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Jessica Dolcourt posted a great article on the One Laptop Per Child initiative in Nigeria on CNET news. We are finally seeing the beginning of the first deployments of the laptop. I think we're going to be impressed with what... read more
Jessica Dolcourt posted a great article on the One Laptop Per Child initiative in Nigeria on CNET news. We are finally seeing the beginning of the first deployments of the laptop. I think we're going to be impressed with what... read more
PayPerNote 1.0 - an advanced note management program
March 23 2009
CONTACT Earl Vickers The Sound Guy, Inc. http://www.sfxmachine.com PayPerNote 1.0 Saratoga, CA - April 1, 2009 The Sound Guy, Inc. has announced the release of PayPerNote 1.0, an advanced note management program. PayPerNote analyzes audio or MIDI inputs and allows performers to view exactly how much they're getting paid on… read moreJohn Adams Interviewed on KQED
December 23 2008
Michael Krasny gabs with John Adams on KQED's Forum about his music, book and life. A must listen. And don't forget to enjoy his opera "Doctor Atomic" about Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb. Playing now on your local PBS station.... read moreXO Laptop delivered in Columbia
December 23 2008
I haven't mentioned the OLPC XO laptop for kids in a while. But, it's worth noting that Nicholas Negroponte has delivered XO laptops to Columbian children in an area that was once controlled by guerrillas. In this TED Video he discusses the project, on the road, and why laptops are… read moreSF Electronic Music Festival this week
September 02 2008
Tom Duff from the SF Electronic Music Festival committee reminds us of this week's agenda. - The festival is from Wed-Sat 8pm and Sunday 7pm. - Box Office and Installation open one hour before concert time. The 2008 San Francisco Electronic Music Festival Project Artaud Theater 450 Florida Street, San… read moreRevolutionary new Audio Product
March 23 2008
I don’t usually recommend audio products in this post. But I think you’ll agree, this is an important milestone. The press release says it works for Windows and Mac, but it'd probably work on Linux as well. INFINITUDE!™ 1.0 Dynamic Exaggeration Plug-in! Saratoga, CA - April 1, 2008 The Sound… read moreNovember 15 2007
I just downloaded the new Miro player (formally Democracy Player). It's very nice, seems to organize videos reasonably well, is free, multi-platform, open source and includes features I believe all video players should provide. But, when I got to checking... read moreJune 01 2007
Recent postings in a sound design group have posted some examples of great sound design in television commercials. Here are some of my favorites: ... read moreMay 23 2007
If you're a frequent user of the free Pandora music service, as I am, you've noticed their powerful web interface has been updated. Along with the update are two new announcements providing users access to Pandora's large music database, and... read moreMay 21 2007
If you missed it, see 60 Minutes interview with Negroponte about the teams dreams and the origin of the laptop idea. Also in the news: Negroponte says Intel should be ashamed of itself... read moreFree Open-Source Multitrack Recorder - Ardour 2
May 04 2007
If you haven't heard, Paul Davis and friends have just released the second version of Ardour - a free open-source multitrack recorder for Linux and now for OSX. The intro on the site gives a good summary: "Ardour capabilities include:... read morehttp://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/03/post_7.html
March 23 2007
The Linux Audio Conference is in full swing until March 25th in Berlin. If you can't make it, you can view the streams during the program. As in previous years, the streams will be archived and made available after the... read moreMarch 06 2007
I have created a variety of views for the Audio sessions for this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco (much faster than waiting for GDC's site). Even if you are not a composer or sound designer, there are plenty... read moreMicrosoft must pay in MP3 Lawsuit
February 28 2007
I'm sure you've heard the news that Microsoft must pay $1.5B as the result of a lawsuit brought by Alcatel-Lucent. You can read about it, but it sure is a good lesson. You better do your homework before licensing patents.... read moreSophie: an Open-source Multimedia Tool
February 19 2007
