I’m yet to get my head around Hashable. Nonetheless, Hashable’s summary of the app’s use at SXSW makes for an interesting distraction.
Archive for March, 2011
This folks is how not to respond to literary criticism. Is all news good news ..?
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[Update: no I haven't.]
Posting to the blog daily, real-time. More to come …
Whether the World needs, or wants, another U2 is to be seen … Nonetheless, Gravity from Irish rockers The Beat Poets is a cracking tune that is, according to the band, setting radio in Ireland on fire.
(Only criticism as a guitarist myself is that the solo unfortunately sounds like mush due to the delay slapping back out of sync with the picking. Gotta fix that one lads.)
A lot has been made of Jon Bon Jovi’s comments in a Sunday Times Magazine feature alleging Apple supremo Steve Jobs destroyed the music business. Single handedly no doubt …
Aside from the old ‘the record business isn’t the music business’ angle, what hasn’t been said is that Bon Jovi is late to the party; this is old news!
In fact it was self-evident in 2004, and I wrote about it endlessly at the time. The simple truth is that the iTunes store effectively unbundled the album format, and it was (sadly) clear that label revenues would be heading south, fast.
and feeling o-so-fine …
Doco from 2006. As relevant today as it was five years ago.
I am often asked what it is that I do professionally. The simple answer is that I unify the inherent conflict between art and commerce, and manage the resulting creative and business outcomes. It’s a great gig!
