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Ahnold Lost in Translation
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Telegraph | News | Police warn iPod users after spate of thefts
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BitTorrent
What is BitTorrent?
BitTorrent is a fast, powerful, and spyware-free way to download large files online. Instead of downloading files from a central server, you download from other people who are also downloading the file, instead of from a single central server. The more people downloading a file, the faster it will be for everyone.
How do I download a file?
Installing the BitTorrent plugin takes less than 10 seconds. If you’re a Windows user, click here and choose “Open” to install. (Mac or Unix users, look here.) After it’s installed, click the filename below to download!
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The Untitled Project
The Untitled Project is rooted in a base interest in the nature of power. With the removal of all traces of text from the photographs, the project explores the manifestation of power between large groups of people in the form of public and semi-public language. The absence of the printed word not only draws attention to the role text plays in the modern landscape but also simultaneously emphasizes alternative forms of communication such as symbols, colors, architecture and corporate branding. In doing this, it serves to point out the growing number of ways in which public voices communicate without using traditional forms of written language.
The reintroduction of the text takes written language out of the context of its intended viewing environment. The composition of the layouts remain true to the composition of their corresponding photographs in order to draw attention to relative size, location and orientation. The isolation of the text from its original graphic design and accompanying logos, photographs and icons helps to further explore the nature of communication in the urban landscape as a combination of visual and literal signifiers.
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BuzzMachine… by Jeff Jarvis
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Better stats for typepad
Here are two free stats sites that actually work quite well.
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SXSW /2004_video
SXSW Video is up. VIA Blogumentary
Lots of good stuff from Film [Jonathan Demme, Jim Moore of Bush’s Brain, Richard Linklater and Jim Jarmusch] and Interactive [Moveon.org keynote, Trippi, Neil Pollack, Justin Hall & Friends on the future of blogging] and, yes, Little Richard
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Oil tanker named for National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice
VIA way down here:
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Empirical data on file-sharing’s effect on album sales
Koleman Strumpf’s Home Page VIA Boing Boing.
BOING BOING:
“Koleman Strumpf, a conservative, Cato-affiliated economist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has just co-authored a paper on the effects of file-sharing on album sales, based on the first-ever empirical data analysis in the field. Koleman watched the file requests on OpenNap servers (to get numbers on which albums’ tracks are being downloaded) and compared them to the sales-figures for each album, correlating file-sharing popularity against sales data. His conclusion: file-sharing isn’t killing record sales.”Koleman Strumpf’s Home Page:
We analyze a large file sharing dataset which includes 0.01% of the world’s downloads from the last third of 2002. We focus on users located in the U.S. Their audio downloads are matched to the album they were released on, for which we have concurrent U.S. weekly sales data. This allows us to consider the relationship between downloads and sales. To establish causality, we instrument for downloads using technical features related to file sharing (such as network congestion or song length) and international school holidays, both of which are plausibly exogenous to sales. We are able to obtain relatively precise estimates because the data contain over ten thousand album-weeks…Even in the most pessimistic specification, five thousand downloads are needed to displace a single album sale…high selling albums actually benefit from file sharing.
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BBC NEWS | Europe | Nato embraces seven new members