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MoMA exhibit explores Miro's wild side

If a painter refuses to paint, is he still a painter? If an artist says that a painting isn't a painting, what is it? What does it take to make a painting not a painting?

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Miro 2.0 Gets Streaming Support, New Look
Source: Lifehacker

Miro, the open-source player that's like a TiVo for internet video, has hit its 2.0 release, boosting the play-anything tool's performance and adding some neat features, like streaming video from Hulu and other sites.

MirĂ³, Serial Murderer of Artistic Conventions
Source: The New York Times

Amputate tradition, torture the past, terrorize the present. The impulse to destroy was part of what made early Modern art the guerrilla movement it was.

The internet is breaking

The featured article of Thursday May 18 2006's Wall Street Journal Online, "The Web's Worst New Idea", calls into question the validity of the debate about Net Neutrality.

TV on Your PC: Hulu, Joost and Miro Reviewed
Source: Gizmodo

The Writers Guild strike already stripped us of our Daily Show and Colbert Report, and now it may take away Heroes and House as well.

Miro 1.0 is Here
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I am incredibly excited to announce the launch of Miro 1.0.

Entrepreneur Aims to Overthrow TV, Not Get Rich
Source: Wired News

Most software entrepreneurs' ambition is to sell out for a huge wad of cash, or maybe go public for an even bigger pile. Not so Nicholas Reville: He wants to overthrow the television industry, and he doesn't care if he gets rich.

Miro Internet TV Video Player Public Preview 1 (0.9.8)
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Formerly known as 'Democracy Player', this new name, logo, and updated version of the software represents the next evolution of the project. We are hoping to reach even more people and build the open video movement. The software is more polished and stable than ever.

Democracy Player 0.9.6 Released - Last version ever! (before name change)
Source: getdemocracy.com

We have just released version 0.9.6 of Democracy Player. It is a *big* update, with lots of new features, bug fixes, and improvements. It's also the last version ever of Democracy Player. The next release from us will be under our new name, Miro.

Mozilla contributes funding to Democracy Player
Source: Ars Technica

Mozilla's grants and donations program leader Seth Bindernagel writes in a blog entry that the Mozilla board has decided to give a grant of $100,000 to the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF), the organization behind the open-source Democracy Player (soon to be called Miro) st …

Mozilla Invests in Democracy TV
Source: Mashable!

Democracy is my favorite video aggregator. I use it for watching all my vodcasts. Even if it is a Gnome app (and I am a KDE user).

Marbella, Spain
Source: Expatica

The latest case unfolded with a huge police raid on city hall and other municipal agencies, designed to break up a massive and elaborate local government network engaged in embezzling EUR 2.4 billion in public funds.

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