Larry Lessig spoke at Penn yesterday as part of the Penn Reading Project. His book, Free Culture, was given to all freshmen who were split up into discussion groups after Lessig's presentation. Penn Law professor Polk Wagner presented an opposing side. I was excited to see the famed Lessig presentation method in person and I hope Professor Lessig makes the presentation (or at least the links to the videos he showed) available.
I've got some pictures up on Flickr and here's a direct link to the audio.
This audio work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
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Paul's post yesterday about why he pays for music made me realize something: no legitimate online music store will ever sell music in a lossless format. I originally posted this as a comment to his post, but I think it was important enough to share here:
Sadly, I don’t think we’ll ever see DRMed lossless music without serious CD-burning restrictions (read: no burning whatsoever). Once you get into the lossless realm, burning/ripping to/from CD doesn’t cause any degradation like it does with lossy formats, so it would be trivial to strip the DRM from a lossless file at the cost of a CD-R (and maybe not even that if you want to get fancy with disk images and such).
So while I do think we might get incremental upgrades in quality from iTunes et al (a small bump to 192kbps), we won’t see lossless from them because lossless = DRM-free.
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I just got an email from the Warehouse, the Dave Matthews Band fan organization, announcing that Dave will be playing a solo acoustic set at Farm Aid this year. This comes at no surprise since Dave is on the Farm Aid board and has played at the benefit concert for the past few years.
What is surprising is the news that this year's Farm Aid will take place at the Tweeter Center at the Waterfront in Camden, New Jersey which is just across the river from Philadelphia. This will be my first time seeing Dave perform solo so it should be a real treat.
The Warehouse ticket request period is currently taking place and will close at noon on July 18th. The public on sale date is Saturday, July 22 at 10am Eastern Time.
From the email:
The mission of Farm Aid is to keep family farmers on their land. Family farmers are our only guarantee for fresh, local food. Our goal is to bring together family farmers and citizens to restore family farm-centered agriculture. Family farmers ensure safe, healthful food, protect natural resources, and strengthen local economies. For more information, please visit www.farmaid.org
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Originally posted on The Blog That Jane Likes.
Tweeter Center at the Waterfront
Camden, NJ
One Sweet World *
What Would You Say
Can't Stop
Crush *
If I Had It All *
Raven *
Say Goodbye
Dancing Nancies * >
Warehouse * >
Typical Situation *
Tripping Billies *
JTR *
Smooth Rider * >
What You Are *
Everyday *
Stay *
Encore:
Two Step *
Guests:
All songs with Butch Taylor
* Rashawn Ross on Trumpet
Take everything I said about the energy during night 1 and flip it upside. The band was definitely on fire tonight and didn't really want to stop between songs, as showcased by the unusual segues present. If I Had It All made its return tonight with an extended jam reminiscent of the Dreamgirl jam (yes, that's a good thing). Just as the band finished an explosive Dancing Nancies > Warehouse duo, the band segues into Typical Situation AND then tops that off with Tripping Billies in what can only be described as a 40 minute giant ball of energy. I also noticed there was no pause between Everyday and Stay, something the official setlist doesn't reflect but that just added to the electric atmosphere on stage.
The band switched up American Baby Intro and Rapunzel in the encore for Two Step in response to crowd chants for it. I was a bit upset during the show because I thought the band had foregone Shotgun and Kill The King in favor of Two Step. After seeing what was on the original setlist, I would have been fine either way.
I am sad that I didn't get to hear Shotgun or Kill The King, but the band's solid performance more than made up for it. It should also be noted that this was the first two-night stand since 2003 that no songs have been repeated, something that was bound to happen sometime this tour since last year was an album year and the year before that had the four new songs being played every night.
The band now takes a strange break from the east coast for a two-night stand at Alpine in Wisconsin before coming back to Virginia Beach on Independence Day.
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Originally posted on The Blog That Jane Likes.
