Technology and the Arts 2.0: Series 2, Episode 4 – 08.27.2013

In this installment of Technology and the Arts with Brian Kelley and John LeMasney…

John talks about:

• A number of upcoming projects
• LibraryLinkNJ
• Teaching classes at Rider University
• Doodle.com/lemasney
• Arts, Culture, Technology & Community NJ Meetups at ArtWorks Trenton
• The fact that his Chromecast has finally shipped
• 12-year-old Lillian Powers…Vine superstar (Gawker | Vinebox)

Brian talks about:

• An update on his friend, singer-songwriter Christian Beach‘s cover of Yoko Ono’s “Silver Horse”—on which Brian played accordion—that will be appearing on an Main Man Records tribute album due this fall
• A planned “arts hub” featuring lofts, studios, classroom space, business and training areas, and retail space in an abandoned mill from the 1890s at the Hamilton/Trenton border in Mercer County, NJ

Together, John and Brian discussed:

• Thoughts on the NSA, PRISM and the “quick death of privacy” in the United States
• Google’s reported efforts to acquire the rights to the NFL’s Sunday Ticket package, currently exclusive to DirectTV, and bring the action to YouTube
• Kevin Spacey’s impassioned defense of the Netflix business model during his is address at the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival
• The lack of great design apps in the cloud…aside from Adobe.
• AllCast app developer’s accusations that Google is disabling unsupported use of Chromecast via firmware updates
• Facebook’s new shared photo albums, which are rolling out slowly now
• The controversy over a plans to install a 9/11 memorial in Princeton Battlefield State Park, the site of a pivotal Revolutionary War battle
• NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia and the planned Sept. 6 launch of the LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) mission to the moon—a launch that could be visible to most of the mid-Atlantic and northeastern United States.
• Iowa City Library Local Music Project—a unique licensing scheme allowing Iowa City Library patrons to download and keep music by local artists