Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Offline Scrobbling Idea

Offline Scrobbling Idea for libre.fm from portable music devices.

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Offline Scrobbling Idea by drew Roberts is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

OK, so I was playing music on my son's Zen today for him while he was doing some of his homework. This idea came to me.

Why not have device makers accumulate scrobbling data while not connected to the net and then allow the resulting file to be processed by the device or the user's PC at a later time?

Thoughts on this idea appreciated.

all the best,

drew

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Care about FreeArt?

Care about FreeArt?

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Care about FreeArt? by drew Roberts is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

If you care about Free Art it might make sense to give as much of your attention budget as possible to those making it. Make it a non-zero amount.

Your attention includes promoting it to others.

Some of your monetary budget might be a good idea too but I figure your attention budget might be more important.

If you prefer to think of Free Culture or a subset such as Free Music, cool.