A great one liner: "the pun is the nanotechnology of literature".

Beyond Cyberhype

"If everyone else is putting out horrible CD's," he said, "why not buy something from people with taste you more or less trust?"

Little-Known Bands Get Lift Through Word-of-Blog

Pirate radio. E-zines. The blogosphere.

Proof that dissatisfied customers of any institution will, if the tools are at hand, build their own substitutes.

Revenge of the Amateurs

What will be left for the Western companies is the "ideation," the original concept and design of a flagship product (which is a big deal), and then the sales and marketing.

"I'm more of an idea rat."

(Incidentally, the noteworthy MemeStream is the number one response to a Google search for idea hawk.)

Even more interesting is how Indian firms are taking the skills they learned from outsourcing and using them to develop low-cost products for the low-wage Indian market.

India is putting high technology to work for the domestic market in the way that China has long put mass production technology to work for the export market.

Bangalore: Hot and Hotter

The June 2005 issue of IEEE Spectrum is filled with articles about the technology revolution in China. Most of the feature articles are publicly available; the editorial column, "Spectral Lines", entitled All the Tech in China, is available only to members, but here are two excerpts I wanted to highlight:

China today is the dragon in the living room of the world market. And everyone in that market has to come to terms with it.

This year China will graduate more than 300,000 engineers, so many that it has a glut of technological talent. All the current members of China's Politburo Standing Committee, the highest tier in the Communist Party, are engineers. Can the United States make a similar claim about its political leadership or the size of its technology workforce?

China's Tech Revolution | IEEE Spectrum

Download all nine of Beethoven's symphonies here the day after they are broadcast.

Grab Beethoven, free, while it lasts ... the first five symphonies are available now; the last four will be posted at the end of the month.

BBC - Radio 3 - Beethoven Experience - downloads

Should MemeStreams be using this?

Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. It's a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google to keep us informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to these pages.

With Google Sitemaps you get:

* Better crawl coverage to help people find more of your web pages
* Fresher search results
* A smarter crawl because you can provide specific information about all your web pages, such as when a page was last modified or how frequently a page changes

Google Sitemaps

Did you ever wonder where they go after they get out?

In a computer-crammed space at Savage Beast Technologies, divergent melodies seep softly from headphones worn by young men and women who listen to music with the intensity of submarine sonar operators.

Their job is to discern and define attributes in tunes by artists as diverse as teen diva Hilary Duff and jazz legend Miles Davis.

The listeners classify hundreds of characteristics about each song, including beat, melody, lyrics, tonal palette and dynamics, then plug the data into a music recommendation engine -- software designed to find songs that share similar traits.

Musical Tastes Get High-Tech Analysis

At last, the music recommendation technology that consumers have been waiting for ... one that is based on the music itself.

It's fun to use, supremely responsive, and driven entirely by the unique tastes of each individual.

To power this unique software, Savage Beast created the Music Genome Project, the most comprehensive musicological database of its kind.

The result is the first music discovery tool to truly put control in the hands of the consumer.

The CTO is a veteran of Pets.com!

Savage Beast Technologies

Last week I posted a notice about a State Department-sponsored workshop on blogging.

Yesterday the following notice was sent to the same mailing list, in advance of the event (which was held today).

THIS SESSION IS OFF-THE-RECORD; IT IS DESIGNED TO BE AN INFORMATIVE WORKSHOP FOR JOURNALISTS AND NOT AS A SUBJECT FOR REPORTING.

I am not making up the ALL CAPS thing. That is exactly how it appeared in the notice.

Isn't it ironic, don't you think?

First Rule of Blogging Workshop: Do Not Blog About Blogging Workshop