19 June , 2007
Blog: Some record companies are experimenting with distributing albums on the portable USB devices, but for now the releases are mostly expensive collectors’ items.
5 June , 2007
Digital Music Rules of the Road for Artists
Here is an useful list for success in the immediate future:
- Utilize MySpace and otherwebsites to its full potential and don’t be afraid to “give your musicaway for free”. If one million people listen to your songs online,don’t see it as you just lost 1 million dollars in potential sales. Seeit as you just got radioplay in 100 markets.
- You have tolearn new ways of viral marketing, including widgets and blog searchengines and don’t be afraid to experiment with putting your music innew places and contexts.
- Look at what the most progressive record labels are doing with their artists, like Canadian Nettwerk and Barenaked Ladies and try to copy it.
- If you play a live gig, make sure people know about it. It may seemlike a no-brainer, but it isn’t always. I don’t know how many goodshows I have missed just because I didn’t know about it. Do all you canto get in Flavorpill and other online publications. Send emails toeveryone you know and make sure everyone that shows up signs your emaillist.
- Press vinyl copies. This might be the last thing youthink about doing, but DJs love vinyl and so do music lovers. Press afew copies and distribute them to your favorite DJs, clubs and critics.
- Don’t sign a record deal. This may seem like a weird suggestion, butstay indie as long as possible. You want to make sure the odds are inyour favor when you finally sign with a big label or it can be ablessing in disguise.
15 May , 2007
Tech Politics Podcast: Copyright, copied wrong, battle goes on
There’s much ado about copyright, whether in Congress, among the movie and recording industries or with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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10 May , 2007
Corey writes “CNet’s Crave is reporting that the popular Web 2.0 music site Last.fm is planning to launch a video-on-demand service that dynamically creates a custom video channel for users in the same way it currently does with music. Read/Write Web also cites a recent press release quoting directors at Last.fm as saying they plan to host every music video ever created. This could well turn out to be the MTV of Web 2.0.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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9 May , 2007
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5 May , 2007
YouTube - Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
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