by JAK | Jan 19, 2012 | big ideas, industry futures, TED
As many readers know there has been a internet blackout on a number of very large websites like wikipedia and WordPress.com and .org on 18th of Jan. As Clay Shirky sees it – SOPA & PIPA are designed to “raise the cost of copyright compliance” for...
by JAK | Jan 16, 2012 | culture, industry futures, music
One of the most fascinating chapters in Daniel Levitin’s book “This is Your Brain on Music” is about how musical tastes are often set early in life and become quite hard to change later on. It has been a while since I read the book but Levitin goes...