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By Ryan Van Etten on 03/04/2010
This year’s Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference aims to focus on imagination. Themed Imagination Around the World, this free virtual event takes place in Second Life on March 12–13. Second Life is growing as a venue for education at multiple grade levels.
Posted in Education, Events, Gaming, News, Second Life, SL Events | Tagged augmented reality, best practices, collaboration, communication, conference, creativity, event, HARP, imagination, learning, specialization, teaching, video, virtual worlds, VWBPE
By Ryan Van Etten on 02/21/2010
These people are awesome: South African rap-ravers Die Antwoord (translation: The Answer) have dazzled the interwebs in a matter of weeks with their latest music video Enter The Ninja. A literal butterfly effect is happening here—Die Antwoord is rippling the music world with Zef flow.
Posted in Band Radar, Editorial, Music, News | Tagged arts, awesomeness, butterfly effect, counterculture, culture, Die Antwoord, diversity, enter the ninja, hip hop, next level, rap, review, south africa, video, zef
By Ryan Van Etten on 02/18/2010
Bandcamp added artist/song tagging to its slew of features yesterday, and hopes are high that more social music features are in store. As a self-professed tag-a-holic I’m pretty stoked about the news, and especially so because I had emailed them suggesting a tagging feature. Bandcamp artists can now list themselves in up to five genres, they can add their location, and they can add specific traits to individual tracks in the form of tags.
Posted in Design, Discussion, Editorial, Music Flux, News | Tagged Amie Street, bandcamp, behavior, community, crowdsourcing, data, Delicious, geotagging, ideas, last.fm, location, music discovery, music intelligence, new features, recommendation engine, search, social bookmarking, social media, social music, tagging, thesixtyone
By Ryan Van Etten on 02/11/2010
Dubbed musicblogocide2k10 Google deleted at least six known music blogs from its Blogger platform. Google posted an official response highlighting their current procedures for handling DMCA complaints that were last updated last summer—Google implies that they warn offending bloggers but cite difficulty contacting offenders in the past. They also include the link for filing a DMCA counter claim.
Posted in Activism, Discussion, Editorial, Journalism, Music, News | Tagged backup, bandcamp, blog shutdowns, blogger, bloggers, blogging, blogspot, change, copyright law, Creative Commons, digital, DMCA, domains, dreamhost, DRM, EFF, embedding, export, Google, Grooveshark, hosting, how to, import, internet, jamendo, legal, musicblogocide, musicblogocide2k10, platform, posterous, promo code, resources, rights, soundcloud, squarespace, tips, transfer, transferring, tumblr, widgets, wordpress, writers, YouTube
By Ryan Van Etten on 02/10/2010
Paramore + Hulu = Awesomeness. A hi-fi artist channel that rocks. Paramore outperforms both on and off the stage. Why do I like Paramore? They are kick-ass live performers. But I’ve never seen them in person. Hulu delivered them to me last year and now again with the brand new Paramore channel at hulu.com/paramore
Posted in Band Radar, Editorial, Music, Music Flux, News | Tagged access, Andrew Kendall, artist channels, artist-fan relationship, awesomeness, band, bands, brand new eyes, content, deals, EMI, energy, engagement, fans, generation, hulu, hulu channel, Internet Generation, live music, MusicBiz, musicians, paramore, partnerships, performers, performing, pop-punk, punk, review, rock/pop, social media, social music, storytelling, streaming, television, The Final Riot!, timeline, ustream, Vevo, video, WMG, youth, YouTube
By Ryan Van Etten on 02/08/2010
Multitouch may be next GUI—is there a doubt? For decades we’ve used the mouse, but as GUI technology improves we’ll find more limitations in a mouse-based system. Clayton Miller’s 2009 project called 10/GUI demonstrates the potential of multitouch. According to Miller, “the industry is now at a crossroads.”
Posted in Boundless, Design, Discussion, Editorial, News | Tagged 10/GUI, augmented reality, brain, Clayton Miller, computing, con10uum, Design, gesture recognition, gestures, graphical, GUI, human, human-computer, interaction, interface, iPhone, mobile, mobility, multitouch, nintendo, Pranav Mistry, science, sixthsense, technology, TED, touchscreens, UI, virtuality, virtualization, wii
By Ryan Van Etten on 02/02/2010
Piano music is as popular in Second Life as it is in real life. The setting is a virtual world—the music is real, interactive, and on key. This vivid photoset features pianos and players (avatars) in Second Life. 11 photos and 1 video.
Posted in Gaming, Music, News, Second Life, VirtualArt | Tagged avatars, culture, Gaming, nightlife, photos, piano, pianos, Second Life, videogame, virtual piano, virtual worlds, virtuality
By Ryan Van Etten on 02/01/2010
Terry McBride—CEO of Nettwerk—talks here about imagination. He argues that with music, context trumps content because music creates emotional bookmarks in our mind. Simply, the song is an emotion. These emotional bookmarks are significant because they enable us to travel backwards in our memories to when we experienced the music. Consumers are in control of the music industry, and access rules.
Posted in Music, Music Flux, News | Tagged access, app stores, Apple, artist-fan relationship, arts, behavior, business, cloud, consumption, content, context, copyright law, crowdsourcing, digital, digital valets, downloads, emotion, emotional attachment, imagination, industry, iPhone, ipod, live music, music ventures, MusicBiz, Nettwerk, ownership, p2p, positivity, psychology, pull, recession, revenue, smartphones, social music, spotify, streaming, TED, TEDx, TEDxVancouver, Terry McBride, venture capital, video
Ryan Van Etten in 2010
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