OR <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Why the Music Industry is Losing Money….. Whilst researching statistics for an article I am doing, I came across a little historical gem. The first CD ever issued back in 1982 was “<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />52nd Street” by Billy [...]
Or – How to increase Record Sales…… A few years ago (1994), a well known Australian journalist told me the secret of Journalism. “Tom, if you want to get published, just have something contrary to say about someone famous or a hot political subject and every journo in the land will want to ‘quote [...]
When I first signed up for a Facebook page – about 2005, I did not quite “Grok” Facebook. Why would a user want to say what they were eating for breakfast? Better yet, who the hell would be interested? I didn’t understand the sheep meme. Look at me – I can do this, you [...]
I was reading an article today and it struck one of my chords. You know the one deep down that makes you sit up say, “Hey, that's right.” The article talked about the negligible value of news as a “pay now to read” item. Think about it. Apart from the rubbernecking value – [...]
In the last three weeks I have noticed a decrease in filesharing. I considered that it might be a response to the unseasonably warm weather that Sydney is experiencing with people prefering to get outside than huddle over their computers. I may be wrong. The population of Sydney appear to be too busy with other [...]
Using the Search engine inside Emule will usually get hundreds of hits so it would appear that the Emule search index function is working as advertised. (Um, NOT.) Last month I identified that there were a lot of fake Lugundum servers whose role was to interdict your file requests with spam (fake files). In Australia [...]
So – you’ve decided to share in the bounty of the internet and utilize P2P. Should you use a Torrent client or a distributed hash file client like eMule/Kademlia? Some of your peers will consider that Torrent rocks, others will tell you that eMule is the best. Mostly it requires a decision from yourself. [...]
In Part one we introduced the concept that operating eMule is like any other program, you have to learn a little to get a lot. So today we will be discussing Responsible file Sharing and Fake Files. How do you notice that the file you are downloading is a fake? Unfortunately – [...]
Many will have noticed that my extremely popular Top 50/Top 200 P2P listing is conspicuous in it’s absence over the last two weeks. Have I stopped collecting the statistics ? Nope, I analyse them every night before I go to sleep. So why, you may ask, am I not publishing the results ? [...]
The radio in the car is tuned to Nova 96.9. My partners choice (she’s younger than I), but I find their irreverent format suits my tastes, mostly. Recently, I have started to become annoyed enough to want to change stations. In prime time, before little boys and girls are asleep in bed, Nova [...]