Links for 13-07-2007
Nobel winning author gives it away, stealth ads on TV, a wet hot jupiter (kind of), how DRM becomes law, Rushkoff on crowdsoucing (hint: he’s not keen) …
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1 - Nobel Prize Winner Writes Her New Novel Online (for free)
“… what makes Jelinek’s situation so amazing is that she’s a recluse who “cloisters herself inside her homes in Vienna and Munich, Germany, and rarely ventures out in public.””
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2 - ‘Stealth Advertising’ Sliding Under Radar Into TV Newscasts
“Advertisers’ messages are infiltrating small-market television newscasts at about the same percentage that owners of digital video recorders are skipping the commercials, say researchers at the University of Oregon.”
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3 - Water Vapor on a Hot Jupiter
“… this hot Jupiter, some 63 light years away in the constellation Vulpecula, may be telling us that water is as abundant in at least one other solar system as it is in our own.”
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4 - A Behind-The-Scenes Look At How DRM Becomes Law
“Cory Doctorow looks at the back room dealing that allowed entertainment companies and electronics companies to craft public policy on digital rights management.”
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5 - Code Beautifiers And Formatters
“The tools and services we’ve collected below aren’t validators. They format and beautify the code; some of them can remove redundant elements.” Handy stuff for web-dev types.
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6 - What Does Crowdsourcing Really Mean?
Interview with Douglas Rushkoff: “From religion, novels and back again. The strength of community and the dangers of crowdsourcing.” Fascinating ideas, including the notion of open-source religion (yes, really).
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7 - OK X: A Tribute to OK Computer
“To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Radiohead’s OK Computer we’ve asked some of our favorite musicians to participate in a song-by-song covers compilation.” wh00t!
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July 13th, 2007 at 8:57 am
Re: OK_X - interesting. Some of those guys were just trying way too hard to be different and experimental (out Radiohead-ing Radiohead?) but I thought the tracks that were the strongest were actually the stripped-back, acoustic or minimalist ones. Well worth grabbing the zip file though, ta for the heads-up!
And it made me stick the original into my playlist right afterward though, so that’s no bad thing…