Bono’s Red under fire for emphasizing the bottom line (Prefix)
MS: Though the donation margin for Red is less than other charities, what critics are missing is that it isn’t really a charity. People who give to nonprofit organizations aren’t suddenly going to quit and do their giving by buying a cell phone. The purpose of Red is to reach the multitude of people who give nothing to charity and give others an opportunity to have a little less guilt about that new iPod. Even though its margin of giving is less than that of other charities, Red has already pledged more to fight AIDS than the nations of Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, and Switzerland.
Rob Sheffield writes the book of mixtape love (San Francisco Guardian)
MS: How's this for a universal truth: if you've ever given a good goddamn about music and you've ever been touched by someone in your life (or wanted to be touched, as the case may be), you've surely sat yourself down and made a mixtape to put all of those feelings into 90 minutes or less. It's a rite of passage for any music freak who dares to live beyond the safe confines of his or her headphones; many of us revisit that breathless, nerve-racked experience over and over again, freezing our latest crushes in little plastic time capsules, hoping they'll build to something bigger. The messenger may have changed — we've gone from tape to disc and now maybe to the playlist — but the message remains the same: "I like you. Do you like me?"
House approves MPAA-backed college antipiracy rules (CNET)
MS: "Now that the data produced by the MPAA, the lead advocate for this provision, shows that illegal file-sharing by students using university servers is a very small part of the larger file-sharing issue, this provision is the moral equivalent of using a bazooka to kill a fly," said Barry Toiv, a spokesman for the Association of American Universities.
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