Dec
03

Top 10 Ways to Feature & Flaunt Your Music Online

Exposing your music to the masses is getting easier.  With free or inexpensive digital distribution sites you can raise your musical integrity from basement band or bedroom dj to a position of indie rocker or electronic prodigy in a matter of clicks n’ scrolls.  Sites like MySpace are putting control back into the hands of… Continue reading »

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Oct
17

Cell phone as musical instrument

This is seriously cool, especially if users have better control over sound outputs (e.g. using guitar, bass, beats, synth, or samples). Guitar Hero, move over. Cell phone symphony

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Sep
09

Harvesting From the Network

As autumn approaches minds turn to harvests, turkey and reasons to give thanks, so I’ve asked my assistant, Tanaz Irani to gather us a bunch of ideas…! On how to monetize social networks. Social Networking & the Power of Millions of Clicks by Tanaz Irani (Spec. Hon. B.A, Pol.Sci.) The fundamentally fluid, non-centered and non-linearly… Continue reading »

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Aug
27

What’s Behind a Domain Name

The outcomes of domain name disputes, and trademark oppositions involving marks used on the Internet, increasingly depend on a lot more than having a similar or even an identical mark. Jeff Behrendt has recently published an article called “Canadian Domain Laws” which contains an interview with lawyer Zak Muscovitch (http://www.domainbits.com/canadian-domain-laws). The upshot is that in… Continue reading »

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May
24

Liquid Audio, Liquid World

Moses Avalon has written a short but well-reasoned defence of copyright entitled “Da Vinci On a Necktie.” Speaking about the “RIAA/ISP war” over music and how it should be delivered and consumed, Avalon sees copyright in terms of preventing the loss to our culture of the power and magic of music. It’s not yet posted… Continue reading »

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