If you haven't heard, Paul Davis and friends have just released the second version of Ardour - a free open-source multitrack recorder for Linux and now for OSX. The intro on the site gives a good summary: "Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and hardware control...

Jessica Dolcourt posted a great article on the One Laptop Per Child initiative in Nigeria on CNET news. We are finally seeing the beginning of the first deployments of the laptop. I think we're going to be impressed with what these young children do with this technology. Photos and Video of the 3-day event also available. Nice overview of the...

The Linux Audio Conference is in full swing until March 25th in Berlin. If you can't make it, you can view the streams during the program. As in previous years, the streams will be archived and made available after the conference.  There are also several IRC channels devoted to the conference (copied from their page) #lac2007 for general chitchat about...

I have created a variety of views for the Audio sessions for this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco (much faster than waiting for GDC's site). Even if you are not a composer or sound designer, there are plenty of sessions worth checking out: All Audio Sessions in chronological orderLectures Mobile Audio SessionsPanels Roundtables Sponsored SessionsIAsig recommended sessions (more...

I'm sure you've heard the news that Microsoft must pay $1.5B as the result of a lawsuit brought by Alcatel-Lucent. You can read about it, but it sure is a good lesson. You better do your homework before licensing patents. I encourage everyone to look into the use of Vorbis Ogg format. First, it sounds very good. And it's patent...

Sophie, a project to create multimedia books, is now available in Alpha release. Based on Squeak, Sophie is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Sophie is not a tool to render traditional paper books to read on your PC. The Sophie project is aimed to go beyond print and utilize the interactive capabilities...

Bert Freudenberg found a great video on the One Laptop Per Child initiative. A very informative video created by eSchool news showing the strengths of the laptop and footage of the founder and director Nicholas Negroponte. Bert has more about OLPC on his blog. Thanks Bert! ---- If you haven't already, check out TamTam's development site: a music application on...

Building on Frederic Vavrille's Liveplasm site (a visual search engine he created 3 years ago), Mr. Vavrille has created a visually-entertaining web radio where listeners select music from a mood-energy matrix or from a genre selection box. Manuel Lima states that Mr. Vavrille combined sound from Pandora and Last.FM with Liveplasm to create a dynamic mind-map of related music....

Good article in today's NY Times about the One Laptop Per Child initiative. "Mary Lou Jepsen, the chief technologist for the project, likes to refer to the insight that transformed the machine from utopian dream to working prototype as "a really wacky idea."" Check it out! ---- BTW, you don't need the OLPC laptop to check out one of the...

There is no shortage of opinions about the fate of television - be it professionally created or user generated content (UGC.) Views range from the misguided "UGC has changed TV forever! Power to the People!" — to the pensive "TV ain't what it used to be... where's Milton Berle?... I want my MTV!" To say that the future lies...