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Highnote launches a collaboration platform for musicians and podcasters offering voice notes, polls and more

TechCrunch

Highnote launched to the public today, allowing musicians, podcasters, and other creators to collaborate on audio files by recording voice notes directly over a track, making timestamped reactions, and creating polls to get opinions. He also recommends Highnote for music students who want to ask their teacher how to play a chord better.

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A Silicon Valley school is using virtual escape rooms to evaluate prospective students

The Verge

With things like open houses, campus tours, and in-person interviews off the table, applicants have fewer chances to experience their prospective schools — and admissions offices have fewer chances to meet their prospective students. Harker let me go through the game myself, alongside a friend of mine who’s an experienced escape room artist.

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The best alternatives to Spotify for listening to music

The Verge

As this is being written, we are still in the midst of the Spotify controversy , during which artists are abandoning the audio service in protest of that company’s contract with podcaster Joe Rogan. If you’re in college, the Student plan ($4.99 / month) offers the same features as the Individual plan. Shutterstock / Kaspars Grinvalds.

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K-pop’s fandom platforms are changing what it means to be an idol

The Verge

Before the rise of social media accounts and company-run platforms, most fans for Korean artists basically were locked into direct engagement through fancafes — a kind of digital fan club that often required fans to prove their knowledge of a particular artist before gaining access to artists.

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Favianna Rodriguez: Political Digital Artist and Printmaker

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I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public.

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Nonprofit Leaders: How Does Your Nonprofit Measure Success?

Blue Avocado

Live audiences, musicians, composers, students, funders, the community?) We rely heavily on anecdotal evidence and testimonials to learn what students and their teachers take away from our programs. We often get beautiful drawings from students after the program that illustrate the deep, meaningful connections that kids are making.

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Thoughts on The Social Network (and Why We Need to Pay Attention)

NTEN

The movie also includes a mostly true scene featuring Zuckerberg’s anger-fueled all-night coding and hacking session at Harvard which produced Facemash , a site allowing viewers to vote on the attractiveness of female students which yielded 22,000 votes in one day, demonstrating the incredible coding abilities of then 20-year-old Zuckerberg.