137 Stories by Chris Castig
The Sound of Songwriting: With James Vincent McMorrow (SXSW Edition)
James Vincent McMorrow’s debut album “Early in the Morning” was entirely self-recorded during a period...
We tend to speak of our lives in generalities, while in our mind, when we sit alone and reflect on the past, we tend...
Much like a lyrical Woody Allen, Tim Kasher doesn’t hide behind his neurosis, he celebrates it. Mature enough to recognize his own self-limitations as...
“Songwriting? That’s something that I don’t really know how to do.” Courtney Taylor felt that I ought to know this before we even began...
This isn’t the typical argument that Expression Engine should be GNU and “free” because it is too expensive, rather my argument focuses on the...
On December 4, the Institute of Network Culture organized the Urban Screens conference at Trouw in Amsterdam. The conference celebrated the launch of The...
The term Googlization, according to Siva Vaidhyanathan, is the process of being processed, rendered, and represented by Google. Vaidhyanathan’s upcoming book The Googlization of...
The World Wide Web and Social Development Symposium at the VU University Amsterdam welcomed a variety of prominent speakers to discuss the problem: How...
The final version of my MA Thesis is ready! Copy What Can’t Be Sold (and Sell What Can’t Be Copied): What Musicians Have Learned...
This interview was published on The University of Amsterdam’s New Media blog in 2009. It is part of a collection of interviews on how the Internet...