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Posts Tagged ‘ Music’
Tech Stream 033
2 October 2009
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Triple J’s Unearthed.com, a community music site for Australian independent artists and their fans.
In the Tech Stream this week we look at some of the new tools available to music fans and artists to help them discover or share their music online. Soundcloud, RCRD LBL, We Are Hunted and Triple J Unearthed (pictured) are all featured. We also dig deeper into some of the issues around music file-sharing, free content, online promotion and streaming services. The MP3 link at the top of this post has the audio, or take the jump for more information.
Tech Stream 030
11 September 2009
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The Beatles Rock Band Game (MTV/Harmonix)
Everything is Fab in the Tech Stream this week. We’re in Port Moresby for PacInet 2009, a Pacific internet conference; all the latest on the week’s iPod and iTunes updates from Apple; and Bajo straps on his little plastic guitar for a review of the highly anticipated Beatles Rock Band video game. Listen via the MP3 link above or keep jumping for more details…
Just for the RCRD
11 September 2009
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One of the region’s biggest music industry events wraps up in Brisbane, Australia today. The Big Sound 2009 conference featured three days of panels, workshops and artist showcases for local, national and international music industry representatives. There were opportunities for networking, learning and debate, with much of the latter focusing on the future of the music industry.
One of the international guests at Big Sound was Elliot Aronow, the creative director and co-founder of RCRD LBL which descibes itself as “a network of online record labels and blogs serving up fresh new music downloads and exclusive content curated by our team of editors and partner labels every day”.
I had a chance to meet Elliot while he was in Melbourne this week and we got talking about the philosophies underpinning the way RCRD LBL operates and a range of other topics around music, mobile, streaming, free content, copyright, twitter, social media and the value of curators.
You can hear the discussion via the MP3 link above, or start discovering some new music at rcrdlbl.com
Tech Stream 027
21 August 2009
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Photo and vinylville stencil by vieeART from Flickr.
We’re joined in the Tech Stream this week by the author of Music 2.0 Gerd Leonhard. He’s a futurist who focuses on trends in technology, media and content. Gerd has some very interesting ideas about the ways we’ll be accessing and sharing music online. We’ll also be tweeting aliens and the latest technology news from the week. More after the jump, or just jump right into the program with the MP3 above.
Tech Stream 007
3 April 2009
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In the Tech Stream this week we’re speaking with IT journalist Patrick Gray about the Conficker worm; Google gives internet users in China access to free music downloads in an attempt to capture more of the lucrative search market; Georgia Webster joins us to talk about the way capital letters are used and abused online; and tech-journo Adam Turner charts the rising popularity of the Blu Ray disc.
You can listen to the full program with the MP3 link above or the “Listen Now” link on the right. Feel free to comment on any of these stories below or suggest something we can follow up in future programs.
Tech Stream 004
13 March 2009
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In the Tech Stream radio and podcast program this week we chat about digital cameras and the megapixel race; download content for our gaming consoles with Bajo from Good Game; delve into the tricky subject of licensing music content online; the even trickier task of laying thousands of kilometres of cable under the sea to carry our internets; and Steve Wozniak dances up a light rainshower in our Epic Fail segment. Use the MP3 link in this story or to the right to hear the full program.
Google and the battle over music rights
13 March 2009
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Its been an interesting week for Google-watchers and anyone interested in music or video content online. We heard about a new service called Muziic, which uses an iTunes-like interface to tap into content on YouTube. It was started by a David Nelson, a 15 year old teenager, and enables users to stream YouTube’s music to their PCs without the videos. The site has yet to receive the blessing of Google, who own Youtube, but the company has raised concerns that it violates the video site’s API.
But Google have a lot more on their plate this week. They’re launching a new VOIP-like service to rival Skype. Google Voice will offer a single number for home, work and mobile phones and also turn your voicemail into an email. The service is built on top of Grand Central, a company they acquired in 2007. So far Google Voice is only available to current Grand Central users, and it isn’t clear if it will work for people outside the United States.
Also in the news this week is that Youtube is blocking certain copyrighted music videos in Britain, in a dispute with the UK’s Performing Rights Society for Music, the PRS. The block affects only premium music videos – those supplied by the record companies – but it raises some interesting questions about how content is licensed and funded in the digital world.
Elliott Bledsoe is a researcher at the Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation at the Queensland University of Technology. I asked him what he thought google were hoping to achieve by blocking this content. You can listen to our chat via the MP3 link at the top of this story.
