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The second day of testing at Valencia for the Aspar and Speed Master teams saw all three Aprilia-mounted riders improve their times significantly, despite conditions being much worse. Temperatures dropped significantly from yesterday, and a cold wind picked up making the track too cold to ride during the morning, the riders only taking to the track at noon. Randy de Puniet was fastest once again, ahead of his Aspar teammate Aleix Espargaro and Speed Master's Mattia Pasini, but both newcomers closed the gap significantly to the French MotoGP veteran, Espargaro getting to within seven tenths of De Puniet, Pasini wthin a second and a half.
De Puniet dived under the 1'35 barrier, posting a time of 1'34.9 and closing in on the time he set on the Ducati GP11 at the Valencia race event last November. Espargaro came close to matching De Puniet's time from yesterday, while Pasini matched the Spaniard's time from Monday. The progress was mainly down to the work being done on electronics, as both the Aspar and the Speed Master team work to match the Aprilia's electronics package to the Bridgestone tires. All three riders hailed the potential the Aprilia showed, despite the cold conditions.
[Audio Download] Lomax Folk Recordings Go Digital
Anyone with an abiding interest in American music will have heard of Alan Lomax. His travels around the U.S. and through other countries recording "folk music" was almost single-handedly responsible for how we think about Americana and world music both. But only a small amount of his recordings were available online, with few available for download. The Association for Cultural Equity is changing that.
His archives include "5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of film, 3,000 videotapes, 5,000 photographs and piles of manuscripts," according to the New York Times. By the end of February, 17,000 tracks will be available for free download. But today, a collection of 16 field recordings is being released for free download to celebrate what would have been Lomax's 97th birthday.
You can play the offerings on a featured player or download them for free.
Under the Global Jukebox label, Cultural Equity will continue to release more complete tracks and collections for free download.
Tracks are already available on the site for listening, but most are not downloadable, aside from the birthday sampler. Plans are also in the works to release CDs of some of these collections.
Global Jukebox gets its name from Lomax's recording mission, to assemble a global jukebox that allows listeners to understand what we have in common as a species through our musical undertakings, as well as understanding the different solutions we've come up with musically to adapt to our surroundings and answer the big questions of human life.
Lomax began recording on bulky tape machines around the South in the Thirties, visiting locally famous, but nationally unknown, musicians, like Muddy Waters, Sonny Terry, Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly, to capture the unique vocabulary of American music. He continued his recordings, as well as lectures and writing, until his death in 2002. For a large chunk of his life he was dogged by the F.B.I., who interpreted his devotion to cultural equity as an element of the Communist threat.
Photo of Alan Lomax recording in Dominica, 1962 by Antoinette Marchand from ACE.
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In celebration of Community Manager Appreciation Day, I defined the characteristics of a Community Manager. This and more in today's Daily Wrap.
Sometimes it's difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the ReadWriteWeb Community, including a link to some of the most popular discussions in our offsite communities on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ as well.
Community Manager Appreciation Day 2012
Every 4th Monday in January is Community Manager Appreciation Day. In commemoration of the yearly event started by Jeremiah Owyang in 2010, I listed a few of my favorite characteristics of a Community Manager. Among them a love for analytics, a tendency to smile when they type and a strong desire to do what is right, even if it's not what is popular.
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trishnet -- "I couldn't agree more that we all define the community manager role differently. It is one of the reasons it's so hard to hire for the role. Any perspective on questions to ask a community manager to help identify a great one when hiring?
Robyn Tippins -- "Real world scenarios. Go through real events that have happened to your company and ask how they would have responded. Feel them out to see if they think they are 'above' customer support. Do they have common sense?The training and tools can be learned, but you can't teach someone empathy, compassion, patience, the desire to do the right thing at all costs, etc. Also, make sure they have a healthy ego (not too big, not too small). They'll need that to survive!"
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