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Burnstation is a free music distribution system.
It lets you navigate through free media contents (only music for the moment),
listen to them and select your favorites to burn a CD for takeaway!
Soon it will have support for videos, texts and even software.
This project is an idea by platoniq.net and the software development started in april 2004 by rama and platoniq, and still goes on..

I met them at Transmediale 06 in Berlin, first weekend of February 2006.

Download MP3, 11.8 mb, duration 9:27.

The Best Blogging Newspapers in the U.S.* | Blue Plate Special:

“The Best Blogging Newspapers in the U.S.*
Facts About the State of Blogging at America’s 100 Biggest Newspapers”

(Via journalism.nyu.edu .)

emoodz.com » Muslim Madonna:
“Muslim pop singer Deeyah has irked the Muslim world with her provocative new music video that shows her stripping off a burka to reveal her bikini-clad body.”

Mohammed AlMaskati from Bahrain wonders about this: “…now the west needs to free Muslim women from the Burka’a so that they can go into bigger and “better” things.. like breast implants, eating disorders, chronic happy pill popping, marijuana and eventually fortunes being spent on psychiatry.”

Read his blog: http://emoodz.com/?p=172

(Via http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/03/01/muslim-madonna/.)

Disinformation:

“Jon Snow’s Channel 4 Podcast: From Mellow To Mental
Date: Wednesday, March 01 @ 11:56:00
Topic Podcasts

Channel 4 has dipped into the world of podcasting with the launch of a 30-minute report examining the link between cannabis and mental health.

‘From Mellow To Mental is presented by Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow and features interviews with drug users and medical experts on both sides of the debate.

”I’d forgotten how much more intimate people were prepared to be about their personal experiences when they don’t have a camera pointing at them. It was refreshing for me, and an exciting pointer to what we could achieve in radio and podcasting,’ he said.

”This is the first piece of radio I’ve been commissioned to make since 1976.” (Journalism article & Channel 4 podcast).

This article comes from Disinformation
http://www.disinfo.com/site/

The URL for this story is:
http://www.disinfo.com/site/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=15341
”

(Via disinfo.com.)

Hurrah! The religious fundamentalists of America have lost this case - at least for the time being.

Disinformation:

“Anti-Darwin Bill Fails In Utah
Date: Wednesday, March 01 @ 10:06:04
Topic Politics

‘In a defeat for critics of Darwin, the Utah House of Representatives on Monday voted down a bill intended to challenge the theory of evolution in high school science classes.

‘The bill had been viewed nationally, by people on each side of the science education debate, as an important proposal because Utah is such a conservative state, with a Legislature dominated by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

‘But the bill died on a 46-to-28 vote in the Republican-controlled House after being amended by the majority whip, Stephen H. Urquhart, a Mormon who said he thought God did not have an argument with science. The amendment stripped out most of the bill’s language, leaving only that the state board of education ’shall establish curriculum requirements relating to scientific instruction.” (New York Times article).

This article comes from Disinformation
http://www.disinfo.com/“

(Via disinfo.com.)

Jon Lund at New Mediatrends looks into the ongoing case about deeplinking in Danish media. There is a very interesting court ruling. Read:

Danish court approves of “deep-linking”:

“Search-engines are desirable for the functioning of the internet of today. So says the Danish Maritime and Commercial Court (Copenhagen) - ‘Sø og Handelsretten’ - in a ruling friday. And goes on stating that one, when publishing information on the internet, must assume searchengines will create links directly to individual pages of ones website.

Breaks new grounds
Thereby the court breaks new grounds in the standing conflict between content-owners, wanting to retain the rights to content, and internet-entrepreneurs wanting to take advantage of the internets potentials for sharing information.

Real-estate-specific - with a generic touch
The ruling itself deals with the case of the marketleading Danish realestate broker ‘Home’ vs. the ‘OFiR’ portal, who crawls, indexes and links to the Home website. (As such it does not pretend to rule on the whole deeplinking issue. It rules specifically on the realestate-broker vs. portals domain - allthough the wording of central paragraphs are very generic: ‘search-engines of various sorts … must be deemed desirable’ (p. 128), ‘actors must assume searchengines to establish links…’ (p. 129).)

Read for yourself
Go read the verdict for yourself here (it’s in Danish, the interesting part goes from page 125 and onwards): http://www.domstol.dk/media/-300011/files/v010899.pdf”

(Via New Media Trends.)