Many years ago in another galaxy far, far away, I was part of a musician and composer crew that created tons of advertising for TV and radio. Our story today begins when my group was up for a national ad campaign for a major retail brand. Our version of the campaign was a very lean […]
From Wikipedia: Process The steps to run the network and generate or “mine” bitcoins are as follows: New transactions are broadcast to all nodes. Each node collects new transactions into a block. Each node works on finding a difficult proof-of-work for its block. When a node finds a proof-of-work, it broadcasts the block to all […]
An enlightening short interview with the incomparable John Pointer, artist extraordinaire and founder of Patronism.com a prime example of artists helping artists–and based in Austin, Texas, right where you’d expect to find great artists and great music companies. We did an interview with John last year in the Huffington Post that covers some background on […]
Originally posted on Music Technology Policy:
[3/31/13 Update by Editor Charlie: We now know courtesy of Google’s DMCA Transparency Report that Google processes roughly 10,000,000 DMCA notices a month for search alone which Google acknowledges to be 97% accurate. It also seems likely that the Google lobbyist had some idea or actually knew of this…
Thank God it’s over. This week’s bands from Austin (the other 50 weeks of the year), selected by the ultimate arbiter of taste. Via Semaphore Music. 1. Wild Child (Austin) “Darling Divine” @wildchildsounds 2. Little Radar (Austin) “Spitfire” @littleradar 3. Megafauna (Austin) “Scratch the Latch” @megafaunaATX Vinyl release show at Mohawk 3/30 4. The Preservation […]
So…another day brings more confusion in the world of “PIRACY IS PROGRESS” or “ARTISTS VS. ARTISTS” or whatever this thing is titled. The thing is that American Eagle Outfitters told me that using the image below (which has appeared in many other stories about this PR debacle) is misleading because the other side of this […]
“It’s possible to make forgetting impossible, because we can all wear our Google Glasses that will store everything we see. Whereas if you actually thought deeply about the role of forgetting in enabling us to become who we are, perhaps you would actually find some redeeming features to that process.” –Evgeny Morozov, quoted in the […]
Originally posted on The Trichordist:
As we have detailed here many many times on The Trichordist, the advertising industry profits by selling advertising to pirate sites like http://www.webgalu.com. But we were mightily surprised to see advertising firm TBWA Chiat Day, apparently doubling down and actually running billboards in Times Square that say things like “Piracy…
Recall that the Little Black Book advertising insider website ran a story about the “PIRACY IS THE FUTURE” campaign in which it credited American Eagle Outfitters and Mr. Brad Spang in connection with the Chiat Day campaign. I spoke to Mr. Brad Spang at American Eagle Outfitters this morning who said that neither American Eagle […]
According to the Little Black Book advertising agency insider site, the “PIRACY IS THE FUTURE” campaign is produced by a very high level advertising agency that typically would be very expensive. Very expensive. And of course they are taking out billboards in Times Square–a place where only the richest 1% of the 1% can afford […]
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