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Friday, 3 February 2012
Fresh Hats Tight Beats - That's All We Need
That’s All We Need was created during a five day writing and recording extravaganza in Denver, CO during November 2011. These eleven tracks were further refined over a month and a half until New Years 2012 when the tracks were completed.
Released 10 January 2012
All tracks composed and performed by Phil Buck, Zach Matthews, Matt Nigro, and Tim Santos.
Phil Buck - bass, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keys, beats
Zach Matthews - beats, drums, percussion, keys, sound effects
Matt Nigro - beats, percussion, sound effects, synth bass
Tim Santos - acoustic & electric guitars, bass, keys, flute, beats, banjo, percussion
Featuring:
Nick Monks - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo (on “Course Clear!”)
Dave Benedict - trumpet (on “Mind The Line”)
Produced by Fresh Hats Tight Beats
Recorded at Studio-T in Denver, CO
Album Art by Leigh Buck
www.freshhatstightbeats.com
www.areyouawinslow.com
Ad Break: 'You were born of the 21st Century, now act like it'
Michael Stipe says:
I’ve been listening to the new Perfume Genius record all last week in Mexico, it is a beautiful and amazing record and a stunning 2nd album and achievement. But in trying to advertise the record and first video, this short clip has been banned by YouTube. For YouTube to deem this advertisement as “non family safe” is dumbheaded discrimination; I find their actions in doing so disgraceful and cowardly. YouTube, shame on you. You were born of the 21st Century, now act like it. Read more about this here: http://www.queerty.com/watch-the-perfume-genius-clip-that-got-booted-from-youtube-for-adult-content-20120125/
Google changes enable 'per country' blog takedowns
Blogger sites can now be blocked on a "per country" basis after a change to its web address system.
Google will now be able to block access in individual countries following a legal removal request.The new system means blocking will not require restricting world-wide access to a blog.
The changes apply in Australia, New Zealand and India, but the BBC understands Google plans to roll it out globally.
The news follows Twitter's announcement that it could selectively block tweets on a country-by-country basis - news that attracted criticism from free speech campaigners.
However, Joss Wright, research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, said he felt the changes to Blogger were a positive step.
"Google's new approach to supporting country-level takedown requests in Blogger strikes a good balance between free speech, legality and practical issues for end users.
"By allowing per-country takedown requests, Google can meet local laws without blocking content at a global level."
Change of address
Under the new system, a blog reader will, in the first instance, be directed to a website address using a "country-code top level domain".
For example, for users based in Australia, Blogger's servers will automatically direct them to blogname.blogspot.com.au.
"If you visit a blog that does not correspond to your current location as determined by your IP address, the blogspot servers will redirect you to the domain associated with your country," Google said in a Q&A the company posted about the changes.
Google believes this will allow it to comply with local law enforcement requests, while keeping content available in other jurisdictions.
Additionally users will also able to tell Google to direct them to a different country web address by adding "/ncr" - ncr stands for "No Country Redirect".
In order to read a blog via a US web address users outside America would type " blogname.blogspot.com/ncr".
"Blog readers may request a specific country version of the blogspot content by entering a specially formatted 'NCR' URL, " the company wrote in the Q&A.
It is not clear, however, if this would work for requests to access blocked blogs made from the jurisdiction in which the removal notice originated.
Keeping it local
The company has in the past taken a similar local approach to blocking content in other products.
For example, Google has said it removes all Nazi-related content from Google.de, the address for its German services.
In a 2007 blog post, which the BBC understands still reflects the firm's position, Google said that "dealing with controversial content is one of the biggest challenges we face as a company".
In the same post the company noted that different national laws on free speech "create real technical challenges, for example, about how you restrict one type of content in one country but not another".
With this system Google may have, for Blogger at least, answered its own question.
@'BBC'
(Thanx Helen!)
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