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There is a general belief that science proceeds by smooth cycles of discovery and sharing – that scientists formulate theories, investigat...

One of the reasons I am so excited by Spotify is that it is asymptotically approaching an online library of All Music. Even in its necessar...

One of the huge benefits of openness and sharing is that it divides up tasks into smaller, less onerous pieces: everyone contributes a littl...

The Web could have been invented for butterfly minds like mine. For example, in one of Stephen O'Grady's hallmark Q&As ( this o...

One of the defining characteristics of Second Life is the ability to build things. The most notable manifestation of this is the tens/hundr...

Here's an interesting idea : Use Linux or Microsoft Windows, the open source sndpeek program, and a simple Perl script to read specific ...