China's young people connect online (San Francisco Chronicle)
Alex Zhang opines on his blog about music and movies and, most recently, learning to drive on Beijing's congested roads. The 25-year-old sends instant messages to friends on his computer and cell phone, hangs out at social-networking site Xiaonei and... ...more...Click to download: Play along to Deerhoof's online sheet music (Guardian Unlimited)
Giving away a sneak preview of your new album online has become a familiar ploy, with dozens of acts (most famously, Coldplay) taking advantage of both the exposure and mailing list sign-ups an MP3 giveaway can generate. But San Francisco rock experimentalists Deerhoof are taking a more novel approach, by offering hand-drawn sheet music for Fresh Born, the as-yet-unheard first single from ......more... Search Scoop (Scoop.co.nz)
Australian music industry specialists Debaser and UK interaction artist Joel Gethin Lewis have this week been confirmed to speak at Semi-Permanent08, completing an impressive line-up of speakers at this year's annual design event....more... Mythic's Barnett: The Top 11 Lessons From Warhammer Online (Gamasutra)
Paul Barnett, creative director at Mythic Entertainment, is currently deep in the development trenches working on Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. He showed up at the Develop conference in Brighton, England to deliver a talk entitled "Lessons Learned from the Frontline of Warhammer Online," which, as one might expect, consists of a number of concise recommendations to other game developers, ......more... Radiohead sales show fans' loyalty to illegal sites (Independent)
More Radiohead fans downloaded the band's most recent album illegally than through the official website, despite the band making it available for free. ...more... Aims Online degree program expands educational options (Greeley Tribune)
Approximately 3,000 Aims Community College students last year took some of their classes over the Internet by enrolling in Aims online courses....more... Business Briefcase (Hernando Today)
GAINESVILLE Florida Farm Bureau's Young Farmers and Ranchers (YF&R) program has teamed up with America's Second Harvest, the largest charitable relief organization in the United States, to help feed America....more... Resurrection of the Colonial Theatre documented by Williamstown photographer (Berkshire Eagle)
Nicholas Whitman first knew the Colonial Theatre as a place to buy art supplies or to have pictures framed. A photographer, and, as he notes, "an occasional historian," he described his initial visit to the Miller Supply Co. back in the 1990s....more... Brad Winter brings his creativity to Cappa center (Rapid City Journal)
Near the main door of Black Hills Workshop?s Suzie Cappa Center, a men?s white dress shirt has been decoupaged onto a canvas. In another gallery room, a kitchen chair is covered completely with stamps....more... |