Warner Music Turns to Web
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- Warner Music Turns to Web
- Al-Qaeda claims Amman blasts
- The Boston Globe Downtown column.
- Freeing the airways | Economist.com
- No end to fight over surveillance law
- Classical with Peter Palmer.
- Close-Up: Live Issue – UK claims resounding success in Gunn Report.
Warner Music Turns to Web
Washington Post – Nov 11, 2005
, runs a search engine, but is trying to recast itself as an online publishing house that helps both obscure and established artists put their works online. In December, Lycos plans to start an online digital music label, said Alfred Tolle, chief executive of Lycos. "We want to position Lycos in this area of music, news, entertainment," and by using its existing audience of 25 million users it has a built-in audience for marketing and distributing home-grown music, he said. The goal of Cordless Recordings, Fiber said, is to identify more gems out of the "cacophony. " Ideally, it will not only give more aspiring artists a shot at stardom, it will help create communities of fans, and help the music industry evolve into new formats, he said. Last month, Warner Bros… Last month, Warner Bros. took a technological step away from the popular CD format when it released an album by independent rock band the Sun that was sold online, on vinyl record and on DVD, but not on CD. While the mechanisms for finding and promoting artists are evolving, Holzman argued that the fundamental experience of becoming a rock star isn’t so different from the days of Jim Morrison and the Doors. After all, he said, "every artist that’s a big artist today started small and simple," he said. "We are just trying to get them before the feeding frenzy begins. "© 2005 The Washington Post Company.
Al-Qaeda claims Amman blasts
NEWS.com.au – Nov 11, 2005
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said it was not yet clear who was behind the bombings, but told reporters it “has the hallmarks of Al-Qaeda. ”
Jordan reopened its borders after sealing them after the attacks, while increased security was in force at airports and police presence stepped up outside Amman hotels. Thousands waving Jordanian flags took to the streets of the capital and other parts of Jordan to vent their anger over the violence, attacking home grown extremist Zarqawi in particular. “These are evil acts carried out by cowardly people,” shouted 15-year-old student Hossam. King Abdullah has cancelled a planned visit to the West Bank and Israel due to begin Monday for talks on the Middle East peace process. Iraqi government spokesman Leith Kubba said the bombings showed that countries in the region had to stand together in the fight against terrorism. “This is a hard blow for Jordan and for Jordanian citizens, but this could wake up Jordan’s public opinion to the reality of what is going on in Iraq,” he said.
The Boston Globe Downtown column.
Free with registration – Boston Globe – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 11, 2005
11–BOSTON SAMPLER: A lot of news about our biggest home-grown companies has been about selling out, cutting back, or both. Boston is a difficult, high-cost place.
Freeing the airways | Economist.com
economist.com – Nov 11, 2005
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TWO years after the end of the first world war, America passed the Jones Act. This restricted the shipping of goods between home ports to American-owned vessels. The war had convinced lawmakers of the need to foster a home-grown fleet for use in times of conflict or national emergency. In 1944, while a more modern war still raged in Europe, governments meeting in Chicago took inspiration from the Jones Act while laying down the regulations that would govern international air transport. These were crafted to safeguard the vital strategic role of each country’s “flag carrying” national airline. On Monday November 14th, a new round of “open skies” negotiations is set to begin between Europe and America. This is the latest in a series of attempts in recent years to unpick the anti-competitive measures that were put in place in Chicago.
No end to fight over surveillance law
The Age – Nov 11, 2005
So where does it end?”said Glenn Manishin, an attorney with Kelley Drye & Warren whohas handled telecom regulation cases for companies and consumergroups. “Do they now have to have a backdoor into every webbrowser?”Plus, overseas services aren’t covered by the US law. Nor can ittouch any home-grown internet voice programs that serious criminalscould develop. “For the past two years, law enforcement has been saying, `If wejust had CALEA we’d catch all the terrorists,’” said John Morris,director of internet standards, technology and policy at the Centrefor Democracy and Technology. “Well, if they’re sophisticatedenough to evade all of our intelligence capabilities, they’ll besophisticated enough not to use a CALEA-compliant phoneservice. CALEA critics also say authorities haven’t shown that existingmonitoring methods are so weak as to justify costly new back doorsfor government. Indeed, while they are not nearly as common as phonesurveillance, computer wiretaps have been successful even withoutthe extra assistance CALEA might provide.
Classical with Peter Palmer.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 11, 2005
–> COPYRIGHT 2005 Financial Times Ltd. (From Nottingham Evening Post) From medieval and baroque to classical and contemporary, there’s much to enjoy in the next round of Djanogly Recital Hall concerts in University Park. Home-grown talent from the University of Nottingham can be heard in four events before Christmas. Igor Stravinsky’s spellbinding Mass of 1948 is the.
Close-Up: Live Issue – UK claims resounding success in Gunn Report.
Free with registration – Campaign – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 11, 2005
Six of 2005′s ten most-awarded commercials, including the runaway winner, Honda’s ‘grrr’, came from the UK. Wieden & Kennedy’s success with ‘grrr’ has been phenomenal: with a total of 35 points, it was 16 points ahead of the second most-awarded ad, Adidas’ ‘Laila’, from 180 Amsterdam. Home-grown success this year has helped the UK launch a serious challenge against the US’s dominance as the most-awarded country, closing the points gap to just six – the lowest it has been since the introduction.