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Picasa goes CC

embe — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:42:13 +0200

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national public broadcaster starts a social site

embe — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:53:12 +0200

This came under my attention via the official CC blog: "The ABC, Australia's national public broadcaster, just launched a CC-friendly social media space, Pool, which is designed to provide a "place for creative content makers to upload their work, publish and collaborate". Pool offers users the ability to upload their content - whatever the medium - under the full suite of CC licences (as well as All Rights Reserved) for other users to reuse and share."
So, this public broadcaster gives a good example of keeping public content open for the public. But i'm afraid there is still a lot of work to do: public broadcasters have to put all their content in the public, because they are being paid by the tax payers. So, all content must be given back to the people who funded it, not by selling it, but by putting it on the internet with an open license. Compare it with open source in governmental institutions.

commercial or not commercial?

embe — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:27:47 +0200

40 years ago, in the magical year 1968, rock was about rebellion, anti-capitalism and non-conformism. Nowadays, rock seems to have lost its spirit in favour of money and clever marketeers, resulting in mainstream alternative shit on the radio.
This clip has nothing to do with netlabels, but it could have been in those days, when all these bands were unknown and exploring the musical limits with no commercial purpose, but rather freeing the spirits and minds.
31 august 1968, Pink Floyd at Kastival in Kasterlee, and that is in the middle of nowhere in Belgium. Earlier that year, they also passed Leuven on their tour: anyone been there, in the 'Rijschool'?

Welcome, Zdnet readers

embe — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:55:30 +0200

Yes, we're being blogged in one of the most popular computer netzines, Zdnet.be and Zdnet.nl. For those readers, i will give some tips to where to start netlabelism.
++ If you're a music fan, you can start to download music by the style of music you like. Warning: out of respect for the artist, i have no direct links to the files, rather a link to the release page, so you also have info about the artist, and you can download the cover as well.
++ If you want to browse by yourselve through the wonderful world of netlabels, there is a short subjective list of the most important netlabels to start.
++ If you want to read about netlabels because you're a student, journalist, researcher, i've compiled a bibliograpy. Because most of the netlabels work with a Creative Commons license, so they can distribute music without lawyers, i've also collected information about this license in the same link.
++ If you have no time, but want to have a quick overview of netlabels, you can download very good compilations from phlow magazine and Blocsonic. In the future netlabelism.net is going to review some classic netlabel compilations, and we are also going to set up our own line of compilations by style. You may expect the first release in october, a compilation of the best of electro in the netlabel scene.
++ If you have lots of time, you can navigate in netlabel world with all the links in the navigation section at the left.
++ For the rest, you can do a search on this blog via the search box at the top right.

Have a nice sonic trip around the wonderful world of netlabels!

Phonocake 50th release on a ... cassette!

embe — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:25:58 +0200

Phonocake releases 50th sonic cake "Jugendsünden / Follies of youth", a compilation, on a cassette tape: "Matching the old school spirit that comes with the 10-years-review we decided to present this release only on cassette. It's not the best way in distribution, especially when being a netlabel, but we also want to show the disadvantages of limited media."

Cake bakers are: Madstyle, Bad Comfort, Al Magnifico, Trans Alp, Sören Matschiste, parmon, Peter Venus, AAA, Deftype, Alec Troniq, Noise-Beyond-Silence and Granufunk.
More piece of a cake here.

From an older release:Trans Alp - Lied der Bergarbeiter Strom [phoke32]

Expo '58

embe — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:00:07 +0200

If you can't get enough of the Expo '58 itching, here are some more links:

useful links

embe — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:18:28 +0200

I've added some useful links to copyright websites, definitions in general and particularly for Belgium. Interesting stuff for students, researchers and educators.
Have a look in "links > basics".
You will also find in "links > listen" the link to breipott, the nice bar in Berlin, which i blogged about already.

copy & paste from 1942, starring Adolf

embe — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:28:55 +0200

"Gen. Adolf Takes Over, 1942/01/07" is an excellent piece of pre-historic sampling and copy & paste-ism, apparently with bits from 'Triumph of the Will' (Leni Riefenstahl). It' s placed in the public domain by Universal Studios.

Suck my disc!

embe — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:12:11 +0200

SonnyJim - Suck My Disc [SonnyJim Music]
Video by Martin Schlecht