Daily Archives: May 4, 2008

Cognitive Surplus…

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 4, 2008

Alan Herrell posts Clay Shirky’s recent O’Reilly Web 2.0 talk at Raving Lunacy. It’s an eye-opener for anybody who is the least bit of a cliometrician. He posits that millions of brain dead hours we’ve spent on the couch staring into the TV set have begun to be converted to something new, something shared, something [...]

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John Says

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 4, 2008

… three of the more dramatic domestic events… Yesterday I listened to (and blogged) Leslie Winer’s “5″ from Witch. She’s uploaded the whole album to YouTube. Toward the end of “5″ we hear a dramatic harmonic, dramatic to my generation, the simple progression from a high E up to the B above it. At least [...]

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