NY Philharmonic Launches Digital Archive

The New York Philharmonic has started placing its vast archives on the Internet. It's a multi-year undertaking that will total 8 million pages. The orchestra launched the digital archive on Thursday with 300,000 pages from the Leonard Bernstein years, from 1943 to 1970. By 2012, 1.3 million pages from the Bernstein years will be online.  http://www.newsok.com/ny-philharmonic-launches-digital-archive/article/feed/239931?custom_click=pod_headline_music

Filesharers Set Out Their Demands

Filesharers have created a "Digital Media Delivery Manifesto" that lists what they want digital media services to do in exchange for the end of piracy. At the Lift11 conference in Geneva, a workshop titled "Don't Make Me Steal" tasked attendees with collaboratively coming up with a definitive answer to the following question — "I promise that I will not pirate video content if I'm offered a legal alternative that is…" http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/filesharer-demands/

Why Music Can’t Just Be Free: The Artists’ Side of the Story

Of course, the history of music and all the arts throughout history has depended upon funding as much as creativity. Where would Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci have been without the Medicis? http://blogs.forrester.com/mark_mulligan/11-02-04-why_music_cant_just_be_free_the_artists_side_of_the_story

New Study Provides Further Details on the Impact of Piracy

Adding to several recent reports that are shedding light on the cost of piracy is today's release by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) predicting that by 2015, the annual global economic impact of piracy and counterfeiting will reach $1.7 trillion and put 2.5 million jobs at risk each year. http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/2011/02/new-study-provides-further-details-on-the-impact-of-piracy/

Tips, Tricks, Secrets

CHARACTER

"The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out."

–– Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) -- British writer and politician

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WORDS THAT ARE OFTEN USED INCORRECTLY

principal, principle

Principal means chief or main, also the amount borrowed in a loan; principle means regulations or ideals.
“The principal reason for the company’s failure was lack of money.” (or)
“The new principal is making a real difference to our school.”
“We are paying both principal and interest each month on our mortgage.”
“She is completely without principles and would steal from her own mother.”

profit, prophet

Profit means gain, earnings, advantage, and is usually associated with business. A prophet is a seer, a diviner. I saw this mix-up in a writer’s group, of all places!
“What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loseth his soul?”
“A prophet is without honour in his own country.”

quiet, quite

Quiet means without noise; quite when used in fiction usually means moderately, but can also mean totally or entirely. Use of the wrong word here could, of course, simply be a typing error that went unnoticed in the proofreading stages!