After a short explanation of podcasting, Motormanmark.com offers the ten greatest podcasting sites on Earth. (This is an update for those of you who read last year’s entry.)
New to podcasting? Well, a podcast is a sound file you can get off the internet—anything from interviews to reviews to informative shows or lectures. All you need [...]
In today’s Times, Maureen Dowd worries about internet slander and the ability of people to hurt one another with anonymous speech.
Seems to me there is a point at which an insult becomes detached from its victim. It’s the difference between saying somebody is a convicted felon and that they smell like fish. One of those [...]
Intellectual property–a better term for which would be “idea property”–is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, promising to allow individuals to dominate what they create, what is a self-glorifyingly spiritual ideal, as if our physical reality can be left behind and we can accompany our ideas wherever they wander in the ether. Just as much, though, the concept seeks to ubiquitously chill and control what I do with what has come into my eyes and ears, what has become my human experience. The more media I engage, however passively, the more of an automaton I become–the more my experience is owned by another, the less of it that is mine to claim. An artist should crow against this, and if it weren’t for their dreams of hitting the idea lottery, maybe US artists would.
After a short explanation of podcasting, Motormanmark.com offers the ten greatest podcasting sites on Earth.
New to podcasting? Well, a podcast is a sound file you can get off the internet—anything from interviews to reviews to informative shows or lectures. All you need is an mp3 player.
An mp3 is a sound file you have on [...]
You know that fine print you have to click “I agree” to whenever you register at an internet site. What if you were held criminally liable for not reading it?
Lori Drew, the Missouri woman (who evidently rose from the 7th layer of hell,) who taunted a little girl into killing herself through email, was just [...]
