It’s clearly not plagiarism or churnalism – but was it an error in another way? Yes. I now see it was wrong, and I wouldn’t do it again.
Why? Because an interview is not just an essayistic representation of what a person thinks; it is a report on an encounter between the interviewer and the interviewee. If (for example) a person doesn’t speak very good English, or is simply unclear, it may be better to quote their slightly broken or garbled English than to quote their more precise written work, and let that speak for itself. It depends on whether you prefer the intellectual accuracy of describing their ideas in their most considered words, or the reportorial accuracy of describing their ideas in the words they used on that particular afternoon. Since my interviews are long intellectual profiles, not ones where I’m trying to ferret out a scoop or exclusive, I have, in the past, prioritised the former. That was, on reflection, a mistake, because it wasn’t clear to the reader.
Tag: collaboration
One Billion Minds
The One Billion Minds mission is to Mobilize and Unleash the minds of individuals on challenging problems in Science, Technology, Design, Business or Social Innovation faced by individuals, corporations and nonprofit organizations.
The toughest challenges always have the simplest of answers. Hans Hendrikse invented the Qdrum to solve the invisible problem of millions of women carrying water over long distances.
Music sharing/distribution
Just been having a look at soundcloud – a way of uploading and distributing music. Established by a couple of musicians/engineers in Germany in 2007, it has begun to eclipse MySpace as the place musicians publish their music. It’s helped by the integration of its API in various Apps for the Iphone and Android making it much easier to capture and upload music to your account. Various widgets also help the marketing of songs each of which are given their own page and can be embedded pretty much anywhere. Here’s an example of an embed from the site.
http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F11174639&show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=f77604
Why Me? by MiladMaleki A.K.A MilamDo
Online Metal – music sharing/collaboration
“Djent is really an online phenomenon,” explains Sander Dieleman, webmaster of got-djent.com. “The internet gives young artists a way to easily share their music, and it’s very easy to produce professional-sounding music in your bedroom. If you want to play djent, all you need is a guitar, a computer, a guitar interface and understanding neighbours.”
Heavy metal famously shunned the whole online thing thus making of their refusal to connect a kind of cult. This sub-genre of metal (how many sub-sub forms are there?) has instead grown from a connection with the online. Bedroom forums and amp simulators running on heavy games computers ..
Nice to see the comments in the djent forum though – please to see they are in the mainstream (a Guardian article).
REM and Remix
R.E.M.HQ: Download REM Multitracks
Several years ago, Nine Inch Nails released a set of multitrack recordings so you could remix various Nine Inch Nails songs using applications such as Garageband…
…then Radiohead had a go…
…and now it’s REM’s turn, with the release of a Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial- Share Alike licensed remix pack for the song “It Happened Today.”
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