A while back I started reading the liberal/feminist (plus some comments on music) blog pandagon_net/Pandagon, co-authored by a guy in Columbus and a woman in Austin. Today they (the LJ feed omits the author byline, but I have reason to believe it was her and not him) linked to a power-pop blog, which I found interesting.... but the best thing I found there was ( Read more... )

I know, most of what I post here seems to be about cool music I've discovered, or am about to go see, or that others should go see. And these days most of it came to me via podcasts. So here's some more....

A band called Mutiny was recently played on The $250 Million Radio Show podcast. They call their music "folk punk for punk folk," while I'd ( Read more... )

Do you need to build a hyperspace bypass? Or are you just feeling remarkably antisocial? Well, you might find this feasability study to be useful.

I've now been listening to some podcasts for about a month, and I've found some great stuff, some of which I've already mentioned.

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Lately I've been hearing about the phenomenon of "podcasting", which is sort of audio blogging with RSS feeds used for downloading the audio to portable MP3 players, particularly iPods. (The latest way it caught my attention was a discussion on NPR's "On The Media".) One interesting side aspect of the whole thing is one of the main promoters and ( Read more... )

The Internet is big, really big. That's obvious. But what isn't necessarily so obvious is that it actually looks different to different people. (I'm not talking about browser differences, that's a separate issue.) Everyone has a different set of sites that they frequent, and for each person the Internet looks like that collection of sites.

So ( Read more... )

Wired has a great article about BitTorrent. Besides interviewing the author and briefly explaining how BitTorrent works, I like that the article spends a lot of time on the issue of using BitTorrent for TV show timeshifting -- "the Internet becomes a giant TiVo." That's the most interesting aspect of BitTorrent for me, but it's one that normally ( Read more... )