John recently visited Tokyo and spoke at Joi Ito’s New Context Conference http://www.garage.co.jp/ncc2006.
While in Japan, John and Joi talked over an apparently delicious Japanese-Korean fusion dinner. Check out Joi’s blog on iCommons highlighting their discussion: http://icommons.org/2006/10/16/dinner-with-magnatunes-john-buckman
Joi is General Manager of International Operations for
Technorati http://www.technorati.com, Chairman of Six Apart
Japan http://www.sixapart.jp the weblog software company, and is on the board
of Creative Commons http://www.creativecommons.org.
Among his many accomplishments, Joi is also Chairman of iCommons http://icommons.org
an organization dedicated to developing a united global commons front by
collaborating with open content and free culture communities around the world.
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The Podcast is The Thing
This dynamic local theater group produces it's own behind-the-scenes
podcasts, covering everything from the challenges of performing Shakespeare to
backstage goings on.
For their latest, the podcasters used remix of Lisa DeBenedictis’ Below http://www.magnatune.com/artists/lisa_debenedictis
The podcasts can be heard at http://www.gapodcastnetwork.com/network-programs/north-fulton-drama-club/2006
Space Music NASA took the highest resolution
pictures ever obtained of two of the Universe's most-beautiful objects: the
Eagle Nebula and the Whirlpool Galaxy. By
projecting these amazing images on the planetarium dome along with the
compositions of our artists, the show is undoubtedly awe-inspiring.
We came, we saw, we are still
lookingIn honor of the Hubble's Telescope’s
15th Birthday, The Ott Planetarium at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah put together a special show with Magnatune music.
A nice variety of Magnatune music was used for the presentation, from Celtic harpist Cheryl Ann Fulton
http://www.magnatune.com/artists/fulton
to the
choral songs of the Ukrainian Saint Elijah Children’s Choir
http://www.magnatune.com/artists/elijah.
More about the Ott Planetarium can be found on their website
at http://community.weber.edu/planetarium/
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posted by Teresa Malango, Magnatune, 10/19/2006