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Updates to playlist: 2009 Jazz Festival

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Updates to playlist: volume 36

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Wang Dang Doodle

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Updates to playlist: volume 35

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Imeem Mobile Reaches One Millionth Install

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Imeem Mobile Reaches One Millionth Install (Imeem Blog)

Imeem's iPhone App

Imeem, perhaps best known for offering free (ad backed) on-demand online music streaming from the four major labels, has followed up the mobile version of the service it created for the G1 Android phone on T-Mobile with a new iPhone app, which will become available in Apple’s App Store May 20.

Imeem's Android App

According to Imeem, the app will allow fans to create custom playlists, get personalized music recommendations and download songs from iTunes. It also includes MyMusic, a feature that lets users browse and stream any of the 20,000 songs imeem allows them to upload to their imeem profile via the iPhone. That’s about 80 GB of music accessible from the iPhone without having to store any of it directly on the phone, which only has between 8-16 GB of capacity.

Imeem’s app offers two key elements: a radio function that streams songs from a given artist mixed with similar fare, and a “My Music” section that allows streaming access to a user’s own library of uploaded songs. The latter essentially expands the music storage capacity of the iPhone, with one catch: Users must pay for a storage locker of more than 100 songs. The iPhone’s relatively limited storage capacity (up to 16MGB, including apps and other software besides music files) isn’t enough for most serious music fans, so Imeem is providing an avenue to iPod-like capacity via a cloud-based subscription service, so that listeners don’t have to carry a second piece of hardware.

The app itself will be free to download, and just like the Android version will be fully supported with advertising, while the Imeem library of up to 20,000 songs will cost via subscription plans that range from about $30 to $100 annually.

At launch, it will not have a brand sponsor—as the Android app did in Kia—but Imeem has offered that it is in talks with several companies now and expects to announce something soon.

source/credits:
Billboard
gigaom.com

Related:
WIRED on how the Imeem app overcomes the iPhone's storage limitations

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A Story Worth Repeating

Big Deal Book Store bigdealbooks.com — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:27:11 -0000

A "Wikipedia hoax" by a 22-year-old Dublin student resulted in a fake
quote being published in newspaper obituaries around the world.

'Building The Barn' from the movie, 'Witness.' Music scored and conducted by Jarre.

The phony quote, attributed to Maurice Jarre who died at the end of March, appeared everywhere in obituaries for the French composer.

It was posted on the online encyclopedia shortly after his death and later appeared in obituaries published in the Guardian, the London Independent, on the BBC Music Magazine
website and in Indian and Australian newspapers.

“One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack. Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head, that only I can hear,” Jarre was quoted as saying.

However, these words were not uttered by the Oscar-winning composer but written by Shane Fitzgerald, a final-year undergraduate student studying sociology and economics at University College Dublin.

Mr Fitzgerald said he placed the quote on the website as an experiment when
doing research on globalisation.

He wanted to show how journalists use the internet as a primary source and how people are connected especially through the internet, he said.

He picked Wikipedia because it was something a lot of journalists look at and it can be edited by anyone, he told The Irish Times.

Fitzgerald posted the quote on Wikipedia late at night after news of Jarre’s death broke. “I saw it on breaking news and thought if I was going to do something I should do it quickly. I knew journalists wouldn’t be looking at it until the morning,” he said

The quote had no referenced sources and was therefore taken down by moderators of Wikipedia within minutes. However, Fitzgerald put it back a few more times until it was finally left up on the site for more than 24 hours.

While he was wary about the ethical implications of using someone’s death as a social experiment, he had carefully generated the quote so as not to distort or taint Jarre’s life, he said.

Fitzgerald was shocked by the result of his experiment.

“I didn’t expect it to go that far. I expected it to be in blogs and sites, but on mainstream quality papers? I was very surprised about,” he said.

However, the hoax remained undiscovered for weeks until Fitzgerald e-mailed offending newspapers to tell them that they had published an inaccurate quote.

“I don’t think it would have been found out unless I had told them so,” Fitzgerald said yesterday. In recent days the Guardian printed a correction and an article about the hoax.

Fitzgerald admits that he is not a sophisticated hacker or technology junkie. “I’m capable of using a computer but I’m not a whizz. Anyone can go in and edit anonymously,” he said.

While the quote is no longer part of the Wikipedia article, evidence of edits of the quote in the Maurice Jarre article from a Dublin-based computer at the end of March can be seen in the Wikipedia edit history.

