Groove Armada musician signs exclusive O2 deal

Andy Cato, one half of the dance music act Groove Armada, has signed up with O2 to be the first independent artist to regularly release new tracks specifically for mobile phone customers to download.

In an attempt to gain control over digital downloading, Cato will make two tracks available exclusively to O2 Mobile customers each week. Released within days of their creation, the tracks will cost £1 each to download and Cato and O2 will split the revenue equally.

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Patholog: Creating Location-Based Web Logs (PDF)
From the conclusion:

The test case was focused to a smaller neighbourhood in Los Angeles, and the result was a dramatically more dense mesh of community-authored content. Published pathologs quickly reflected a more engaging story of community—not simply individual—movement and interaction with the environment.

With increased density, however, comes a problem of superabundance of content. In the future, how will embedded media be filtered so that users only get the content they want, and none of the excess?

Via Netzwissenschaft