EMusic Will Sell Indie Songs Through AT&T
(tags: music mobile ATT Emusic)

DoJ may lend the RIAA a hand in file-sharing case
(tags: RIAA Copyright censorship)

Joshua Davis: Dynamic Abstraction
(tags: art animation programming visualization flash generative.art)

National Archives partners with Amazon/CustomFlix
“The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) today (July 30) announced a partnership with Amazon and its CustomFlix subsidiary to [...]

Galaxie500: Peel Sesson
Brother JT and Vibrolux: Music For The Other Head
The Last: Look Again.
Prefuse 73: Wicker Park Fest, Chicago, 28 July 2007

On the occasion of Michelangelo Antonioni’s death at 94, Karina Longworth at the Spout Blog provides a brief introduction to the work of one of Film’s Great Masters, via YouTube.
GreenCine also has a roundup of Ingmar Bergman tributes, who also passed yesterday at 89. The Pirate Bay has set up a site, BergmanBits, to facilitate [...]

The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture’s 2007 Conference is in Austin, TX, Oct. 17-20, 2007. Featuring a keynote by Richard Linklater.
The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) is a nonprofit association whose membership comprises a diverse mix of organizations and individuals dedicated to a common goal: the support and advocacy of [...]

The Workbook Project interviews Eric Bassett of Absurda, David Lynch’s interactive collaborator, discussing the DVD release of Inland Empire.

iPhone Firmware Hints at New Apps, Widgets
(tags: iPhone software)

For YouTube, a System to Halt Copyright-Infringing Videos - New York Times
YouTube filtering/fingerprinting to begin in the Fall
(tags: youtube Copyright DRM censorship networkPolitics)

This graph says it all. Story at Ars: webcasters favor indie music over major labels.

The highly-anticipated hack/patch to the AppleTV “diagnostic” USB port has been released. AppleTV Hacks has all the info, caveats and instructions. This patch enables the use of external storage—no word yet as to other uses.
AppleTV USB Patch

BBC NEWS | Technology | BBC online video service launches
(tags: tv video distribution BBC)

Hackszine.com: Sharing lists of podcasts for the iPhone, iPod, iTunes… OPML, .pcasts and more…
(tags: Itunes iPod iPhone podcasts howto)

Can’t believe Congress blames P2P for security problems?
BITTORRENT IS A THREAT TO THE HOMELAND
(tags: P2P networkPolitics MPAA RIAA ridiculous.crap)

50+ Tools For Torrenting
(tags: bittorrent tools P2P distribution)

NewTeeVee µTorrent Is Coming To The iPhone «
(tags: bittorrent distribution mobile iPhone P2P)

In Defense of Dangerous Ideas
(tags: ideas Politics StevenPinker philosophy)

Mom Sues Universal Music for DMCA Abuse
(tags: RIAA Copyright networkPolitics)

Apple’s Revolutionary HyperCard
The History of Hypercard
(tags: hypercard programming apple hypertext interface history)

Verizon First to Offer Direct Video Upload to [...]

Ambient Devices
(tags: ambient technology visualization interactiondesign)

D-Link to support access to YouTube and other Web channels
(tags: distribution video film youtube hardware)

Cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs dies
(tags: film filmmaking cinematography)

The MP/RIAA and their puppets in the Senate are proposing blackmailing Colleges into doing their Due Diligence/dirty work. This proposal (Senate Amendment 2314) would withhold federal funding for student aid unless schools adopt surveillance and filtering technologies on their campus networks.

Please excuse the broken/ugly/random crap around here for the next week or so as I upgrade Wordpress, implement my custom theme and install lots of goodies.