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		<title>Registration removed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 17:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art Song Central has been the target of multiple hacking and spam attacks this year, including a recent flood of user registrations by a single spammer. (This spammer was dedicated enough to hire a person or system to defeat the Captcha verification system, and slowed the server to a crawl with spam attacks.) For the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixed Donation Button</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some may have noticed, there&#8217;s a donation button near the bottom of the sidebar&#8230; A few brave souls have used it over the last few years to contribute to the cost of hosting this site. To all who did, THANK YOU! For some reason, though, I had set a fixed donation amount, and I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takedown notice (updated)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: I sent a lengthy reply to the complainant, and got a quick and polite response, including the following statement: &#8230;if the version that you are posting has been published in the US, you are perfectly in your right to post it. That does not encompass all legitimate uses for other songs, but it does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French Operas from University of Ottowa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have time to properly catalog them here at the moment, but a whole bunch of French opera scores from the University of Ottowa and University of Toronto have recently been added to the Internet Archive. There are a few famous ones, though many are rather obscure. This link should take you to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ad Rates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art Song Central will shortly begin accepting a limited number of advertisements, to defray the costs of maintaining and improving the site. The link below is a pdf with the current rates for advertising: Ad Rates Interested advertisers should contact David via the ASC contact form.]]></description>
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		<title>ASC hacked</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sad to report that Art Song Central has been hacked. I&#8217;m not yet sure the extent of the damage, but I have removed the spam that was placed in the footer of each page. I am taking the following rather extreme measures at the moment: I have added a captcha system for registering or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adding value to the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I became involved relatively early in the digital public domain preservation movement, though many went far before me&#8230; One leader in the field is Michael Hart, who has been the driving force behind Project Gutenberg since it started in the 1970&#8242;s. A man with many idiosyncrasies, Hart has frequently used some mental gymnastics to provide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IPA files for the entire collection!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have finished transcribing (with the help of IPANow software) every song from the song index into IPA (except for English and Spanish, which IPANow does not handle.) I have saved a separate PDF file for the text and transcription of each song. It will take some time to add links to each individual song [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome back to school with more IPA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stats haven&#8217;t jumped yet, and they usually double at the start of a college semester, but I expect most students will be back to school over the next two weeks. Classes have already commenced at JMU. For those of you who look for new posts, there hasn&#8217;t been much to see lately, but there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Kindle DX for sheet music</title>
		<link>http://artsongcentral.com/2009/amazon-kindle-dx-for-sheet-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 04:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon has announced its new Kindle DX ebook reader with a larger screen size and I&#8217;m intrigued to see if it will be useful to view sheet music as it is generally presented on Art Song Central. Hypothetically, it ought to be small, but legible. (The screen is, after all approximately the size of an [...]]]></description>
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