Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Digital immigrants buying up digital natives

Thursday, July 13th, 2006We all know about News Corp buying myspace or, ITV buying FriendsterThe Economist reports thatOld media companies are also snapping up internet firms as fast as they can. Most of these are profitable, in contrast to the dotcoms ...

Mobile music users surpass online by 2010

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006While mobile music adoption remains low, IDC forecasts that U.S. wireless music services will have over 50 million users and generate more than a billion dollars in revenue in 2010, just 5 years after appearing in late 2005Via IDC

Myspace writing ourselves into existence

Friday, July 7th, 2006NOTE MYSPACE.COM HAS A HIGHER NIELSEN RATING THAN MTVA community will only evolve when a people control their own communicationsIn The man who put teenagers' lives onlineA glimpse into the world of Chris ...

mobile myspace, and the relationship between brands and communities

Friday, June 2nd, 2006So here's a surprise the action on the MySpace music channel outpaces the other online music venues. According to Jupiter Research, the rambunctious and infectious community action on MySpace Music exceeds Yahoo Music, AOL Music, and MTV.com. In fact, ...

Stumbling upon Lily@myspace.com

Friday, May 26th, 2006I came across this article in last weeks Observer Music monthly magazine. Pictures of Lily A story of the power of networks, the internet and a new socio-economic model hard at workMiranada Sawyer writes,Last month I used my ...

Better Than We Know Ourselves

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006Music - economics - socioeconomics - search - contextual search - narrative threads in a borderless world - google for the ears - collaborative filtering - tags - social information filtering - navigating superabundance in a superdistributed world - databases ...

The battle for my(voice)space

Thursday, April 20th, 2006Musings on myspaceThis post below on myspace is interesting for a variety of reasons. After my initial excitement about Rupes buying myspace, and extolling the virtues of buying the holes in the digital cheese.I stopped and wondered if ...

Networks, music and communities

Friday, April 7th, 2006CTIA: The New New Media PanelAn interesting panel discussion about bringing, in this instance; music and digital communities together.I quote extensively from the piece as I think it is worthwhile. what is insightful is a growing understanding that you ...

IP, communities, whose media is it anyway? And demand economics

Monday, April 3rd, 2006I have been thinking about the issues surrounding commons based peer-to-peer flows of communication. Something that I blogged about last year within the context of JD Lasica's book Darknet: Hollywoods war on the digital generation And more ...

When push comes to pull: the new economy & culture of the networked society

Thursday, March 30th, 2006I have been reading the Aspen Institutes latest ouvre, entitled When push comes to pull. The new economy & culture of networking technologyWhich resonates deeply with Communities Dominate Brands.David Bollier the author states If the world seems a confusing ...

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