Tag: web 2.0
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The New Statesman’s NuLab IT Awards
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Andrew Orlowski
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Although the New Statesman magazine’s annual New Media Awards (NMA) don’t quite match up to the EFF’s annual Nepotism Award – nothing quite does – they’re still a rich source of humour and embarrassment. Getting an NMA is the equivalent of getting an orange at half time from the coach of your village football team,…
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Futurist’s music widget goes titsup 2.0
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Andrew Orlowski
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Music’s best-known “futurist” has admitted his latest business idea has flopped and the service will close. Gerd Leonard of “Music 2.0” fame, who popularised the phrase “music flows like water”, has discovered that on the internet, revenue flows like set cement. His company Sonific, which allows bloggers to embed a widget that plays music, will…
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Billy Bragg: Why should songwriters starve so others get rich?
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Andrew Orlowski
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Billy Bragg interviewed. With audio, it’s all here.… Read More
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Anti-trust looms over major labels legal blitz
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Andrew Orlowski
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Serial entrepreneur Michael Robertson is embroiled in a legal fight against the recording business – and not for the first time. His MP3Tunes locker service has raised the ire of EMI in a case that continues this week. But isn’t it weird, he asks, how the Big Four divvy up the litigation against music start-ups…
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Nathan Barleys mourn Great Lost Quango
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Andrew Orlowski
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Soho’s Nathan Barleys were in mourning yesterday after Ofcom chief Ed Richards abandoned his shape-shifting flagship, the “Public Service Publisher” quango. Richards said in a speech to the Royal Television Society on Tuesday night that the “the PSP as a concept has served its purpose and we can move on to the relevant questions for…
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Trivia crisis: Wikipedia’s bogus Professor resigns
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Andrew Orlowski
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After pressure over the weekend from Wikipedia’s Il Duce Jimmy Wales, the encyclopedia’s most illustrious fake professor Ryan Jordan has resigned his post at Wikia Inc. An assiduous editor with the nickname “Essjay”, the 24-year old Jordan passed himself off as an older and more mature character: a Professor of Theology with two PhDs –…