[lbo-talk] distribution of hman activity, was Tower R

[Joel Schalit]

Lessig is absolutely right - as usual. The only qualifier I would  
have about his 'read only' environment statement is that the iPod can  
also function as a very high quality field recorder. Why more people  
don't use it for creative work still leaves me a little mystified.  
There are an increasing number of good microphones/adaptor combos you  
can buy for it.

I personally am still a huge fan of Mini-Disc recorders. I have a  
Sony Hi-MD  I use for all of my journalistic work - interviews, field  
recordings etc - and it doubles as a playback mechanism for music. I  
use it all the time, and the 1 gig disc media for it are extremely  
cheap.  No iTunes DRM restrictions with Sony's uploading software  
these days either.

Point in mentioning this is that there are enough portable media -  
software, playback and recording devices out there - to walk around  
all of the ideological and media ownership problems generated by  
iTunes. MDs aren't nearly as prevalent in the US as they once were,  
(still very popular in Europe and Asia), but they're still very easy  
to find. Recommended.

Best, Joel

On Jan 6, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Tayssir John Gabbour wrote:


> <http://www.lessig.org/blog/>
>
> So speaking of iPods, right now Lessig's blog lists iTunes as a
> commercial and "read-only" environment. Well, iTunes is the default
> gatekeeper to iPods, and it's maybe worth being aware of that...
>
>
> Tayssir
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