Archive for the "Music" category

Content Explosion and Re-Aggregation

There have been two huge enablers in my online publishing habits. FriendFeed and my BlackJack 2.

I’ve always had a variety of desktop *publishing tools* but my BlackJack has enabled me to create content on the go, and FriendFeed pulls all that content together. While Louis Gray is the real maven on FriendFeed and all […]

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The Real Problem with the Media Business

I saw the other day that Radiohead is now selling their album on iTunes, after ’selling’ it from their own site for what ever price the fan wanted to pay, even $0.00. I don’t know if we’ll ever know how much they will have made on this new album, but I have to believe […]

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The Music Industry is Ripe for Disruption

I’ve picked on journalism enough in this blog that I thought I would spread the love to another dino-media; the music industry and their distribution model (and specifically the RIAA).
The tricky thing about music distribution services is gaining the install base. You have to develop a network and gain enough users, which is expensive. […]

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