Hypebot's Music 2.0 By The Numbers

Sometimes there's nothing like a nice compact list of lists. "Best-of" lists of lists are even better.

Trends for 2009: GeoData for fun and profit.

Sean Gorman first blipped the world's radar in 2003 when his "tedious and unimportant" graduate thesis for George Mason University caught the eye of the Federal government as a potential national security threat. Gorman had married public data about business locations …

Record Labels - Brand or Die

As an employee of a major label, I've had the label branding argument a few times.

My position is: Label branding doesn't matter to the consumer - until it does. Meaning - if you conduct yourself right, market well, understand your audiences and messaging, attend to the …

Ray Kurzweil - By Sheer Force of Will

Look at Bill Gates' face. He's clearly humbled in Ray's presence... as well he should be.

Ray Kurzweil is one of the great minds of our era - and may make breathroughs that could profoundly change our evolutionary biology. Appartenly a documentary is being made about …

Obama cares about your data structure

Yet another reason to tilt towards Obama... he's promising to wrest all governmental data into universally accepted formats. That's your data people. If all goes well, this could usher in a new era of accountability and clarity.

Jeffrey Veen has a great post about

Thoughts on Total Music

Eh... this feels like a half-baked solution to me.

Why rely so heavily on the hardware manufacturers? Isn't it better to just fully license on behalf of the consumer through a PRO-like entity that takes payments from the network operators? Seems to me by involving …

Did You Ever See a VC Cry?

"I'm afraid it will be too late", intones uber VC John Doerr. He's referring to correcting course in regards to green technologies and gobal warming. When Doerr speaks you should listen. As one of Silicon Valley's top venture capitalists, he's directed the funding of …

Internet Radio Royalty Rate - the FAQ

The Wunderkinden over at Digital Music News have posted an excellent (if pedantic) FAQ about the proposed royalty rate changes for streaming Internet radio. It gives you a pretty good idea how very complex this whole issue is. This debate is also a good trial run on how …

Nielsen's Tweaks: Time Spent Edges Out Visitation and Views

In their continuing pursuit of relevence, Nielsen has re-emphasized a key reporting metric from visits/views to actual user time spent on the site. Advertisers are getting itchy - they want more audience-oriented measurements. This speaks to just how hot online video …

Viddler Video Player

Viddler is a relative newcomer to the world of UGC video sharing - but they bring a unique twist. They allow viewers to supply time line based tagging to specific moments in the video content. Among other things it allows the content author to supply meaningful indexing …

back and forth

I've posted a new set of photos up on flickr and Picasa. The set was edited in iPhoto, then uploaded to both services using iPhoto Plug-ins. My hope was to do all naming, sequencing and tagging in iPhoto, then quickly upload via a plugin. But since iPhoto doesn't seem …

Trendwatching - Still Made Here

The Dutch marketing research company Trend Watching, has published their latest briefing titled (STILL) MADE HERE.

Say Anything

Did you happen to catch the piece in New York magazine ?

http://nymag.com/news/features/27341/

Say Anything: Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll.

The premise here is that kids who are coming of age in the …

Steven Criqui - Rest In Peace

I'm devistated this evening to report that my friend Steven Criqui died last month. Steven was a personal mentor to me and an inspiration to all those who met him. We was also a terrific artist. The L.A. Times published a brief obituary about Steven. Short, pleasant, …

Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip

"Thou Shalt Always Kill"

I know I know, it's a Dylan rip. But it's not really. If anything, it's an homage. The guy's good.. he's fresh. Don't be so jaded.