We had a power outage in our area today, taking out our office… (following on from yesterday’s outage in Marylebone that took out Level3 in […]

finally got around to watching the insane, dangerously irresponsible video that is “they call it polution we call it life” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sGKvDNdJNA the mind boggles (and […]

Random conversations are great. I’ve been looking at mappings between cosmology and ‘other things’ for several years now. Recent conversations keep orbiting links between psychology, […]

Interesting event today at http://www.interdependenceday.co.uk/ the Royal Geographic Society. The only thing missing from the site (and the RGS site!) is the address … so […]

http://www.losowsky.com/archives/009837.html getting closer to Human Tamagochi, but still not quite there….

Via Mark and his remarkable team at Internews Following an assessment mission from Jakarta, Internews is making a public appeal for donations of radio sets […]

“a gathering of video makers, programmers and web producers developing online video distribution as a tool for social justice and media democracy.” it said. it […]

The exequo.org powered SoundJunction just won the “Music” award in the NMA awards I seem to have a knack for turning up/helping some of the […]

In the guardian again, this time with my exequo hat on. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1766532,00.html Again, it’s not a “bad thing” but an evolution of a licensing framework […]

Another step function today on the web… http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax “This experimental catalogue database holds over 900,000 entries” … from the 1920s onwards. This is one of […]

BBC Creative Future… (link) “The second wave of digital will be far more disruptive than the first and the foundations of traditional media will be […]

This should turn into quite a nice resource over the next few months… http://del.icio.us/globalcool

I often wonder quite how far the language of the Web (2.0 or not) must seem totally alien to everyone … this is a recent […]

It’s about 10 years since people started getting serious about online video distribution. RealVideo launched in ’97 and there was certainly a lot of dot.i.ness […]

Expect a lot of interesting things to start on this very soon. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1176980,00.html And, coming soon, http://www.global-cool.com/

Tags are going n-dimensional… Ben (the new-look Ben) & Co have implemented a nice 3D tag system using 2 spatial dimensions and the 3rd with […]

Yet another “first” … this time it’s AOL and Warner Bros. Launch In2TV – the First Broadband Television Network “In2TV begins to realize the true […]

way to go Lee http://flickr.com/photos/deity/92577318/

It’s a sad day today … (bbc obituary) I’m glad I had the privilege of seeing him perform. Certainly one of the most influlential artists […]

A lovely review of “Binary Dust” by Steve Mayall at www.musically.com “It often seems as if digital music manufacturers compete to cram the most technology […]

The HM Revenue & Customs site gets my award for the most confusing site(s) I’ve seen in a long time. compare this with this. Both […]

At CI, we turn it up to 11 ……………………………………………………..

This is great news (the start of convergence at last): http://www.bbc.co.uk/multicast/ “The BBC & ITV intend to test the technical possibilities of streaming more of […]

Went to Cory’s talk on yet more digital rights management attempts. Can’t help thinking that either (1) this will be far too complicated to create […]

Got a mention in the Guardian today with my CI hat on… http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1699518,00.html I said a lot more in my interview of course, like it’s […]

Talk went ok. Dominique Proust was interesting – mapping the history of Music of the Spheres from Pythagoras to Kepler to Herschel, so I followed […]

If you are near Poitier or Bourges next week you are very welcome to come along to a small festival of music and science.. I’ll […]

We just relaunched CI (www.ci-info.com and www.ci-support.com) with our new design, and started video delivery to iTunes for a dash of excitement. A nice start […]

… is doing the rounds again… so I thought a few facts would help.

Your information aura Your mobile phone changes the definition of who and what you are, and since everyone has them, changes the reality of humans […]

‘Space:Planetary Consciousness and the Arts‘ – 10th Workshop and Symposium Château d’Yverdon, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland (PDF 2MB)

Presented “Music and Astronomy” at the Dana Centre – Science Museum, London, UK As part of the Cybersonica “Symposium on Music and Science”, 2:30-3:45pm (also […]

“La France”, private concert on the river Thames, London (UK) Played: Tempest, Joan of Arc, Absorptance, Glass, ds2 series1

tired: pirates of the carribean fired: pirate software/music/la la la hired: pirate drugs ref: pfizer “running out of money to fund new R&D” cost of […]

Resonance FM (London (UK) radio) Played Absorptance, and ds2 series1 Here’s an example sound and image for the show

DEAF04: Affective Turbulence – Rotterdam (Netherlands) Biennial international festival for electronic art Played ds2 series1 Download Visual Presentation (PDF 2.4MB)

SPRAWL: Underground playground – London (UK) Played: Tempest, Absorptance, ds2 series1

Webcasting, Streaming, Digital Downloading and Broadcasting All these terms refer to the same thing: the ability to distribute media. Until recently, we’d been using TV, […]

IMA Awards – Virgin Radio win (again) This time I got to hand out the award, rather than helping them win.

Diveristy Stimuates Cultural Growth // Globalisation limits diversity. (note to self) There is no conceptual difference between cultural, social and biological diversity. Each is critical […]

Broadcast Engineering Article http://broadcastengineering.com/ar/broadcasting_internet_broadcasting/

Streaming Handbook launches Amazon link Technology of Video and Audio Streaming (Paperback), by David Austerberry (fwd: Gavin Starks)

Radio Academy – Online Radio Conference I was one of the speakers… quite interesting watching this industry evolve. Will be interesting to see when TV […]

Invited speaker on an NAB panel – with Real, MS and Apple My second NAB experience – only 111,000 delegates this time. And I still […]

Communications Week interview on Multicasting and such-like, only partly available online article

Invited speaker at the Distributing Digital Music conference, London. Quite why anyone thinks they’ve got a grasp on this I don’t know. If only they […]

Scientific American quotes me about, of all things, day-trading …. go figure.

Various StreamingMedia.com articles and presentations at conferences: 2001-10-24 2000-03-16 1999-10-19

“Adding Sound to your Website”, The Mix magazine, Future Publishing Unfortunately I don’t have the copy for this any more…

A major NAB presentation on “Internet Broadcasting” with CNN and ABC on the same session. I thoroughly confused the audience by trying to describe the […]

Lecture to the British Computing Society – “Broadcasting on the Internet”

Vision & Audio conference – “Internet for Broadcasters”

Webcaster of and contributor to NVA‘s amazing Virtual World Orchestra This was the first significant live event webcast for me (setting aside Virgin Radio, the […]