The SSRC just released a report on media piracy in emerging economies. I haven’t read it yet, so I can’t comment on the findings, but if you click the link, you’ll find an interesting discussion of the pricing structure as itself a demonstration of the arguments in the book. As an added part of that …
Category Archives: Academe
EMP Review
Last weekend I went to my first ever Experience Music Project conference. EMP has been hosting conferences for 10 years and this one was their first outside Seattle. There are plenty of twitter feeds for those interested in a blow-by-blow (including me coming out with a good 1-liner in the Q&A and then realizing that …
From Dots to Bits
A little mp3 book tidbit. Thanks to Tricia Soto, CASBS librarian, I finally got my hands on a dusty 1911 text I’ve been after (I originally found this pic on Wikipedia, but it’s now gone and the text that goes with it turns out to be priceless).
Profs and Students: Read Your Contracts!
I know I keep harping on this, but someone has to. I was just asked to sign a contract for something I’m doing which defined my work as “work for hire.” This is becoming more and more common not only in publication boilerplates, but in others kinds of things professors do in the normal course …
Version Control
Here’s a question for any book writers hanging out on this blog (feel free to email if you don’t want to post). I’ve got a versioning issue. The mp3 book is made up of several long chapters. In two cases, which I’m presently about to deal with, I’ve provided condensed, edited, shortened versions for others’ …
Digital Humanities Position at McGill
I’ve forwarded this announcement to a few listservs. I’m not on the search committee (I’m on sabbatical!) and the hire won’t necessarily even be in my department, but I have a “rooting interest” in the position, so I post it here just in case the blog has readers that haven’t seen the announcement. For people …