From September’s Wired: Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe.
A fairly chilling account of internet vulnerability that reads more like one of William Gibson‘s or Bruce Sterling‘s fictions.
The ramifications of an attack such as this are reasonably severe — and yet this is the first I’d seen or read any news on the subject, even considering the number of tech.-related publications I regularly peruse.
Goggles, GoogleMaps flash Flight Sim (beta)– tres kewl.
via some velvet blog.
Remember when 4MB of RAM and an 80MB harddrive was bleedin’ edge? Here’s a WordPress theme with some history: Retro MacOS Theme.
via Josef.
Soundsnap: “share free sound effects and loops.” From animals to audio art, available in .mp3 and .wav. Mix, match, & montage:
bass chord
horse
bowling ball
The entire Internet has crashed. All data lost:
Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash
Internet radio is in immediate danger. Devastatingly large increases in royalty rates take effect July 15: retroactive to Jan 1 2006. Many radio and music sites can’t afford the increases, so will be forced to shut down their music streams.
Today is a national “Day of Silence” to protest these rates, and to encourage the millions of net radio listeners to take action and contact their Congressional representatives.
Webcasters across USA have special programming planned; some will broadcast complete silence.
The bipartisan Internet Radio Equality Act can save internet radio. Info at Savenetradio.org and Radio and Internet Newsletter.
The Hype Machine tracks music blogs and mp3 posts. You can add a Top 10 to your own site of what folk are music-blogging right now, looks like:
If you’re a Harper’s Magazine subscriber, you can now get pdf versions of paper articles online; e.g., here’s Carrier, Scott – Articles (Harper’s Magazine).
The flash-y Letter Project by Ze Frank.
Check this line-vector simulation of a hanging cloth, writ by JRC313.com. Pull it with the mouse (click-drag), let go, and watch it swing — cheap e-thrills via a “physics library” of code; here’s some screenshots:
Community Broadcasters Conference Revised Agenda:
Thursday, 12 April 2007
0715 – 0800
Badge Pickup
Continental Breakfast
Begin complaining about RIAA and SoundExchange screwing us on webcasting
0800 – 0815
Conference Welcome – “RIAA not really ‘evil’, just ‘bastardly'”
0815 – 1000
Case Studies in New Facilities and how building would have been easier with
webcasting and everyone at RIAA dead from painful diseases
1000 – 1015
Morning Break
More complaining about RIAA
1015 – 1115
Mapping the Boundaries of HD Radio Coverage and how it’s been limited by the
Great Satan of Webcasting: RIAA
1115 – 1215
HD Radio Technology Update and how RIAA plans to kill us with it
1215 – 1315
Lunch
Keynote- “RIAA is Destroying the Internet”
And this update.
(From the PUBTech listserv.)
Check this nice flash-background to a video player: TERRA: The Nature of Our World. I love the outdoor drive-in amongst wildlife setting. The site is a MT State Univ student site, and it’s up for a SXSW award (MSU press release).
The site for Thembi’s AIDS Diary, A Year in the Life of a South African Teenager (Radio Diaries– The AIDS Diary Project) now has a blog, lotsa Flash, mp3s, and is preparing an AIDS Action Toolkit for .edu and avocacy.
What be Web 2.0? In 5 minutes or less- The Machine is Us/ing Us:
Produced by produced by Mike Wesch, Digital Ethnography, Kansas State University.