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May 27, 2018

Dead Media Beat: music in allegedly “silent” films

*Sure, the FILMS were silent, but that doesn’t mean the THEATER was silent. Sheet music, catalogs, just sitting around in the archives Music has been...

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Published on May 27, 2018 00:02

Thomas Cole (1801-1848). A swell painter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_... *There’s something proto-Hollywood about the guy, he really pours it on with the nifty props and the set design. *Also, when an American goes...

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Published on May 27, 2018 00:02

John Battelle on the GDPR

*He basically sees it as a de-facto arrangement between the European Union and the Stacks to lock in the power of Big Tech. Which seems...

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Published on May 27, 2018 00:02

“Moving Pictures in the Year 2000” by Margaret McDonald (1911)

*Media prognostication from a movie trade industry mag in 1911. Fritzi Kramer of “Movies Silently” really knows how to blog MOVING PICTURES IN THE YEAR...

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Web Semantics: vishing and smishing

*New cybercriminal terms of art. Don’t get vished by Tara Seals A pair of Romanian hackers have been extradited to the U.S. after allegedly bilking...

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Published on May 27, 2018 00:01

Musica Globalista: Bruce Sterling as “BJ DruceS”

*Jasmina is singing in Torino tonight. And that political intervention will be followed by a rare public appearance of deejay Bruce Sterling as “BJ DruceS.”...

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May 26, 2018

“Fancy Bear” can wreck your router

https://www.ic3.gov/media/2018/180525... FOREIGN CYBER ACTORS TARGET HOME AND OFFICE ROUTERS AND NETWORKED DEVICES WORLDWIDE SUMMARY The FBI recommends any owner of small office and home office...

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Published on May 26, 2018 00:02

Eurocrats trying to explain what’s going on today

*What the heck, I’m currently in Europe, I’ll read it (emoji) http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_... European Commission – Statement Statement by Vice-President Ansip and Commissioner Jourová ahead of...

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Published on May 26, 2018 00:02

The bastard son of Columbus: a universal librarian

*That’s some pretty strange stuff, folks. A review of: The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library By Edward...

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Published on May 26, 2018 00:02

Blog needs more graphics

*Looks too gray!

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