‘Digital natives’? I don’t buy it
I can’t usually watch more than two minutes of a televised debate without fast forwarding or switching off altogether, but I was completely hooked by all 100 minutes of the…
In praise of record cards
I was on the point of throwing away two boxes of record cards (or index cards) that, if I’m honest, I have rarely used. One of them I have had…
Zotero guide from The Old Bailey
This is the advantage of following Zotero’s twitter feed – you find out about brilliant resources such as the guide to using Zotero from The Old Bailey (yes, that Old…
RIP the Loudness War – apparently
Interesting article from Mix, proclaiming the end of the loudness war, Mastering engineers often aim to make songs sound louder because louder equals ‘better’ when you’re fighting for listeners. Radio…
In praise of the book…and the pencil
I think I could become a fan of Google’s new Think Quarterly. My favourite bit so far is from Guy Laurence, CEO of Vodafone UK, telling a cautionary joke about…
Make money from music? Go on tour.
Interesting article from ArsTechnica Did file-sharing cause recording industry collapse? Economists say no. Researchers from LSE have looked at some of the claims about the negative effects of file sharing…