Tweeter Center at the Waterfront
Camden, NJ
Don’t Drink the Water *
When The World Ends *
Pig *
Proudest Monkey *
Satellite *
Crash Into Me
Lie In Our Graves *
Hunger For The Great Light *
So Right *
Jimi Thing *
Grey Street *
Break Free *
So Much To Say * >
Anyone Seen The Bridge * >
Too Much *
The Idea Of You *
Louisiana Bayou *
Encore:
Sister
The Dreaming Tree *
Ants Marching *
Guests:
All Songs with Butch Taylor
* Rashawn Ross
Notes:
~ Dave Solo
This was my first show of the summer and 11th all-time DMB show. I saw seven songs I'd never seen live before (Pig, Proudest Monkey, So Right, Break Free, The Idea Of You, Sister and Dreaming Tree). All in all this was a pretty standard show for this tour. Nothing spectacular came out of the setlist and the song performances, while energetic were nothing I haven't heard this tour. The show met my expectations but nothing wowed me like Hello Again on 7/29/04 did, for example. This is not to say I didn't enjoy the show, on the contrary, I had a lot of fun and I'm glad the weather held up for the most part (a few sprinkles here and there). It was also pretty cool to hear some people singing along to Break Free and The Idea Of You. I hope that we may have done a little something to make that happen :)
I'm really looking forward to tonight, where the band will most likely pull out Shotgun, Can't Stop and Kill The King and old favorite JTR.
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The Dave Matthews Band debuted a new song last night, "The Idea Of You." I've posted the download on my new DMB-only blog, The Blog That Jane Likes.
Links:
Download
Lyrics
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From the LyricWiki site:
LyricWiki is a free site which is a single source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song from any artist without being hammered by invasive ads.
This is a great alternative to having to visit those bulky sites riddled with ads, popups and flash when you want to know the lyrics to a song you're listening to. Best of all, anyone can contribute lyrics so even if you do have to visit one of those awful sites, you can add the lyrics to the Wiki so no one else has to go through the same trouble.
They have a Firefox search plug in, but I hope that in time their Google Juice gets high enough so that anytime you search "'song name' lyrics" in Google, you get them instead of the bad guys as the top result.
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Behold the power of blogs…
As I wrote last month, Stefan Lessard of DMB started a blog on his site and began engaging fans in conversation via his MySpace page.
JTR (link to mp3), a song that previously thought to have been shelved forever, made a comeback after not having been played for almost 5 years last Saturday at the New Orleans JazzFest. The reason? Fans requested it and Fonzi delivered.
A lot of people have been coming to me saying "I thought that you hated JTR". I'm not really sure where this comes from but I don't hate any of our songs. I don't remember telling Cali that we would never bring JTR back but if I did say that exactly then I apoligize, I must have been being sarcastic and it was probably taken out of context like so many things that are said from the band members.
OMG The Edge!!! This Jazz festival was so amazing and the crowd rocked so hard! We loved playing JTR for everyone and you all can give yourself pats on the back because of the messages that I read informed me how much the fans love that song.
Emphasis mine.
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A mere 5 days after O.A.R. played in front of a sold-out audience for the University of Pennsylvania's Spring Fling a recording of the show has appeared on archive.org. It's downloading as I write this.
O.A.R. (.....of a revolution.)
April 7, 2006
University Of Pennsylvania - Spring Fling
Philadelphia, PA
Taper: Nathan Acker (somovedon@gmail.com)
Source: SBD + CMC-4 Mix
(SBD) SBD -> Henry Engineering Patchbox -> Creative Nomad Jukebox 3
(AUD) SP-CMC-4 (card) -> SP-SPSB-6 -> Creative Nomad Jukebox 3
Conversion: Nathan Acker (somovedon@gmail.com)
Equipment: Nomad Jukebox 3 -> IEEE 1394 -> Adobe Audition 2.0 for Mix -> CD Wave
***** DO NOT ENCODE TO MP3 WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE TAPER!!! *****
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Disc 1:
01: Introduction
02: 52-50
03: Destination (Fire On The Mountain Tag)
04: Lay Down
05: Untitled
06: Anyway
07: Heard The World
08: Hey Girl
09: Wonderful Day
Disc 2:
01: One Shot
02: The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) ->
03: City On Down (First Half Only) ->
04: Delicate Few (Second Half Only)
05: I Feel Home &
06: Sunday Bloody Sunday
07: Love And Memories
08: E: That Was A Crazy Game Of Poker
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Notes:
Entire show with Michael Paris on keys, vocals, and percussion.
Compiled by Nathan Acker on April 8, 2006
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Ants Marching, a DMB fan site, links to a "blog" post that Bassist Stefan Lessard (aka Fonzy) has made on a snowboarding/skateboarding site he started with Ed Robertson of the Barenaked Ladies.
Once I read the news, I went to the site and looked for the RSS icon to popup in the address bar, but no luck. My excitement about this "blog" quickly waned when I realized that I'm actually going to have to go to the site to see when its updated. Ugh, checking for updates is so Web 1.0. Bring it to my feed reader, dammit!
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