Neal Pomea

Good point! Worth more research. I looked at Slashdot for perspective and don't feel it's objective. Too many Google connections there. Worth looking into what the advocacy groups for privacy are reporting.

There is this FAQ "What kind of information are they collecting and integrating?: Google collects and can integrate almost anything that’s already in the Google ecosystem: calendar appointments, location data, search preferences, contacts, personal habits based on Gmail chatter, device information and search queries, to name a few. " You may want to consider a different email system if you do not want Google to know your calendar.

Experts: Google privacy shift will have greater impact on Android users "But Opsahl said that because Google account holders cannot opt out of the new policy, he fears that the company’s efforts to compile information about users won’t accommodate those who want to separate their personal and professional digital lives. The policy change also alarmed some lawmakers and consumer advocates." Opsahl is Kurt Opsahl, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation I want to keep my personal and professional digital lives separate. I hope I can continue to have multiple YouTube accounts, maybe one for professional purposes and another for music videos. I don't want people I work with to track which music videos I saw lately and liked.

Eric Dolphy and Booker Little Live at the Five Spot. What a rhythm section!

I didn't think Fielder would be a good match for DC, but now we need to face it that our offense is not improved whatsoever. Maybe we can go for Votto in a couple of years.

Meh. Sounds like a 2012 glorified version of mail fraud. Only the govt. doesn't own the Internet, though it would love to. Sorry, Anonymous. Can't get excited and call you a bunch of Robin Hoods over this. For a bunch of people who chastise "old people" for not knowing how to use the Internet, what a bunch of rubes making comments on Reddit. If you have legit files to share you don't need Megaupload, a well known host site of illegal downloading. Just buy yourself some server space and upload your files to it. Get a domain name and make yourself traceable under a real name rather than an Internet handle like nedsexy or shitwhistle32. Who are the people who don't know how to use the Internet? It's just part of information literacy to know how to use information and data in a legal and ethical manner.

Post of the day! Thanks for those thoughts.

I wish I could get a good 20-25 song collection of Johnnie and Jack. I don't want to have to buy their 6 CD box set to get all the major hits. Even a 2 CD set would do me fine.

It's funny I forget about them! I was even born in Abbeville. They are sort of obscure.

Western Swing-influenced Cajun music: Leo Soileau & His Three Aces, Bluebird, January 1935 Hackberry Ramblers, Bluebird, August 1935 Happy Fats & His Rayne-Bo Ramblers, Bluebird, August 1935 Miller's Merrymakers (J.B. Fuselier), Bluebird, October 1936 Louisiana Rounders (Joe Werner), Decca, December 1937 Sons of the Acadians, Decca, December 1939 Chuck Guillory and His Rhythm Boys must have recorded after WWII Harry Choates started out in bands led by Happy Fats and Leo Soileau. In the 50s the swing influence morphed into something else in Louisiana with the dancehall, honky tonk sound of artists like Lawrence Walker, Iry LeJeune, Austin Pitre, Nathan Abshire, Aldus Roger, Lionel Cormier, Sidney Brown, Maurice Barzas, etc. Cliff Bruner toured southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas in the 1930s and was very popular, I understand. Sons of the Pioneers recorded in 1934 and should be considered swing for their instrumental recordings with the Farr Brothers. There is a museum for the Light Crust Doughboys in a hardware store in Mesquite Texas. I know my wife and I surprised the staff when we walked in and asked for it. Guess they mistook us for handy fixer uppers.

Joe Bussard's Country Classics from WREK, Atlanta Georgia. Half the show is old-time country, half is jazz. The jazz segment is called Jazz the World Forgot. Underwritten by Dust to Digital

Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Jabbo Smith, Bennie Moten, early Duke Ellington, Django Reinhardt. For post-jazz, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Bill Evans.

You're thinking of those fancy white Austrian horses they train to march funny.

