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This Reuters article describes how mobile phones are getting integrated into live shows. Artists can make exclusive offers available through phones and also fans can send SMS messages that then appear on the big concert screen for everyone to see.

The companies first worked together on a promotion for Anastacia in Europe. Renshaw said the initiative generated thousands of messages at each concert at a cost to users of 1 euro ($1.26) each. He estimated that 10 percent of the audience participated.

Very neat and takes advantage of people increasingly having these little buying devices on them all the time.

O’Reilly Radar >Podcast support in next version of iTunes. Jobs also takes an SNL-swing at podcasting describing it as “Wayne’s World for radio”.

The Guns N’ Roses Self-Similar Midi Synth is Guns n’ Roses songs made up of sped-up samples of entire Guns n’ Roses songs. How it works:

First, We took the recordings of several Guns N’ Roses songs, from the albums “Appetite for Destruction” (1987), “GN’R Lies” (1988), and “Use Your Illusion I and II” (1991). We sped up these recordings exponentially until the tempo of the song became a pitched frequency. This is generally in the area of 480 times faster than normal playback speed (at this speed a song that lasts 4 minutes would be over in 0.5 seconds). Then we take these short sounds use them as samples to play back midi files of various Guns N’ Roses songs. For instance, the GNR Self-Similar version of Sweet Child O’ Mine may use the entirety of November Rain as its snare drum sound and the entirety of Patience for a note in Axl’s voice. In this way, we can make Guns and Roses songs that are made up of very small Guns N’ Roses songs, which could reveal themselves under a sonic microscope, yet are too fast to hear in the actual final product.

Paradise City and Sweet Child O’ Mine are available.

The Beta of BitTorrent 4.1.0 has been released, the big addition being trackerless support. If it works as advertised, this is huge news as it’ll simplify bittorrent immensely and make bittorrent activity extremely difficult to find and shut down. More info on the trackerless mode is here.

‘Yoda’ – I’m kind of in love with this video of a Yoda puppet dancing to “Just a Gigolo”.

While I wait around for my CDs, I thought I’d give podcasting a try. Sellout Central is a simple show featuring five independent songs that I really like. The first episode is online now. I’ve also included links to all the MP3s for those of you who still like your audio in song-sized chunks.

The “Creative Commons Magnatune Lisa Debenedictis Remix Contest” has just started. 10 remixes will be chosen, and those winners will get signed to Magnatune. Source for my track Sick as a Dog is on the loops page.

Big Bends Nut Sauce – “Big Bends Nut Sauce stops problems with string breakage and eliminates problems with pitch drift. Big Bends Nut Sauce is a “state of the art” lubricant that will not run or drip.”

Here’s the source for my song Overreacting (50mb).

Saw this 3.2 million dollar art spider in town today and snapped a picture. Gotta go back once they attach the egg sac!