Posts Tagged ‘information’

Amazon Takes On Wikipedia With Editable Music Wiki

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Wikipedia is an undeniably helpful resource for researching bands, with fairly accurate data that tends to be updated in near real time. Amazon hopes the same sort of thing will happen on its new SoundUnwound site, which borrows a page from Wikipedia’s playbook by allowing users to edit information about any band, label, album or song.

Amazon's real problem is the catalog entries. The list is endless. The entries are flaky as to when they show up in search results (depending entirely on the particular order of your search terms). Thus there are often duplicate…

The Naked Nirvana Baby, 17 Years Later

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Imagine if millions of people had seen you naked before you were old enough to say “embarrassing.” That’s the story of Spencer Elden, who you may know as the little baby floating towards a dollar bill on the cover of Nirvana’s 1991 album, Nevermind.

“[He] calls us up and was like, 'Hey Rick, wanna make 200 bucks and throw your kid in the drink?,'” Rick recounts. “I was like, 'What's up?' And he's like, 'Well, I'm shooting kids all this week, why…

Free New Nine Inch Nails Song, “Discipline”

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Trent Reznor is an amazing man, just put your email address in to get the download link and check your email to download Discipline, the new single

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The Music Industry Vs Net Neutrality

Friday, February 1st, 2008

U2, the world famous rock band, wants to turn all ISPs in to copyright police and have them stop all that darned piracy!

So, even if an ISP would opt to start doing inspections, and sorting out which packets were illegal, they would then run up against net neutrality violations. Net neutrality is a concept that ISPs must treat all packets of information equally no…