August 17, 2007 at 3:13 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: Articles of Interest, casey-gibson, description, Goodies, internet, live_performance, matt-mcinerney, media, music, musical-contribution, networking, peer-to-peer, philosophy, playlist, something-explosive ·
Ah the internet, it empowers so many to do so much. Internet adventurer Matt McInerney, currently well known for his participation in the ZombieAttack Twitter story project & new website Gleamd, and musical compatriot, Casey Gibson, have taken to the tubes and produced a musical project they call Something Explosive.
Here’s a brief overview of their take on internet music, as taken from their Virb page:
We believe that our fans should be able to do whatever they choose with our music. If you’d like to use it in podcasts, videos, or mashups, feel free. We’d also love to see it shared whether it be through p2p networks or just passing a burnt cd to a friend. We’re happy to give away our songs for free. We’ll leave their worth up to you. If you’d like to pass us a little money, we’d greatly appreciate, but no pressure. If you want to download our entire album, you can download it as a torrent http://www.mininova.org/tor/754709 Or you could just download the zip file http://www.divshare.com/download/971824-23f
Matt was kind enough to answer a few questions for me via an email interview here a little while back. It helps highlight some of the band’s ideas on this whole “internet” thing, DRM, and gives newbies to computer music production a few tantalizing ideas on what is required to jam out and publish to the web.
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June 19, 2007 at 5:40 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: academy-of-sciences, Articles of Interest, Goodies, internet, Internet Toys, national-academy-of-sciences, networking, nodes, peer-to-peer, piracy, popularity-contest, proceedings-of-the-national-academy-of-sciences, Science!, structure-of-the-internet, volunteers, website-popularity, world ·
Today on MIT’s Technology Review: someone has taken up the mighty task of mapping the internet. The idea here is not to promote any one thing as the be-all-end-all of the internet world in an arbitrary website popularity contest, but to examine the current structure of the internet for the sake of SCIENCE!
They have a few amazing diagrams (such as the one below) showing the overall structure of the internet in terms of the most critical and populated nodes moving outward to more isolated nodes. 
The overall basis of the study was to determine whether or not peer-to-peer networking - often labeled as a black sea of piracy and other vile activities - could actually assist in speeding up the internet for everyone. Keep an eye on The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America for a full article from the researchers about their progress so far.
In the meantime, for more information or to participate in the ongoing study of the internet and its structure, visit the DIMES project to read the full details of the on going project or to volunteer. The current map was built with the help of around 5,000 volunteers, and already the research team was able to identify 20% more of the connections that make up the internet than any previous study has, so you can just imagine what kind of progress can be made with more volunteers!
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