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"Culture is More Important Than Copyright."
Last week, TechDirt highlighted this great quote from comic book writer Mark Waid and I hadn't gotten a chance to post about it till now. Waid recently spoke at the Harvey Awards and gave a semi-controversial talk about copyright, the public domain and learning to embrace file sharing. Wanting to further clarify his points and clear ...
Interview: Jared Moya, Chief Editor of Zeropaid PT. 1
Recently, I spoke with Jared Moya, who describes himself not as a tech geek," but rather as an avid fan of the digital revolution and what it's meant for the instant communication of thoughts, information, and culture unencumbered by longtime geographic restraints." He is currently the Chief Editor of ZeroPaid.com. From your perspective, how would you ...
When Blank Media Costs Less Than Your Album
Chances are, blank media costs less than your album. What now? Rarely, do I get a chance to listen to an album all the way through. Writing requires different type of background ambiance; almost familiar, yet not too overwhelming. Therefore, most of the time, when I write, I either listen to streams or non-disruptive titles. Some ...
5 Traits That Ping Might Reveal About Your Friends
(That You Didn't Want To Know) With Apple's big announcement last week that iTunes will now be integrated with a social networkbased around music discovery called Ping, its worth reflecting on why, as cool as it sounds, that it may not be the best thing that ever happened to your life. To review, Ping is like ...
How to Launch a Music Startup: Market Size
This post is part of the How To Launch a Music Startup series by Brenden Mulligan, which focuses on building a company that creates online products for musicians. Mulligan founded ArtistData, which was recently acquired by Sonicbids, and can be found on Twitter at @bmull. As mentioned in the previous post, I'm going to start out ...
What Physics Can Teach Musicians About Marketing
(UPDATE) In this TED talk, Dan Colbey, appointed director of marketing at Google for central and northern Europe, instructs us, and musicians included, what physics can teach us about marketing. His first point highlights the connection between Newton's Law and branding. To which he explains that, The more massive a brand, the more baggage it has, ...
What Happened at Music Hack Day London
This post is from Hilke Ros (@hilkeros)at Motion Music Manager. Last Saturday, the 8th Music Hack Day kicked off in London. Music Hack Day is a gathering of software developers and coders working on music related projects. Since July 2009 all the smartest minds in music technology come together to hack on small projects that might ...
"The People Who Invented the Paradigm and Were Trusted to Run It Let It Run Afoul. We Have to Fix It"."
"I don't want to hear some guy chomping on a cigar in Beverly Hills telling me it's all gone pear-shaped. The people who invented the paradigm and were trusted to run it let it run afoul. We have to fix it...There are going to be far fewer skyscrapers in the music business and many, many more ...
Apple's Ping Grabs 1 Million Users in 48 Hours
iTune's new social network Ping is drawing a lot of criticism for its lack of connectivity to other networks (Facebook shut Ping out) and a profile system that limits access for many indie artists. Still, less than 48 hours since its launch on Wednesday, more than one million users had joined Ping, according to Apple. One-third ...
Report: Expect Google Music by Christmas
According to multiple sources, Google is in final stage talks with labels to open a download store and a cloud based song locker that would allow mobile users to play songs wherever they are. Google hopes to open its new music service before Christmas. Some label executives believe that Google Music will become the first real ...


