This story is a primer on the new realities of the music business. Will the RIAA please read and take note.
What does the Eliot Spitzer scandal tell us about online music sales? Possibly that social network effects that have nothing to do with hardware or music stores will determine the successful business models. In other words, […]
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The results may not be up to Gene Krupa’s quality standards, but this is a really clever use of the Nintendo Wii game machine’s interface. It will be interesting to see what direction this technology takes next.
The Wii Drum Kit is another great example of a tangible user interface made possible with the Wiimote. […]
You may have thought that your ears were going bad on you, but you were probably wrong. Even though we are in the age of MP3s, audio recording’s sound quality seems to be worse than ever. That is because, in most cases, it really is worse. As someone who has amassed a five-foot rack […]
I have been angry with the music industry for many reasons for many years. The latest reason is their utter stupidity when dealing with the issue of a new disribution medium. The shift to digital from the more easily controllable analog stuff was just too much for them to handle and they went totally berserk. […]
According to the New York Times, who quoted figures released Thursday, album sales in the United States "plunged" 9.5 percent last year from 2006. The industry is describing it as a weak year. But, don’t feel too sorry for the RIAA yet.
The music industry seems to be too busy suing single mothers and teenagers and […]
This may prove to be my fifteen minutes of fame. Lifehacker featured my personal Winamp tweaks today in their Media Player Show and Tell.
Mine is the one on the right in the top row of the gallery. Click on the image for a description.
This is the latest in the continuing saga of the RIAA’s Draconian marketing campaign.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) today sent another new wave of 411 threatening letters to 19 universities nationwide.
The RIAA sent letters to these schools schools:
Drexel University (17 letters)
Indiana University (23)
Northern Illinois University (25)
Occidental College (19)
State University of New York at Morrisville (18)
Texas Christian […]
Is this the beginning of the end for YouTube?
Several of the world’s leading Internet and media companies today announced their joint support for a set of copyright guidelines for user-generated content designed to protect the intellectual property of content owners.
According to the companies, the principles offer a comprehensive set of guidelines to help user-generated content (UGC) services […]
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If you are like me, you need something to perk you up on Mondays. This video should do it. It features one of the best blues harp players in captivity. Annie Raines wails in a blues boogie take on Magic Sam’s “Lookin’ Good.”
Thanks to Tony Steidler-Dennison over at the Roadhouse podcast for both this link and […]
An Atlanta TV station reports that an man’s old style Apple iPod Nano got hot enough to burst into flames in his pocket for about fifteen seconds. “So I look down and I see flames coming up to my chest,” said Danny Williams. He believes that a piece of shiny paper shielded him from being […]
