Hey Doc (and Doc-ettes),

I'm guesting this Friday, 12/20/2002 6:30 pm PT, on a Music in 2002 version of the The Lounge on KPBS Radio in San Diego (89.5 FM, Internet). In addition to Jazzy and San Diego things, I wanted to bring up the impact of DMCA on music in 2002.

I thought I had seen a link to a DMCA weblog on your blog, but can't find it for the life of me (it may have been a second-level link from your site). I'd like to read that for DMCA impacts in 2002 and ask you or your readers for other suggestions for significant impacts of DMCA during 2002 and what will/can happen in 2003.

Thanks for any pointers or insight...VO

Let's see what we can put together on this truly important subject. Jazz 88 has already suffered.
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"One summer day in 1826, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce placed a metal plate inside a black box in a sunny window at Le Gras, his country estate in the south of France. After 8 hours, Niépce found that with his primitive camera, he'd achieved a goal that he'd been striving after for years: He'd produced a permanent image recorded onto a photosensitive medium. It was the first successful example of "fixing permanently the image from Nature," Niépce told members of the Royal Society when he traveled to England in 1827."

Unlike Doc, I'm not going to miss the old way. Digital photography and the 'cheapness' of its processing (really nothing other than disc space if you don't like the shot) has opened up a whole world of capturing moments and memories for me. I would never have started taking pictures and (at least trying to) seeing things a little more closely if it hadn't been for digital cameras. But I am fascinated with how things are changing from old to new and admire those archiving the past as a reference point for the future.
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I always play "Wave / Mother Nature's Son" and will probably use it as part of my contribution to the Music of 2002 appearance on The Lounge (KPBS Radio 89.5 FM) this Friday, 12/20/2002, at 6:30 pm. You can also pick it up on the Internet.
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"If Lott didn't see the storm coming, it was in part because it was so slow in building. The papers did not make note of his comments until days after he had made them. But the stillness was broken by the hum of Internet "bloggers" who were posting their outrage and compiling rap sheets of Lott's earlier comments. It took a few more days before Democrats denounced Lott and demanded a censure."

As usual, a link in one direction (bloggers) has taken me in a different direction (my past).

I found the CNN article itself to be pretty enlightening and giving a bit of background on the Senator's life. Besides the fact that it reads, in light of events, as a sort of obituary, I found it enlightening on a rather close to home subject, growing up in Mississippi. My dad's family is from Mississippi and I've never really asked him about racial issues, although in honesty there does seem to be this feeling that growing up in that era, even though you didn't choose it yourself, leaves you with certain racial baggage that is probably never owned up to or repudiated by the vast majority of people with that background. Should they be embarassed about it? Should the publicly show remorse for an upbringing they didn't choose? It's an interesting question of how one should deal with this type of past. Maybe I'll ask Pops about it.
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