Sophie, a project to create multimedia books, is now available in Alpha release. Based on Squeak, Sophie is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Sophie is not a tool to render traditional paper... read moreJanuary 06 2007
Bert Freudenberg found a great video on the One Laptop Per Child initiative. A very informative video created by eSchool news showing the strengths of the laptop and footage of the founder and director Nicholas Negroponte. Bert has more about... read moreDecember 08 2006
Building on Frederic Vavrille's Liveplasm site (a visual search engine he created 3 years ago), Mr. Vavrille has created a visually-entertaining web radio where listeners select music from a mood-energy matrix or from a genre selection box. Manuel Lima... read more"a really wacky idea" comes to life
November 30 2006
Good article in today's NY Times about the One Laptop Per Child initiative. "Mary Lou Jepsen, the chief technologist for the project, likes to refer to the insight that transformed the machine from utopian dream to working prototype as "a... read moreNovember 01 2006
There is no shortage of opinions about the fate of television - be it professionally created or user generated content (UGC.) Views range from the misguided "UGC has changed TV forever! Power to the People!" — to the pensive... read moreNovember 01 2006
There is no shortage of opinions about the fate of television - be it professionally created or user generated content (UGC.) Views range from the misguided "UGC has changed TV forever! Power to the People!" — to the pensive... read moreAugust 25 2006
If you've been following my blog, you've been aware of the One Laptop Per Child milestones. Last week, The One Laptop Per Child initiative put a name on their first laptop device. The new name is "Children's Machine" or... read moreBob Moog Foundation for Electronic Music
August 21 2006
I received an email letter today from Bob Moog's daughter, Michelle Moog-Koussa. The Moog family has established the Bob Moog Memorial Foundation for Electronic Music. The letter states that they have "...carefully chosen objectives, each tied to his life and... read moreOpen-Source Windows Media for All Platforms
August 15 2006
According to CNET, RealNetworks will release open-source software at the end of this year to allow non-Windows software to play Windows Media files (WMV and WMA.) All made possible by ... read moreMagnatune - a step toward fair play?
August 10 2006
John Buckman says he created Magnatune out of personal frustration with record labels and to give artists a fair deal. Does their tagline "We Are Not Evil" ring true for artists? ... read moreMagnatune - a step toward fair play?
August 10 2006
John Buckman says he created Magnatune out of personal frustration with record labels and to give artists a fair deal. Does their tagline "We Are Not Evil" ring true for artists? ... read moreOpen Source in 1981 - The IBM PC
August 06 2006
Ever wonder what the world of computing would be like if the IBM PC was originally created in an atmosphere of open-source?... read moreOne Laptop Per Child - prototype video
July 13 2006
Following along with our fun adventure of the One Laptop Per Child initiative is a video of the first working model, courtesy of RedHat. Take a look! More videos for those who want to investigate the OLPC initiative. I'm currently... read moreJuly 11 2006
The technical quality of most vlogs and podcasts today are... in a word... yucky. It's tiring reading about the advances in multimedia on the web only to find, time and time again, pathetic production values in podcasts and vlogs (Scoble... read moreJuly 02 2006
Following on the heals of my blog "We Don't Need No Stinkin' OS", is a project to do just that: eliminate the OS. SqueakNOS is an aggressive project, to say the least. What makes someone think they can bypass years... read moreFirst Working Model of OLPC $100 laptop
June 09 2006
Last week I reported pictures surfacing of the $100 laptop from the One Laptop Per Child project. eWeek.com recently reported the first working model made by PC Manufacturer Quanta. Good articles if you are keeping up with the progress of this admirable project. Pictures too! Note that Python and a version… read moreOne Laptop Per Child - first photos
May 26 2006
The One Laptop Per Child program has posted pictures of the first working laptop model. Interesting! I trust the OLPC team will seriously consider squeak to be included on the laptop for the ride around the world. (For more information on squeak and learning see the Squeakland site. Also of interest… read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
