Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Its not online or offline, it’s blended reality

Thursday, January 14th, 2010 We acknowledge that digital communication tools, fixed broadband, mobile, convergence, open source, cheap production tools have changed our world. And we have shown that we are reluctantly accepting that by using the word digital ever more frequently. Digital natives vs. digital ...

Mobile futures

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 I was asked whether I would like to make a few predictions around mobile, networks, commerce and culture by Rudy de Waele. I joined a very interesting collective to share my views and I was fascinated by what everyone of ...

Music + emotion + context + discovery = networked economics

Friday, October 30th, 2009 The interest in both the prospect of Beatles downloads and the big sales of their re-released CDs highlights an increasingly important back-catalogue business within the embattled music industry. Struggling to earn money on new artists, record labels are mining their ...

Networked music economics and the cloud

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 From Wired Magazine 5 music services that place their economic models in the cloud 5 Sites That Tap the Music in the Cloud Fizy This Turkish site compiles audio from around the Net into a database from which you can curate your ...

Transmedia storytelling = engagement

Friday, September 11th, 2009 Reading Henry Jenkins latest post I was drawn towards a number of points he raises, I would argue that the contemporary moment of transmedia has heightened our awareness of these earlier moments of authors unfolding stories across media, much as the ...

Thou shall not share

Monday, August 31st, 2009 My good friend Gerd Leonhard, has published a great post on the UK's desire to disconnect those that illegally fileshare. As companies struggle to shore up the thinning value of their analogue business models. [caption id="attachment_4328" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Culture lock down. ...

Networked economics comes to the music industry

Friday, August 7th, 2009 Richard Wray writes, It has finally sunk in that there will not be one single replacement for the ongoing drop in "physical" music sales - in other words, the perpetual decline in CD buying. Instead, a host of new services will ...

Communities Dominate Brands – prescient

Saturday, August 1st, 2009 Tim Harrap in a twitter post mentioned a conversation @ Marketing in Australia that identifies Communities Dominate Brands as being – prescient. We have become linked to what is now commonly called Social Media - thought I still prefer the ...

Creating economic value in; content, social communication and Mobility

Friday, March 27th, 2009 Was the guts of Gerd Leonhards presentation at the Nokia Siemens Transformation conference in Cologne this week. Fascinating stuff, and I was very glad that we got to shake hands and have a good chat too. Gerds argument is that the global ...

Currency of information – the future of newspapers

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 The future of newspapers is a bit like climate change: there are now far fewer ‘old-media’ deniers. said Alan Rushbridger In December last year I wrote I predict we will see newspapers fail, the economic downturn is the final scene in this ...