Invaders from Mars
“Why do we feel so politically powerless? Why is the world so obviously going to hell in a handbasket? Why can’t anyone fix it? Here’s my (admittedly whimsical) working hypothesis … ” —Author Charlie Stross
Music and Tech Recap - October 2010 Edition
gcn:
As the year winds down, there is, as always a lot of industry news you want to stay on top of. New mobile music apps and music services, updates to existing ones and more music industry debates, opinions, rumours and speculation to keep the mind fuelled. On the investment side, music+tech…
Another excellent synopsis from Gabriel Nijmeh.
Source: gcn
My guess is a properly modified BP executive could eat a gallon of oil an hour. Now at the rate the oil is flowing into the ocean we would need about 5,000 BP executives eating oil for eight hours a day for the next six years or 100 BP executives eating oil for the next 300 years. Now that is what I call job security…
Source: alexbogusky.posterous.com
Government Isn't the Problem, Private Enterprise Is: The Global Terrorism of Al Qaeda, BP and Goldman Sachs
Agree or disagree, this is a powerful, worthwhile read.
Source: 3quarksdaily.com
Non-Apple’s Mistake
A very interesting perspective on what the rest of the computing market has failed to do, and how in (not) doing so, it has handed Apple its current market position.
Source: loper-os.org
When the ecosystem stops rewarding complexity, it is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.
Clay Shirky, “The Collapse of Complex Business Models”
(via lonelysandwich)
Source: lonelysandwich
Pandora drives 44% of US internet radio royalties
This, despite constant attempts by record labels and music industry associations to bury them. Pandora’s CEO, Tim Westergren, is on a mission.
Source: musically.com
Penguin and the iPad
Strong, no-nonsense language from Penguin’s CEO John Makinson:
The iPad represents the first real opportunity to create a paid distribution model that will be attractive to consumers.We will be embedding audio, video and streaming in to everything we do.The definition of the book itself is up for grabs.Asked how he felt about Apple’s 30-percent cut:
This is better than the equivalent print agency model, in which publishers let retailers keep 50 percent.
Source: mrgan
10 Billion Songs Sold in Less Than Seven Years
iTunes Store launched in 2003, with 25 millions songs sold by year-end. By early 2006 the number was 1 billion. By mid-2008 the number was over 5 billion. 18 months later that number has now doubled. Astounding.
Source: digitaldaily.allthingsd.com
