April 2011
31 posts
“It’s nice to see a bunch of entitled, rich, white people reinforcing...”
– Hannah on the Royal Wedding
“… there are between 380 to 500 newly recorded releases being distributed...”
– Excellent Q&A with TuneCore’s Jeff Price. He rocks.
“While a huge believer in the risk-taking and agility of Silicon Valley venture...”
– Joi Ito, on joining the excellent MIT Media Lab.
Great to see Joi bring this up. This has long frustrated me as well - to think about the things and services we’d have if a number of acquired companies (whose products have become stale with time) remained focused, opens up the world of...
“It’s funny, our EVP of Music knows next to nothing about pop culture, so...”
– I suppose it IS funny if you are running a music/web company, though in a different way. (from an otherwise wholesome email thread)
Choosing between empowering all (and accepting all parts of the quality curve) or curating, and empowering just some (but hugely increasing quality) makes lots of food for thought.
In which, entitled users of free service (Spotify)... →
The comments are sad. (via Z)
Album Premieres on The Hype Machine →
We’ve been doing lots of these album pre-release premieres with our friends at SoundCloud and a diverse group of labels, in the past few months. Read about how it works.
We are running the new Guillemots record, Walk the River on the site this week, check it out!
“I speak to people in the business world and the technology world, but I...”
– While it is hard to tell if this was taken out of context, Rob Kalin is still, totally the man.
“You can either see founding a company as something you’re doing because you want...”
– Wil Shipley: Success, and Farming vs. Mining (via marco)
“Following several years of independent investigation …, the report...”
– Canadian-backed report says music, movie, and software piracy is a market failure, not a legal one, by Michael Geist [Get Report]
Pandora's S-1 Form →
This is a must-read for anyone thinking or working in the Internet music space. Form S-1 is one of the documents a company must submit before its IPO. This explains most of the industry-specific issues facing Pandora (and Internet webcasters as a whole) in a frank and clear manner.
Good Instapaper material for the geeky. (via Scott)
WatchMore awesome stuff from m ss ng p ces, an interestingly stylized video following along an evening with Matthew Dear.
“And yes, every time I talk to a Valley person about this they go on about how...”
– rickwebb’s tumblrmajig: On The Bubble
Most of the ‘intelligence’ data for the music industry sits in a similar bucket. It’s worth something, just not a lot.
rickwebb's tumblrmajig: On The Bubble →
rickwebb:
Okay, a few more thoughts on this Chris Dixon article and whether it’s a bubble, since going and reading the article, I am surprised to see Dixon arguing that not only is it a safer bubble (private investors, discussed in my last entry) but that perhaps it’s not a bubble at all.
That, to me,…