by Steve Grossman | Jun 12, 2008 | Blog, The Industry
From BoingBoing, courtesy of Mark Frauenfelder: J.K. Rowling’s terrific commencement address at Harvard is available as a video, MP3, or text. The fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure…. I...
by Steve Grossman | Jun 12, 2008 | Blog, Career
Beyond considerations about terrorists, the mentally unstable and other rational fears, I’m simply not worried about the technological and environmental challenges of today. Developments like CamTrax are the reason why.Though it doesn’t solve any major...
by Steve Grossman | Jun 12, 2008 | Blog, Career
Beyond considerations about terrorists, the mentally unstable and other rational fears, I’m simply not worried about the technological and environmental challenges of today. Companies like CamTrax are the reason why.Though it doesn’t solve any major world...
by Steve Grossman | Jun 12, 2008 | Blog, Career, Marketing, The Industry
“In today’s globalised, digitised music industry, record companies may be on the run, but the enterprising individual artist has never had it so good.” That’s the quote beginning Robert Plummer’s story on BBC News about Ahmed...
by Steve Grossman | Jun 11, 2008 | Blog, Career, Marketing, The Industry
Check out Dominic Basulto’s slide deck on four business trends:(1) Social Data (2) Micro-Payments for Online Social Experiences(3) Content Mashups(4) “Live” experiences (that really aren’t “live”)What’s interesting to me is...
by Steve Grossman | Jun 11, 2008 | Blog, Career, The Industry
The owner of NYC indie record shop Rockit Scientist Records is quoted as saying:”Anybody who legally downloads music is an idiot! You can get it for free, why pay for it? Download it illegally, who’s going to catch you? Legal or illegal, they sound the...