Text of the public domain news release from the U.S. Copyright Office. Issue 446 - December 28, 2011 "Copyright Office Publishes Report on Federal Copyright Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings The U.S. Copyright Office today issued its report on Federal Copyright Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings, as required under the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009. The report, prepared after receiving written and oral input from stakeholders, recommends that sound recordings made before February 15, 1972 be brought into the federal copyright regime. "The Copyright Office is grateful for the opportunity to explore this issue and to assist Congress in addressing how best to preserve and offer appropriate access to these works that are such an important part of our cultural patrimony," said Register of Copyrights Maria A. Pallante. "We believe that bringing pre-1972 sound recordings into the federal copyright system serves the interests of consistency and certainty, and will assist libraries and archives in carrying out their missions while also offering additional rights and protection for sound recording right holders." Although sound recordings were first given federal copyright protection in 1972, sound recordings made before February 15, 1972 remained protected under state law rather than under the federal copyright statute. As a result, there are a variety of legal regimes governing protection of pre-1972 sound recordings in the various states, and the scope of protection and of exceptions and limitations to that protection is unclear. Current law provides that pre-1972 sound recordings may remain protected under state law until February 15, 2067. After that date they will enter the public domain. At the urging of sound recording archivists, Congress instructed the Copyright Office to conduct a study on the desirability of and means for bringing pre-1972 sound recordings into the federal copyright regime. Congress directed that study was to cover the effect of federal coverage on the preservation of such sound recordings, the effect on public access to those recordings, and the economic impact of federal coverage on rights holders. The study was also to examine the means for accomplishing such coverage. Bringing pre-1972 sound recordings into the federal copyright system completes the work Congress began in 1976 when it brought most works protected by state common law copyright into the federal statutory scheme. Federalization would best serve the interest of libraries, archives and others in preserving old sound recordings and in increasing the availability to the public of old sound recordings. The principal objection offered by certain right holders – that federalizing protection for pre-1972 sound recordings would cast a cloud over existing ownership of rights in those recordings – can be addressed by expressly providing that the ownership of copyright in the sound recording shall vest in the person who owned the rights under state law just prior to the enactment of the federal statute. The term of protection for sound recordings fixed prior to February 15, 1972 should be 95 years from publication or, if the work had not been published prior to the effective date of legislation federalizing protection, 120 years from fixation. However, In no case would protection continue past February 15, 2067, and In cases where the foregoing terms would expire before 2067, a right holder may obtain extended protection for any pre-1972 sound recording by making that recording available to the public at a reasonable price and, during a transition period of several years, notifying the Copyright Office of its intention to secure extended protection extended protection. The report is available on the Copyright Office website at http://www.copyright.gov/docs/sound."

Tommy Duncan

Nats are gonna be a good team in 2012. Scary good. Wish I were that optimistic. We still have no power hitters or guys who can drive in runs. Last year may have been a fluke for Michael Morse. This year might be Desmond's last with DC unless he can become a lead off hitter. Feeling good about "Spinoza" at second. But even with our pitching, we are going to get creamed next year by the Marlins, Phillies, and Braves. Might play better out of our division.

Never saw Sun Ra in person but I am sure the visuals must have added to the experience. And a lab coat and hard hat for the Art Ensemble seems to have meant much to a lot of people.

If Lady Gaga is number 1, the cultural question seems to be "How much does music enhance your visual experience?" I appreciate so many of the youtube videos people have been posting here.

Washington close to trading for Gio Gonzalez. We'll see. This would be good for the Nationals. ETA, i.e., Edited to Add: Deal went through. Gonzalez for pitchers Cole, Peacock, Milone, and catcher Norris, all minor leaguers. Milone was interesting in that he homered in his first major league at bat last year. Can't remember very many pitchers like that!

I was infected by a similar virus a week ago and had to get Premium Technical Support from Verizon, my FiOS provider, to remove it. Good luck removing it.

Sure are! I don't know sound editing, unfortunately, so some are quite mossy.

How did that ever get to Bob Weinstock? From what I understand it was self-financed by Prof. Oster for the Louisiana Folklore Society then pitched to Prestige International and Folk for distribution. Lease expired and he then sold his tapes to Arhoolie.

This is the cover of one of the most important Cajun French music lps ever. Austin Pitre on fiddle, Lurlin LeJeune on guitar, Melton Molitor on accordion. I love this album and this photo! Recorded by Dr. Harry Oster of LSU ~1956. Some of it was re-released officially by Arhoolie. Write up: here

I joined MySpace at the time when it was actually in competition with Facebook. Within months it seemed everyone was mocking MySpace like it was an 8-track tape and everyone was abandoning it for Facebook. Want me to put Facebook out of business in a few weeks by creating an account?

... and many more happy ones!