links for 2008-04-19

• A world of witnesses | Economist.com
  "Instead of surveillance, watching from above, society will rely on a new and opposite concept, sousveillance, watching from below."
  (tags: mobile social technology trends sensors)
• The Mire: Namings As Portals
  "... construing these allusions as 'portals' that led somewhere - rather than as citations in a seamless postmodern circuit - is highly suggestive."
  (tags: naming portals joydivision thewire)
• Drowned in Sound - Features - The Weekly DiScussion: print press problems and industry repercussions
  "... music fans in their mid-teens, in the UK, aren't reading about music at all. They're skipping straight to the source, via MySpace and other social networking set-ups geared to promote and host music in audio and visual forms."
  (tags: music reading internet myspace)
• A model for the 21st century newsroom: pt1 - the news diamond << Online Journalism Blog
  "... this news diamond attempts to illustrate the change from a 19th century product (the article) to a 21st century process: the iterative journalism of new media; the story that is forever 'unfinished'."
  (tags: newsdiamond news blogging online journalism web media)
• Joan As Police Woman - the gig
  "I love watching musicians. The intense inward concentration, the expressions sometimes bordering on agony; it reminds me of people enjoying really good sex."
  (tags: music sex japw live performance joanaspolicewoman)
• mad musings of me - Gertsamtkunstwerk - Content Theft
  Interesting debate between Gert and the publishers of a blog-scraping site. Gert puts her case forcefully and well. Useful input from Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today.
  (tags: scrapers blogging plagiarism copyright plagiarismtoday gert madmusingsofme)
• Urgency is poisonous - (37signals)
  "... I've come to believe urgency is poisonous. Urgency may get things done a few days sooner, but what does it cost in morale? Few things burn morale like urgency. Urgency is acidic."
  (tags: urgency lifestyle work productivity)
• Do I really have to blog? | New Music Strategies
  "Your music has always been communication. Your music business has always been a communication business."
  (tags: music business newmusicstrategies andrewdubber blogging)

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