Despite having been removed from Wikipedia, BBC Music Magazine and Daily Mail websites and corrected by the Guardian, the quote last night remained intact on dozens of blogs, websites and newspapers.

This article originally appeared in the print edition of The Irish Times
Source : irishtimes.com

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Shane Fitzgerald, etudiant en sociologie et economie a l'University College de Dublin a fait une experience dans le cadre de ses recherches sur la globalisation.

Resultat: une fausse citation de Maurice Jarre a circule sur toute la planete web, au damne des journalistes.

Mis a mal par ce jeune etudiant irlandais, les journalistes ont repris tel quel, une citation imputee au compositeur francais, peu de temps apres sa mort, en mars dernier. De nombreux quotidiens britanniques, australiens et indiens, ainsi qu’une importante communaute de bloggeurs ont mis dans sa necrologie les deux phrases suivantes: "On pourrait dire que ma vie elle-même a ete une musique de film. La musique etait ma vie, la musique m'a donne la vie, et la musique est ce pourquoi je vais rester dans les memoires longtemps apres que je quitterai cette vie". "Quand je mourrai, il y aura une derniere valse jouant dans ma tete, que je pourrai seul entendre".

Shane Fitzgerald a ajoute cette citation au profil de Maurice Jarre sur la plateforme Wikipedia.

Il a explique que dans le cadre de ses recherches, il avait poste ce texte en tout etat de cause: les journalistes consultent regulierement le site. Du coup, The Guardian et The Independant notamment se sont laisses prendre au piege.

Veritablement destabilise par l’ampleur que sa citation a pu prendre, Shane Fitzgerald s’est dit "choque, ne s’attendant pas a ce que ca se retrouve sur des journaux de qualite." La tromperie n’a ete connue du grand public seulement par l’intermediaire de son auteur. Voyant le phenomene se developper, il a envoye un mail aux principaux journaux les informant du piege.

Source : excite.fr

First music download trial may get a do-over

Big Deal Book Store bigdealbooks.com — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:24:15 -0000

A Minnesota woman ordered to pay $222,000 in the nation's first music download trial may get another chance with a jury.

Source : Los Angeles Times
Originally posted on May 16, 2008

MINNEAPOLIS
The recording industry has sued thousands of people who shared music online, and has argued that all they have to prove is that the defendant made the music available. They compared it to someone displaying pirated DVDs for sale on a table.

Music-sharers have argued that the only proven downloaders of their music were investigators working for the record companies themselves.

That was the case in the trial last fall of Jammie Thomas of Brainerd, Minn. U.S. District Court Judge Michael J. Davis instructed jurors that making sound recordings available without permission violates record company copyrights "regardless of whether actual distribution has been shown."

On Thursday Davis said that may have been a mistake.

He wrote that he found a 1993 ruling from the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Minnesota, that said infringement requires "an actual dissemination of either copies or phonorecords."

The question of how much the record companies have to prove to win their case came up just before it went to the jury on Oct. 4. Davis decided the issue from the bench, siding with the jury instruction favored by the record companies.

On Thursday, Davis wrote that neither side presented the 1993 decision to him. And he noted that one of the rulings in another case from Arizona, which the record companies used to support their side, was vacated on April 29.

Oral arguments on the question of a new trial are planned for July 1 in Duluth, where the trial was held.

Record company attorney Richard Gabriel said even if the companies have to prove downloading occurred, it should suffice to show downloading by investigators working for the record companies.

He said they also proved at the trial that Thomas violated the copyright because the files on her computer bore the signatures of online music pirates. Thomas claimed the music came from her own CDs.

"If we have to retry the case, we will do so without hesitation," he said.

Record companies have sued at least 30,000 people for distributing music online. Some cases have been dismissed, and many defendants settled for a few thousand dollars. Thomas, who makes $36,000 a year working for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, was the first to take the record companies all the way to a trial.

Jurors ordered her to pay $222,000, which was $9,250 for each of the 24 songs record companies brought up in her trial. The original lawsuit accused her of offering 1,702 songs on the Kazaa file-sharing network.

Thomas has not yet had to pay the verdict while it has been on appeal, her attorney, Brian Toder, said on Thursday. Toder, of the Minneapolis law firm of Chestnut & Cambronne, said he's in talks with the record companies to settle the case.

Source : Los Angeles Times

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