October 2008
We all sit in the waiting room until November 4th.
What is “mastering,” anyway?
It’s something they do to albums that costs money. We’re not falling for it. See, our record label is what’s referred to in the industry as “totally ghetto.” We don’t like the idea of dropping thousands of dollars on a release, and then having crates and crates of unsold merchandise cluttering up our bedroom for the next twelve years. So let’s keep the overhead low and pass the savings on to you, consumer!
What’s that hissing sound I hear sometimes?
It’s called “tape hiss” (see “mastering” above). Just pretend it’s raining outside and that’s the sound of the drips on the window— it’s really pretty much the same thing. And be glad I didn’t answer that question with “Must be that big snake crawling up your neck.”
But hey, doesnt it, like, bother you that it’s, well, not “perfect”?
I don’t understand what you mean. It is perfect.
Technology/ Reuters
“The Internet is not just changing the way people live but altering the way our brains work with a neuroscientist arguing this is an evolutionary change which will put the tech-savvy at the top of the new social order.
Gary Small, a neuroscientist at UCLA in California who specializes in brain function, has found through studies that Internet searching and text messaging has made brains more adept at filtering information and making snap decisions.
But while technology can accelerate learning and boost creativity it can have drawbacks as it can create Internet addicts whose only friends are virtual and has sparked a dramatic rise in Attention Deficit Disorder diagnoses.
Small, however, argues that the people who will come out on top in the next generation will be those with a mixture of technological and social skills.
“We’re seeing an evolutionary change. The people in the next generation who are really going to have the edge are the ones who master the technological skills and also face-to-face skills,” Small told Reuters in a telephone interview.
“They will know when the best response to an email or Instant Message is to talk rather than sit and continue to email.”
In his newly released fourth book “iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind,” Small looks at…”
From Clint Boulton / eweek:
1. New Media - Old media was about stiff distribution channels, big-studio creators and power brokers. New Media is about flexible distribution channels, self-created content and broad participation. Content moves from isolation to interaction.
2. Living in a New Reality
3. Social Power - Leveraging the power inherent in connected people is disrupting how we locate and retain expertise, collaborate, advertise, lend money and even listen to music. New business strategies harnessing social power put a premium on relationships and what others say and do, and tap the viral capability of social networks as distribution channels for advertising, software applications and more.
4. Information Transparency - Information that was once cloaked in darkness — inaccessible or nonexistent — is now available in droves, shedding light on previously opaque people, processes and things.
5. New Wave of Waves
6. Platform Makeover
7. Smart(er) World
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