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The Lonely Forest, Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head and The Oregon Donor are Pacific Northwest pop bands finding new fans across the country. The groups are getting recording contracts, touring widely and generating buzz in the pages of pop music magazines like Spin. Part of their success comes from their prize winning performances at Sound Off. Sponsored by Seattle’s Experience Music Project, the Sound Off competition is a battle of Pacific Northwest bands made up of musicians 21 years old and younger.

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University of Washington President Mark Emmert and the department of Computer Science and Engineering host Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates for the final stop of his six-university tour, as Gates transitions from Microsoft to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Millions of cubicle dwellers across the country helped set records for Internet traffic on Tuesday as they watched online video of the inauguration ceremonies — or at least tried to. The overwhelming demand meant that some Web sites and data networks had trouble keeping up, forcing many people to turn to less cutting-edge forms of media.

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“It was really frustrating to have this great technology and still not be able to watch the speech,” said Dan Robinson, who runs the box office at the Julliard School in New York. “I had to use this TV from the early ’80s and some rabbit ears to watch it.”

Internet traffic in the United States hit a record peak at the start of President Obama’s speech as people watched, read about and commented on the inauguration, according to Bill Woodcock, the research director at the Packet Clearing House, a nonprofit organization that analyzes online traffic. The figures surpassed even the high figures on the day President Obama was elected.

“The peak is the highest measured to date, and it appears to be mostly a U.S. phenomenon,” Mr. Woodcock said, adding that it did not appear that global records would be set.
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From WNYC – “The video-sharing site YouTube is a reliable source of homemade comedy, political manifestos and quirky confessionals. It could also put some music teachers out of a job. Today we examine the pros and cons of music lessons offered through the popular online destination.”

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With the arrival of digital technology, we’ve become a nation “of multitaskers, snackers and samplers,” says Jonathan Miller, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AOL. A longtime player in the media industry, Miller perceives two distinct trends emerging: the fragmentation of consumption, due to “an incredible explosion of choice,” and the consolidation of money and power in the business.

These intertwined phenomena will continue to play out, Miller believes, “to the consumers’ benefit,” because the consumer is in control. Content is available across many platforms, from cell phones to laptops to handheld games, and with broadband and wireless penetration, users can get their fix of video, news, entertainment and data virtually anywhere, anytime. Consumers have at their command cheap and easy ways to produce and distribute their own content, whether original or freely exploited from other authors. There’s been a grassroots explosion of blogs, websites, mashups, instant messaging, and YouTubing. Miller notes that the internet served up five billion screens of video in 2002, and in the past year, five times as many.

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“For years, Ben Waggoner’s been sharing his expertise on video codecs with the streaming industry. These days, he’s working on Windows Media, and here he provides the lowdown on the latest developments in Microsoft’s audio and video codecs.”

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Princeton University's Cornel West, rapper Talib Kweli, and U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters of California join a panel of hip-hop artists and academics to explore the role of hip-hop in America

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Ben Harper and his band perform an uplifting set of great music on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic:

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Watch the Arctic Monkeys, the popular post-punk spitfire band from across the ocean, live at Coventry Coliseum in the UK :

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Scholars, journalists and podcasting practitioners discuss how technology intersects with business, law, journalism and Internet culture. From the Duke University Podcasting Symposium, watch “Business & Monetization Panel Discussion about podcasting”.

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The much-anticipated convergence of television and the Internet has not happened as anticipated. Instead, an ecosystem of mobile media devices is moving media consumption away from the desktop and into the living room using relatively simple web syndication technologies. Building on the combined cultural shifts of weblogs, the iPod and TiVo, streaming media is experiencing a long-awaited breakthrough into the cultural mainstream. This panel of experts will discuss some major effects of podcasting on mainstream media, and what’s happening with video blogging.

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The Go! Team might just have one of the catchiest albums of the year, “Thunder Lightning Strike.” Their unique sound is made up of sunshine funk, big beats, peculiar samples, adrenaline-pumping rock, TV theme songs and the occasional cheerleader. (Yes, cheerleader) It opens with a charged trashcan drum song, “Panther Dash,” before slipping into a series of funky, blippy grooves.

Those sounds run through the entire album, alternating between hyperkinetic rock’n'roll and colorful electronic big beats. It’s all jammed with harmonica, horn, what sounds like a sitar, and hip-hop flourishes. And whatever style it is, it’s danceable from beginning to end, densely packed with fun beats and wild rhythms.

KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic had the entire Go! Team in their studios for a live performance. Definitly worth a watch / listen.

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