@ArethaFranklin @CliveDavis Fact Checking NY Daily News

Just a quick post to show we are paying attention. After the recent post based on a report in the NY Daily News I did a search of YouTube on Martina McBride. There are several new tracks but when I looked for Everlasting on Wikipedia it turns out to be produced by Don Was, not Dangermouse. Another report suggests that Dangermouse is working with U2.

Either way the situation now seems to be that the tracks with Babyface are complete and it is Andre 3000 who has the task to complete "A.S.A.P."

Meanwhile Everlasting sounds good, maybe Don Was has still got something to do with Great Diva Songs.

@ArethaFranklin @CliveDavis found news anyway but reply still welcome

Experiments with Twitter continue. I realise you may not get a reply but in theory you can ask anyone a question.

Recently I sent a tweet to both Aretha Franklin and Clive Davis. It struck me that there was no news about Great Diva Songs. This CD has been spoken of during most of last year and I thought was out sometime this summer.

Now I find an online report from the New York Daily News that answers my question. 

• So far she has recorded five of the 10 tracks with producer Babyface. Danger Mouse was supposed to oversee the others, but he had a prior commitment to produce an album for Martina McBride and had to drop out. So Franklin will work up the remaining tracks with Andre 3000 of Outkast. She hopes to finish speedily and get the album out “A.S.A.P.,” as she puts it.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/aretha-returns-new-york-feeling-article-1.1825997#ixzz34ia41JMq

That extra link just comes in automatically.

So I think I shall carry on Tweeting as remote interview. If only as a reminder or what to search on next.

Current problem is to find out more about Andre 3000. Have found a couple of tracks on YouTube but some words such as could not broadcast on FM. Suggestions welcome.

as is any other info on Great Diva Songs

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My colleague Jon Mahy would like to interview Stevie Wonder so this is a Twitter topic for now. My guess is that somebody will respond but maybe not in ways we expect

@wenotno @jonathanmahy

Trust, reuse, sound clips, radio

The Leuphana course on the psychology of negotiating a shared commons is going ok except that the group discussion is not really taking off. This may be my fault for getting into YouTube tech too quickly. But it is only at the where is the menu option level. and Creative Commons is a case in point. I am beginning to realise the ideas around it have got lost somehow.  Maybe too much advertising to keep the concept in mind so although there is some high level support for the legal theory it is no longer possible to communicate.

Anyway it struck me that as much of the content for the course is on YouTube I could try to interest some people I meet face to face sometimes. Next week I will see Jon and JD as part of the Wild Show and We Don't Know. Also we plan a visit to Seale Hayne to talk to Access All Aerials. So this could end up as some form of radio or sound clip. Some of the Leuphana videos have the Remix button so we might end up with a new edit if we find anything to say worth repeating.

Some links

So the second assignment is where we are round about now. Radio is full of illusion. There appears to be a commons of back catalogue available for FM but this depends on a flow of funds for the rights. Social media is full of ambiguity. I once thought it was ok to load a cover version to YouTube if the performer was ok with it but this may not be the case. On the Wild Show we think we can use a clip from Access All Aerials and they may include the Wild Show on their 24 hour stream. So this should be ok. Still worth a discussion every so often to check what is possible.

Later , round about the first week of August, I will leave Exeter heading east not west. Sidmouth Folk Week is partly in the open air or the pubs if raining. Many tunes from long ago so probably out of copyright. I assume that loading anything to YouTube is ok. But notice this is possibly with people I have never met before. Usually ok but I hit trouble when I get back to Exeter.

If there was a clear guide on how to negotiate a sense of commons it might make life a lot easier.

K-PRINT WEEK can it be reported from the UK? ( #ohmynews )

Another story for OhmyNews or based on previously. just to show how far out of time I am. maybe it is the start of the summer, I will be back on real time by September or so.

