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Music in China: The Inside Story | The Register
An exploration of the music industry in a very different culture. One striking anecdote: apparently the Chinese version of pop idol terrified the Chinese authorities because of the level of participation in its “democratic” decision making
(tags: china musicindustry)
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BenCurtis.com » Painless Rails action caching with memcached
One of a number of pieces building on Tobias Lütke’s suggestion that the best way to do cache expiry is not to expire a cache.
(tags: caching memcached rubyonrails)
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“Sparrow is a really fast lightweight queue written in Ruby that speaks memcached.” – there’s a lot of conversation around messaging/queuing at the moment and this looks like a good tool
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About This Blog: Beanstalk Messaging Queue | Ruby on Rails for Newbies
How one blogger is using a messaging queue
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stompserver’s stompserver-0.9.8 Documentation
Another messaging server
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Ryan’s Scraps: What’s New in Edge Rails: Pluggable Controller Caching
It looks like caching is one of a number of areas getting nicely refactored APIs in Rails 2.1
(tags: api caching refactoring rubyonrails)
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Best Authorization System Ever
A high claim to make, but this does seem like a decent option for rails authorization systems
(tags: authorization rubyonrails)
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Myspace UK’s new attempt to profile “the latest picks of brand new talent”. Shares the rest of myspace’s apalling design, though thankfully with less intrusive advertising.
(tags: earwig musicpromotion myspace)
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BBC NEWS | Business | Warner agrees to use MP3 format
Is the DRM camp finally packing up?
(tags: futureofmusic musicindustry warner)
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Strike hiatus prompts Hollywod writers to go it alone | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
A number of Hollywood writers are looking to bypass the studios and self-distribute online. It’ll be interesting to see if they can find a revenue model to fund the production budgets they’re used to, but in many ways this seemed inevitable
(tags: hollywood mediadistribution movies screenwriters strike television)