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I remember when I was a kid my dad used to do this with me. We’d make a huge stack of pillows and blankets on my parent’s bed and then my dad (who is French) would count “Un, Deux, Trois!” before launching my small frame into full fight. I can’t remember a more exhilarating sensation [...]

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Songwriter Billy Bragg published an op-ed in the UK’s Guardian Paper to address piracy, it’s effect on music, and what to do about it, as it was discussed by the Featured Artists Coalition. Overall, not much new is discussed, but the sentence that starts it all off is a perfectly succinct caption illustrating a choice [...]

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In case you were wondering.

Via BoR.

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Kate just live-tweeted the following quote by Seth Godin, spoke at the first Digital Publishing Group event.
“People in the book business aren’t in the paper business.” – Seth Godin
What a succinct observation! Similarly, record labels and managers/artists aren’t in the plastic discs business. We are in the music business! Let that always be our starting [...]

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A few weeks ago a consortium of German web and media folks published the interesting and provocative Internet Manifesto on online journalism. One particular point stood out to me as relevant to the music industry:

12. Tradition Is No Business Model.
There is money to be earned with journalistic content on the internet. There are already many [...]

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Inspired by lessons learned from both Leo Babauta’s book “The Power Of Less”, and Seth Godin’s continued posts urging focus, I decided to further streamline this blog. The sole focus will be on my writing/analysis of music industry topics, and translating lessons learned from other industries in order to apply them to our own.
For those [...]

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Some Dutch folks just re-imagined books. This new format can be held up for reading with just one hand, useful while standing on the subway or reading in bed, and reduces the page-count of a book while maintaining readability. Brilliant. Check out a video demo, in Dutch, here.

When I see an age-old consumer product re-imagined, [...]

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Always nice to see they are networking and handing out cards lol. This was sent to me by Lisa who is tour managing Wakey!Wakey!’s current tour.

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Noah recently posted an interesting commentary on a FT article covering Vivendi’s reliance on subscriptions throughout their business. Towards the end he mentioned this side-note:
“Why I can’t subscribe to all my favorite label’s releases for the year?”
That’s an excellent question! Why not? I decided to explore this question further, rather than waiting around for others [...]

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Not like Kanye did last night, but like the Dead Kennedys did back in the 90’s.

Via

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