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Monday, December 16, 2024

When rich creatives support local media: Stephen King

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Rich people buying media properties or getting involved in adjacent media businesses is not necessarily a bad thing. We've seen some gre...
Monday, February 13, 2023

Resurrecting Feiwu's 2013 interview with GigGuide

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I discovered recently that an interview Bob and I did 10 years ago on GigGuide.tw before our February 17 2013 reunion shows in Taipei and a...
Sunday, January 1, 2023

IBM ThinkPad 701: Powerful enough to run DOOM!

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In 1996, I bought a used IBM ThinkPad 701c (486 architecture) in a Hong Kong computer market. I think it was about $900. A journalist at the...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

Why our ancestors sometimes lied on official records in the pre-digital age

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I'm reading a memoir by MIT professor Sherry Turkle , The Empathy Diaries . I attended a talk she game some years ago at the MIT Media L...
Saturday, May 8, 2021

What killed rock n' roll? Payola 2.0

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There is an interesting article titled " Bob Dylan Lays Down What Really Killed Rock ’n’ Roll. " I don't agree with the thesis...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

What's holding back Taiwan entertainment media on the global stage?

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Why does most Taiwanese film and media struggle outside of East and Southeast Asia, while Korean pop culture takes the world by storm? I...
Tuesday, February 4, 2020

How dance music was made circa 1991

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There is a great video about late 80s/early 90s studio tech, specifically the budget Amiga sampler ecosystem that drove a lot of experimenta...