably-reviewed documentary Mad Hot Ballroom, which is about public school kids in ballroom dance competitions. The... 6197@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-24T09:25:51-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/23/creative_commons_and_the_videogame_webcomic.php The Creative Commons Weblog has a nice example of a webcomic that is adopting a Creative Commons license (Fantastic (CC)omic). No biggie do you say? Well, perhaps not, but the webcomic is based on the Castle Marrach videogame. They had... 6190@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-23T20:44:10-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/20/free_the_david.php At the beginning of the 1800s, the Elgin Marbles were removed from Greece for Britain. The outrage over this cultural theft continues."The request for the restitution of the Parthenon Marbles is not made by the Greek government in the name... 6115@http://importance.corante.com/ Copyright 2005-06-20T12:16:58-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/19/mixtapes_playlists_culture.php In From Mixtape to Playlist, Derek Slater wonders about the potentials for social recommendation tools for music.My hope is that these burgeoning taste-sharing tools can help restart a conversation about how technology can unleash a richer musical culture. We should... 6102@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-19T07:32:38-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/12/joe_gratz_enjoys_copyright_infringement.php Joe Gratz went to a live electronica show that likely featured copyright infringement after copyright infringement (Meat Beat Manifesto). Apparently he enjoyed the blatant thievery:And it all had to be illegal. Thousands upon thousands of individual infringements — each sample... 6019@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-12T22:17:29-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/12/nyt_hacking_is_good.php The New York Times comes out in favor of the "Freedom to Tinker" in an editorial that positively gushes over the new magazine Make (A New Magazine's Rebellious Credo: Void the Warranty!).Make is not just a clubhouse for guys with... 6015@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-12T08:31:34-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/11/what_the_long_tail_aint.php The Long Tail bursts the rhetorical bubble of many a marketer and buzzword aficionado (What the Long Tail Isn't). Good post on clearing the conceptual weeds.... 6014@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-11T21:27:35-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/11/joi_ito_on_the_emperor_in_japanese_culture.php Joi Ito has a fascinating post about the Japanese Emperor who, despite a varying level of influence through history, has certainly left a mark on the culture (Visiting the Old Capital).Regardless of his level of influence, the Emperor has been... 6011@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-11T20:50:17-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/11/godwin_microsofts_halo_deal_is_business_as_usual.php Mike Godwin takes a recent NY Times article (Hollywood Hardball) to task for its too ready acceptance of Hollywood's spin (That's Hardball). The article regards Microsoft's attempt to interest Hollywood in a movie based on the wildly popular Halo videogame... 6010@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-11T20:27:09-08:00