Saturday, January 31, 2009

Ah, the irony

For those who need an explanation: Google is saying that a Microsoft support website will harm your computer.  Google and Microsoft don't always like each other, I guess.

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Free Online text to speech (TTS) converter SpokenText

Free Online text to speech (TTS) converter SpokenText

Friday, December 19, 2008

Content Editing: Unintended Consequences

Larry Richman over at LDS Media Talk asks the following questions:

Has your family tried filtered movies? What was your experience? What do you think of this approach to creating family-friendly entertainment?
My reply:
My only problem with content editing is that someone still has to watch the bad stuff and the people making the bad movies are still financially rewarded for doing so. Perhaps the ‘clean flicks/clear play’ industry has backfired in this regard.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Pandora Radio and the Music Genome Project

Pandora Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music:
"Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or 'genes' into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like."

Sunday, December 14, 2008

The cover of the Montgomery County map