Gleanings: Kennedy and Obama, Media and Minorities, Stegner and Smokler
A little light reading...
- Senator Ted Kennedy endorses Barack Obama. This race gets more interesting by the day.
- Which got me thinking. Who are the longest serving members of the Senate? Wikipedia has the whole list.
- NY Times: Social Entrepreneurs are all the rage at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos (via GreenBiz.com).
- Dying to read this story in the new Atlantic Monthly about digital music and its future (via Waxy.org).
- Philadelphia Inquirer: A profile and new biography of Wallace Stegner, whom I've always wanted to learn more about.
- New America Media: A fascinating take on "The New Media" and its evolution in minority communities.
- Hackzine profiles a way to grab music from the stupid little flash players on MySpace.
- It's now possible to listen to music on-demand at Last.fm.
On the subject of digital music, the Boston Globe just ran an interesting article on non-compressed (that is, .wav instead of .mp3) download services. Not iTunes or Amazon, of course, but a few small outfits:
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/01/28/more_music_dealers_offering_downloads_with_sound_quality_that_rivals_a_cds/