Tuesday, June 18, 2002

David Bowie's Heathen. I may be wrong, but so far it seems like the best we've heard from this guy since Scarey Monsters! [requires further close listening...less than convinced at this point]

Satellite TV Loses in High Court. Wired News Jun 17 2002 12:43PM ET [Moreover - moreover...]

Global Digital Photo Network Sought. Photo industry rivals are teaming up on an initiative to establish what they hope will become the ATM-equivalent of a global digital photo printing network. [New York Times: Technology] Been waiting years for this. Fujifilm has had a system in place for a while, but there are virtually no local processors (in NYC no less!) that take part in the offering. Their PictroProof printers are fantastic, and run on distilled water (woo...). I believe their Frontier minilab systems are based on the same technology.

Audiogalaxy agrees to filter songs. The Recording Industry Association of America says it has reached an out-of-court settlement with the free file-swapping service to filter copyrighted works. [CNET News.com]

World Cup fans miffed at TiVo, Sonicblue. CNET Jun 17 2002 6:53PM ET [Moreover - moreover...] OK, they're still working out some of these things. The tough thing is that your Tivo must dial into their network every night to update itself. How will it know to dial in at the last moment? I says its called "onboard NIC". The new boxes have 100Bt ports, as do ReplayTVs. For those of us with always-on internet, this is no problem. Otherwise it'll just be more frequent dial-ins.

Juilliard Student Is Winner of Piano 'E-Competition'. First prize at the International Piano-e-Competition, which gained attention as the first such event to use a remote judge, was given to Mei-Ting Sun. [New York Times: Technology] Also, get the recordings of Gershwin (and others) playing his own works on player piano, which were then transfered to Yamaha Disklavier. Truly an amazing experience!

Published in a New York Minute. Online techniques and technologies give publishing a new urgency. Also: Innovative new authors ... shrinking iUniverse ... and more in M.J. Rose's notebook. [Wired News]