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Albums are dead, the price of music heading towards and other good news
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello March 28th, 2007 in Music Musings, NYTimes, RIAA, RIAA and Record Labels, Research, Research Summary, TrendSpotting, p2p, social media, trend.So this week is turning out to be another pretty bad PR week for the old music biz but healthy signs for the evolution of the industry overall. From the NYT and USAT to lawmakers and academics everyone appears ready to call the traditional music business dead! Sure, folks on the net have been talking [...]
Albums are dead, the price of music going to zero and other good news
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello March 28th, 2007 in Music Musings, NYTimes, RIAA, RIAA and Record Labels, Research, Research Summary, TrendSpotting, p2p, social media, trend.So this week is turning out to be another pretty bad PR week for the old music biz but healthy signs for the evolution of the industry overall. From the NYT and USAT to lawmakers and academics everyone appears ready to call the traditional music business dead! Sure, folks on the net have been talking [...]
Are NYTimes Reporters Finally Starting to Get it?
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello November 16th, 2006 in NYTimes, TrendSpotting, tech humor.Yesterday, while loafing off doing online research, I came across a new book titled We Think, by Charles Leadbeater. I’ll write a bit more about it in future but the abbreviated and much simplified premise is that “professionals” are luddites who are threatened by participatory culture and media folks are among the worst [...]
