Digitization Topics in Recent News:
I ran across two articles in my RSS feeds that deal with a few of our digitization topics.
One is dealing with the new Microsoft Zune music player, which is a competitor to Apple’s iPod. The marketing hook with Zune, is that it has the following features: “Wi-Fi connectivity, video playback, Xbox integration and some sort of community feature for letting music lovers interact with each other.” (Buskirk, Microsoft IPod 'Killer' Is Doomed.) But best of all, Zune was to “offer music at a variety of download and subscription prices, rather than the flat $1 per-song standard inaugurated with Apple's iTunes Music Store.” .” (Buskirk, Microsoft IPod 'Killer' Is Doomed.)
Image: http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72172-0.html?tw=rss.technology
However, in “ Zune, Creative Commons Don't Mix”,
the latest news is that “the Zune only frees up tunes for a limited free sampling period -- a policy that actually interferes with the rights of artists who want people to share their works freely.” (Buskirk. “ Zune, Creative Commons Don't Mix”). This is where the Creative Commons licensing comes in- artists who are releasing their work under it, are being blocked by “the Zune's blanket hardwired sharing limitations -- a compromise hammered out to appease the record labels.” (Buskirk. “ Zune, Creative Commons Don't Mix”). If you read anything in the digitizationblog, I would recommend the Ariadne, Issue 49 article by Naomi Korn and Charles Oppenheim, “Creative Commons Licences in Higher and Further Education: Do We Care?“ for a good understanding of the Creative Commons issue, and especially how it pertains to education.
The second article I read is David Pogue’s November 21st post, “The Truth About Digital Cameras”. It’s an interesting experiment he did to test the effect of megapixels of digital cameras.
Image: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/11/21/21pogues-posts-2/
The point being is that the common assumption is that with a higher the megapixel camera, the higher the quality of an enlarged digital image should be. The results really surprised me; take a look if you’re interested into either digitization or (digital) photography.
One is dealing with the new Microsoft Zune music player, which is a competitor to Apple’s iPod. The marketing hook with Zune, is that it has the following features: “Wi-Fi connectivity, video playback, Xbox integration and some sort of community feature for letting music lovers interact with each other.” (Buskirk, Microsoft IPod 'Killer' Is Doomed.) But best of all, Zune was to “offer music at a variety of download and subscription prices, rather than the flat $1 per-song standard inaugurated with Apple's iTunes Music Store.” .” (Buskirk, Microsoft IPod 'Killer' Is Doomed.)
However, in “ Zune, Creative Commons Don't Mix”,
the latest news is that “the Zune only frees up tunes for a limited free sampling period -- a policy that actually interferes with the rights of artists who want people to share their works freely.” (Buskirk. “ Zune, Creative Commons Don't Mix”). This is where the Creative Commons licensing comes in- artists who are releasing their work under it, are being blocked by “the Zune's blanket hardwired sharing limitations -- a compromise hammered out to appease the record labels.” (Buskirk. “ Zune, Creative Commons Don't Mix”). If you read anything in the digitizationblog, I would recommend the Ariadne, Issue 49 article by Naomi Korn and Charles Oppenheim, “Creative Commons Licences in Higher and Further Education: Do We Care?“ for a good understanding of the Creative Commons issue, and especially how it pertains to education.
The second article I read is David Pogue’s November 21st post, “The Truth About Digital Cameras”. It’s an interesting experiment he did to test the effect of megapixels of digital cameras.
The point being is that the common assumption is that with a higher the megapixel camera, the higher the quality of an enlarged digital image should be. The results really surprised me; take a look if you’re interested into either digitization or (digital) photography.
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