June 2010
34 posts
What companies have reinvented themselves?
Large record labels get a bad rap for refusing to change, embrace the new revenue contraints of recorded music, the Internet, etc.
Over coffee with Erik, we remarked that they are not alone - few companies in any industry have been able to reorganize and reinvent themselves in the face of a gradual but certain decline. In this context, everything is much less dramatic.
Do you know any?
May 2010
25 posts
Julian Assange is an incredible man →
The New Yorker profiles Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks
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“Our sales have increased twenty percent year on year,” Stephen said, “We make...”
– Stephen Godfroy of Rough Trade Records
Are Physical Music Sales Dead? No, Says UKYME Stephen Godfroy
(via david-noel, Zoya)
Stephen works on one of the most intense, well-thought out and executed record shops I’ve ever visited. Both the Notting Hill and the Brick Lane locations are...
750 Words →
Just found the new excellent Buster Benson site via Michael. There is so much forward-thinking, inspiring stuff going on there, I have to digest to write more about it. This site is from a very positive future.
For now, simply have a look: 750 Words.
“By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you create anything, or just...”
– Steve Jobs to Valleywag’s Ryan Tate in a hugely fantastic and hopefully real email thread.
This question sums up most of current tech press on the web.
“I could really do without any more web music startups based on the idea of...”
– @aaronlammer (via muxtape)
Optimization by Proxy: SEO, Prestigious Schools →
So this is actually what Chris Weingarten was talking about. Put more academically. Also this, and this. Good to know many people are thinking about this.
“… distraction is nothing new. Over a century ago, philosopher Friedrich...”
– Nietzsche, the man, as usual. This is from The Distraction Society, in the BBC News Magazine
you know shit's real when it makes it to the xkcd... →
XKCD readers discuss Chris W.’s speech (see earlier posts)
(via zoya)
