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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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Tom Morello, lead guitarist for Rage Against the Machine performing “Midnight in the City of Destruction” from his new solo album “The Fabled City” at the Wall Street Journal … of all places.

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Google investors have really only one question about YouTube: When does the search giant figure out how to turn those hundreds of millions of video views into cash?

While founder Chad Hurley is still bullish on YouTube’s ad potential, he told us that this one, big online video answer everyone was looking for didn’t exist. Instead, YouTube would be rolling out a range of options starting in the next few months.

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Tom Brokaw speaks passionately about the transformative power of technology at MIT.

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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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MIT’s Technology and Culture forum presents The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil featuring Philip Zimbardo.

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British rockers Charlatans UK breathe life into their latest release, Simpatico, with live versions on Morning Becomes Eclectic from KCRW.

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Smooth-talking escapee evades police

Woe is Carl Bordelon, a police officer for the town of Ball, La. His dashboard camera captured (below) his questioning of Richard Lee McNair, 47, on Wednesday. Earlier that same day, McNair had escaped from a federal penitentiary at nearby Pollock, La., reportedly hiding in a prison warehouse and sneaking out in a mail van. Bordelon, on the lookout, stopped McNair when he saw him running along some railroad tracks. What follows is a chillingly fascinating performance from McNair, who manages to remain fairly smooth and matter-of-fact while tripping up Bordelon. The officer notices that the guy matches the description of McNair — who was serving a life sentence for killing a trucker at a grain elevator in Minot, N.D., in 1987 — observes that he looked like he’d “been through a briar patch” and had to wonder why he would choose appalling heat (at least according to that temperature gauge in the police car) to go running, without any identification, on a dubious 12-mile run. But he doesn’t notice when McNair changes his story — he gives two different names (listen for it) — and eventually, Bordelon bids him farewell, saying: “Be careful, buddy.” McNair remains on the loose. (Note: Video is more than eight minutes long but worth it.)

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WGBH asked filmmakers, journalists, industry observers, and scholars to talk about the pressing trends in broadcast media and the future of television. Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Independent artist, writer, producer, and musician discusses “Exploring a Media Ecology”.

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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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The rising tide of digital communication has not lifted all boats equally, and threatens to leave others stranded altogether.

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This presentation is an academic look at entertainment, by Dolf Zillman, professor and senior associate dean at the University of Alabama.

“Given that the Age of Entertainment is upon us, it is astounding how little attention contemporary scholars have given to understanding what it is that draws us to entertainments and what, in cognitive and emotional terms, we get out of succumbing to the lure of these entertainments.”

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“El Doctor,” is a former accountant turned full-time surfer and coach of Puerto Rico’s surf team. He’s also a tenacious defender of his marine environment. FRONTLINE: World reporter Sachi Cunningham, herself a surfer, ventures to the Caribbean island to tell the tale of El Doctor and his surfer activists who challenge the army’s assault on their beach with sit-ins, the ingenious deployment of an inflatable doll and, ultimately, a successful lawsuit against the US Army Corps of Engineers. El Doctor even dons the costume of a comic super-hero, in the style of Mexico’s masked, caped crusader, Superbarrio, defender of the downtrodden.

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