With a tip of the hat to both the holidays and a rough economy, music and media futurist Gerd Leonhard has assembled a round-up of some of his best content and is giving it away for free.
- Free PDF with Gerd's “Best of 2008 Blog Posts & Essays" (66 pages, US letter size, 10MB)
- Free PDF with his 2007 “Music 2.0 / More on The Future of Music" book (8MB)
- iPhone versions of Music 2.0 and “Best of 2008" (using the Instapaper iPhone app)
- 28 free slideshows on the future of media, content, advertising, telecom, marketing, copyright. (via Slideshare)
- Many other PDFs, including all of the 2007 End of Control preview chapters
- 29 videos on the same topics (stream or download via iTunes), on Blip.TV, streaming-only via Youtube
- The entire Futuretalks DVD (late 2007), with fellow futurist Glen Hiemstra moderated by Ralph Simon, 222 minutes, for download or streaming, via my Drop.io sharing account (please use the guest password: future), for more details and free audio podcast versions of the DVD please go to IT/Media Conversations / Futuretalks.com
- Approx. 500 photos and illustrations via his Flickr page
- More ephemeral stuff: his Media Futurist blog RSS feed, Twitter updates RSS feed
