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In June, I entered a remix competition for Chelsea Jade’s Night Swimmer. Thanks to Red Bull and The Rockshop, I got a chance to play with the tune that first interested me in Chelsea Jade’s gorgeous dream pop.
I didn’t do her tune justice but it rekindled an interest in something I’ve dabbled with since I was in my teens—noodling around with computer music....

“If you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.” Nothing to fear unless you have a very good definition of “wrong” and know precisely whose definition is being used.
Another popular defence of pervasive surveillance is “privacy is a modern idea—until recently we lived in villages and everyone knew what everyone else was doing.” While this may have been true, the world beyond the village did not, except in very extreme...

Metadata is data about data; from the dictionary: a set of data that describes and gives information about other data. The smallest element you can resolve is pure data, everything else is metadata.
Any jurisdiction claiming its interest lies only with “metadata” can almost certainly make a case for anything of interest being metadata....

Just spent a great day at a workshop run by Heather Champ and Derek Powazek.
A fabulous insight into what it takes to run a community web site from the ground up: from the whos, whats and whys right through to the erradication of trolls. (Or, at least, the enthusiastic discouragement of trolls.)...