I did several trade show reports for OhMyNews International, including IPEX and drupa. Usually I looked at how things were changing with better broadband, even if Korea on another level. This year IPEX and Cross Media were a major puzzle. I think this will have been the cross Media IPEX even though it was also the occasion when Cross Media was closed down. Maybe more on this below, a bit off topic.

As far as I can tell from the website there is not yet a list of the companies attending the shows that are part of K-Print Week, 27-30 August at Kintex, Goyang, Korea. There are four shows, or sections of the main two halls - packaging, digital, labels and the original one though this is not most of the space. As we found at ExCel floor plans can change so it will be interesting to see where the demand is for space should this change over the next few weeks.

Some think that drupa is now the major global show because Heidelberg and other major companies have decided not to book much space anywhere else. IPEX was about half the space as previously but the digital aspect was strong. There were several companies from Japan. Some speculate that this may be because of politeness, Japanese find it hard to cancel. I'm not sure about this, the products were interesting and the attendance numbers don't show the potential sites over time. Komori contributed to the Konica Minolta offer and also sponsored an ecology zone.

So I will be just as interested in which companies are not part of K-Print Week as those that are there. There will be enough info online to get an impression. Ohmynews in Korean could be one source as I find translation often works out.

Now back to Cross Media. It was never clear if the show was aimed at printers or the people they used to supply. When in Islington there was an interest in marketing and publishing but the show co-located with IPEX was concentrated on production. Maybe because of everything else going on few people from the classic print industry registered so the allocated area kept reducing. Although something similar will be part of the next IPEX the idea of a regular Cross Media show has been cancelled.

Meanwhile I keep coming across reference to the "Internet of Things" . Not sure what the internet was before, maybe the "Internet of Content". So the stands at IPEX about 3D printing and electronic circuits on fabrics were part of a major break.

Comment and links welcome, inside K-Print or somewhere near.

OhmyNews again, looking back to the Keogh/O'Connor trial

I am starting to look back on the stories I did for OhmyNews. Just watched an interview with Tony Blair on the BBC. Since found his essay online.  Thing that strikes me is that he writes about "regime change" as if this was always the main aim.

Andrew Marr asked no questions about the Chilcot report or whether we can expect publication anytime soon. So I'm going back to links that may have got lost and seem to me to be relevant.

Starting with this on the continuing trial. Includes

In November 2005 the Daily Mirror, a mass circulation newspaper in the U.K., reported that the memo showed Bush wanted to bomb the offices of Al Jazeera in Qatar. The same report quoted Peter Kilfoyle MP as saying: "It's frightening to think that such a powerful man as Bush can propose such cavalier actions. I hope the prime minister insists this memo be published. It gives an insight into the mindset of those who were the architects of war."

In the absence of the Chilcot report there is reasonable speculation about what was said between Tony Blair and George Bush. Many believe the Daily Mirror report had some basis. 

Another current story in the UK media is that a jury trial is being held in secret. As reported in the Daily Telegraph "the majority of a major terrorism trial will be heard in secret" , though there has been some change from a previous approach.

In the House of Commons, Dominic Raab, the Tory MP, said the ruling “still allows the state to hand-pick journalists to report on the case”.

He added: “Given what is at stake in terms of principles of open justice and democracy, can we have a statement or debate in the near future?"

It surprises me that as far as I know there has been no reference to the Keogh / O'Connor trial in the reporting of this case or exploring the background. They were charged under the Official Secrets Act for the leaking of the memo that was reported by the Daily Mirror. 

As reported in the Guardian

Sir Nigel Sheinwald, the prime minister's leading foreign policy adviser,  who said his advice to Mr Blair covered the "waterfront" of foreign, defence and security issues, was persistently questioned about whether documents were marked secret simply to cover up political embarrassment, but denied it.

Rex Tedd QC, defending Keogh,said: "The real position, I suggest, is that central to any principle of confidentiality is protecting any American leader from public embarrassment by the disclosure of what is said."

Unfortunately there is no longer an English language version of OhmyNews but the archive is still available and well worth checking out as some things in the UK seem to get lost in the media mix.