The Mixtape Museum (MXM)

Create an environment that encourages dialogue between scholars, music professionals, and enthusiasts on the mixtapes various functions in society.

The Mixtape Museum (MXM) is an archive project established to collect, preserve, and share knowledge concerning mixtape history.
The MXM is devoted to advancing public understanding and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and impact mixtapes have made around the world. While encouraging the research of mixtapes as records of time, place and situation, it will also examine the individuals that have shaped their existence. Through exhibitions, publications, symposia, collaborative projects, and other partnerships, our aim is to create an environment that encourages dialogue between scholars, music professionals, and enthusiasts on the mixtapes various functions in society.

Antigua’s Legal “Pirate Site” Authorized by the World Trade Organization

Last week we broke the news that the island nation Antigua and Barbuda wants to start a Government run “pirate” site.
During a meeting in Geneva today the World Trade organization (WTO) authorized Antigua’s request to suspend U.S. copyrights. The decision confirmed the preliminary authorization the Caribbean island received in 2007, and means that the local authorities can move forward with their plan to start a download portal which offers movies, music and software without compensating the American companies that make them.
Today, this plan came a step closer to reality when the Caribbean country received authorization from the WTO to suspend U.S. copyrights during a meeting in Geneva.
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Everything Tech Touches is devalued, Jobs are never coming back people!

Everything Tech Touches is devalued, Jobs are never coming back.

AP IMPACT: Recession, tech kill middle-class jobs By BERNARD CONDON and PAUL WISEMAN Wed, Jan 23, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over. And the situation is even worse than it appears.
Most of the jobs will never return, and millions more are likely to vanish as well, say experts who study the labor market. What’s more, these jobs aren’t just being lost to China and other developing countries, and they aren’t just factory work.
Increasingly, jobs are disappearing in the service sector, home to two-thirds of all workers. They’re being obliterated by technology.
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World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council (GAC) on the Future of the Internet.

Internet as Innovation Engine – WEF Future of the Internet Infographic

World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council (GAC) on the Future of the Internet.

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