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Re: Imogen Heap announces tech-focused new world tour

Andrew Dubber — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 13:07:13 -0000

We're thrilled to have Imogen launch her Mycelia world tour at MTF Stockholm. For more information, see https://musictechfest.net

Re: Strangers On A Plane

Andrew Dubber — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 20:50:22 -0000

Love it. This is more or less exactly how I ended up where I am right now. In fact, this is more or less how I do more or less everything I do. Once you realise most people are amazing, serendipity kicks into overdrive...

Have I mentioned I really like your writing? However, there's something you're not good at: I don't believe you're actually capable of bitchface. You're always going to end up in these sorts of conversations.

And yes - you HAVE to go to South America (hello from South America).

Re: RECIPE: Bushwick Chopped Salad

Andrew Dubber — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:55:28 -0000

Love it. Only problem is the distance I currently live from a Trader Joe's. I wonder if the guy in the cop car was the 'Thug Kitchen' dude. Seems plausible...

http://thugkitchen.com

Re: ReadingThe 360 Dealby Andrew Dubber

Andrew Dubber — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:22:12 -0000

Okay - yeah. I get what you're saying now. A much bigger ask, in some ways - but a methodology I might keep for another project. In the meantime, I need to go and write some of my own stuff, rather than rely on other people quite so much... but that's going to echo around in my head for a bit. Thanks for the food for thought.

Re: ReadingThe 360 Dealby Andrew Dubber

Andrew Dubber — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:37:28 -0000

Interesting... why exactly? I mean - why is that something I would do rather than anyone else - say, you, for instance? :)

Re: ReadingThe 360 Dealby Andrew Dubber

Andrew Dubber — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:29:27 -0000

The book will launch today (he said, crossing his fingers)... We are just waiting for a couple of minor details to be worked out so that we can legitimately process the payments for charity without falling foul of any transnational taxation regulations or money transfer problems. As soon as that's sorted (very, very soon!) - the book is all yours.

Re: ReadingThe 360 Dealby Andrew Dubber

Andrew Dubber — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 06:16:06 -0000

Hi Maiken - thanks so much. If there's an English version of what you wrote, I'd love to read it.

Re: My email to the Olympics

Andrew Dubber — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:57:51 -0000

I received the following reply:

Hello Andrew,

Thank you for contacting London 2012 with your questions.

Please use the following link which you might find helpful:

http:// www.london2012.com/about-us...

I hope this provides the information you require. However, if we can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Kind regards,

Matt

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To which I responded:

Hi Matt.

Thanks. That was interesting - but no, it didn't actually address my question, which was about links.

If I link to your site from my personal blog, and I say negative or critical things about the Olympics, what steps are in your legal power to take? I'm not talking about defamation or anything - just negative opinion or reasoned critique.

You state "no such link shall portray us or any other official London 2012 organisations (or our or their activities, products or services) in a false, misleading, derogatory or otherwise objectionable manner."

My question is essentially "Or what?"

Again - I'm not talking about usually actionable speech, but speech that is usually considered to be free. In my original email, I gave the following example:

"For instance, if I say I on my blog that I don’t like sports, and I think the Olympics is rubbish, and that I feel that a connection between McDonalds and the Olympics sends a mixed message about healthy lifestyle… and I link to an official Olympics page using that phrase “the Olympics is rubbish”.

I have no plans to do so - and this is purely hypothetical, but I am genuinely curious as to what measures are in your power to take in that situation?"

Thanks for reading this email properly and I look forward to your response.

Re: Instagram and ageing - Ben Walker

Andrew Dubber — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:14:18 -0000

It's probably worth mentioning that approached in this way, old's not such a bad way to be.

Re: For Sale: Your Old Tweets

Andrew Dubber — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:49:07 -0000

'Copyright' and 'content' are interesting concepts in relation to this, since for most people, I suspect they don't think of themselves as 'making content' when they use Twitter, but simply 'talking'. Ownership in the copyright of one's tweets is virtually nonsensical when it comes to commercial exploitation, since it would be extraordinarily rare for an individual to be able to make money selling one's own past tweets. It's only in the aggregation of tweets that a commercial value can be realised - and it's set up so that Twitter are the only people who can usefully aggregate tweets in that way.

There seems to be more of a 'moral rights' issue here than a 'property rights' one. I'd be in favour of having the ability to withhold permission. That would certainly make sense - at the very least for users who have not been explicitly informed that this is what their tweets will be used for (everyone signed up to Twitter so far, in other words). And I'd be in favour of Twitter putting a notice in their signup process that says that tweets may be aggregated and sold to marketing firms. That would seem fair.

But not everything we make is a commodity at the point of use, so the idea of 'owning our content' is, I think, a problematic proposition here. It's not content until it's commodified, and only Twitter can commodify it. Likewise, not everything about permission is a copyright issue - and of course, as a legal, discursive practice - copyright law differs from place to place. While Twitter might itself be located within a particular place with its own laws, the people doing the 'creating' in this instance are subject to all sorts of different copyright laws. Simpler (and more accurate) to discuss this as a matter of corporate ethics, rather than as a matter of legality, I reckon...

So, @humblerock - When you say 'unconstitutional', I'm going to read that as 'unethical' if you don't mind. Not all of us have a constitutional basis for what's right and wrong. :)

Re: Lonesome

Andrew Dubber — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:23:03 -0000

Thanks, Glen. That's made my day. Hope to get back over to see you guys sometime soon.

Re: Troels Abrahamsen

Andrew Dubber — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:52:33 -0000

You're absolutely right. Sorry - was tired / distracted. Fixed now. :)

Re: Music in the Digital Age - Leanpub

Andrew Dubber — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:25:26 -0000

Hey Mark - feel free to spread the word amongst your fellow students... and let them know there's a Dutch language version coming VERY SOON!

