by Steve Grossman | Jun 13, 2008 | Blog, The Industry
Free Geekery offers a list of 100 free sources for (good) downloadable music. Check it out here.
by Steve Grossman | Jun 13, 2008 | Blog, Career, Marketing, The Industry
In the past two days, I’ve come across four articles about giving away digital content for free. Most are, somewhat understandably, bemoaning the idea. This post quotes Esther Dyson as saying “that the ease with which digital content can be copied and...
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, 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...