Re: Music in the Digital Age - Leanpub

Andrew Dubber — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:24:22 -0000

Hey Lukas - good news: there's a German version available now.
http://leanpub.com/dubber-de

Re: Music in the Digital Age - Leanpub

Andrew Dubber — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:23:38 -0000

Hope you enjoyed it or found it helpful - and if so, then I hope this one's at least as good as that. :)

Re: Music in the Digital Age - Leanpub

Andrew Dubber — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:38:53 -0000

Thanks, Mark - that's hugely appreciated.

Re: Why Sound Will Be Bigger Than Video

Andrew Dubber — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:09:20 -0000

An afternoon of brainstorming would bring up a wealth of them, but off the top of my head... Oral history's a big one. Nobody's done that well online yet - particularly in a way that links things together in a way that could provide a resource for future documentarians.

Imagine I recorded my father about living through the second world war as a child in Glasgow, with his father away fighting for the first five years of his life, living in relative poverty before moving to New Zealand at the age of 13 with his family... and so on.

Now imagine I could tag, rather than simply comment, on the timeline.

Then imagine someone wanted to search for Creative Commons content to make a programme about emigration. Or childhood. Or post-war Britain. Or short story writers (that's what he does now).

Suddenly we have an incredible tool for finding an incredible range of material that can paint a picture in sound (or sound with images) of who we are as a civilisation, through any frame we might later choose.

A central repository for the world's radio archives would not be a stupid idea either - especially if it was similarly searchable and research-able.

What about a project to crowdsource every public domain book as an audiobook?

Recordings of phrases and words in every language and dialect in the world, properly annotated, would give the basis for the development of a true Babelfish - either through natural language modelling or drawing on a database of actual recorded phrases - so that I can have a Skype conversation with someone anywhere in the world - and we can speak our own language, and hear our own language, despite the fact that neither of us would understand a word the other actually spoke if face to face.

Like I say - these are just off the top of my head and need proper thinking - but the power of sound, of speech, of environmental sound, of music is a massively under-explored area of online media.

"How can we be a bit like radio?" and "How can we beat YouTube?" seem like the wrong questions to be asking.

Re: On the Art of Staying in Touch

Andrew Dubber — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:27:12 -0000

I did that once. But then I realised that I speak to people either when I want to, or when they decide they want me to - not on a schedule. It's nice to have the list to skim through from time to time though. A name might jump out at you, and you'll think 'I wonder what they're up to...?' But it's not compulsory.

Re: Why Sound Will Be Bigger Than Video

Andrew Dubber — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:50:04 -0000

Sound is really important to me. I sort of wish Alex was right about this so I could go "yay sound!" - but he isn't.

He isn't in part because the assertion itself is meaningless (define 'bigger' - and is that necessarily a good thing?) - and partially because it's an attempt to predict the future (a sure-fire method of being wrong) - but mostly because it misunderstands media, communication and the ways in which human beings construct and interpret meaning.

He might as well have said that live theatre will be bigger than cinema because the trend is toward more accurate 3D experiences.

I can understand why he would make this sort of assertion, of course. As a short-lived PR grab, it's a bit ham-fisted, but it'll score a few column inches in a few tech publications. But as a polemic and a piece of rhetoric, it's entirely flawed. He's started with a conclusion (effectively a bumper sticker slogan rather than an insight) and has gone looking for supporting evidence for that conclusion, rather than starting with the evidence and reflecting upon what that evidence points to in aggregate. And you'd end up with something way more interesting, useful and, above all, profitable if you did that slightly more difficult, but ultimately more meaningful task.

Thing is, sound doesn't need to be 'bigger' than anything in order to be important. However, sound plays an important role across a wide range of applications in which Soundcloud could be integral, but which it chooses to ignore. Both radio storytelling and disability have been mentioned in this thread already, but there are far more overlooked opportunities here.

I'm a fan of Soundcloud and what it does (and I'm especially a fan of its people and their passion for the product) - but this is the kind of "In the future we will all..." nonsense that usually only the likes of Gerd Leonhard trucks out. And that's kind of disappointing.

Re: Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD krijgt een prijskaartje

Andrew Dubber — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:00:01 -0000

Precies, dat was geweldig! Kan helaas op de Ipod/Iphone niet. Daar is hij ook op uitgekomen, zeker een tip voor de fans!

Re: Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD krijgt een prijskaartje

Andrew Dubber — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:58:28 -0000

Die oude game kunnen ze niet evenaren, dat is gewoon gebleken. Ik zit wel echt te wachten op deze game! Letterlijk kapot gespeeld op de PS1 en nu wil ik hem op de PC met xbox controller spelen als dat kan.

Re: Playstation Vita Cross Play Trailer

Andrew Dubber — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:46:57 -0000

De psVita wordt goedkoper en compacter. Graphics zullen inderdaad slechter zijn op de Vita. Eerlijk gezegd heeft de Vita niet echt concurrentie, want de 3DS is geflopt en de Wii U is eigenlijk een console. Sony praat dus poep als ze zeggen dat ze concurreren met de Wii U. Desondanks wordt het een geweldig apparaatje.

Re: Batting at Number 10 - Leanpub

Andrew Dubber — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:58:06 -0000

Congratulations, Dad - and happy birthday! Delighted to be the first to buy your new book.

Re: Storm Festival

Andrew Dubber — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:49:47 -0000

Nuphlo + Sukh Knight + Nero + Anoop Absolute + Breed + Prodigy + Chemical Brothers

Re: Captain Moses Lelesit – He died doing what he loved best

Andrew Dubber — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:13:25 -0000

Really sorry to hear that. What an amazing life to have led though.