Fast Company has a feature with mini-interviews from a variety of different digital music pioneers. Called “Digital Music: Sounds of the Future,” the feature includes discussions from Van Toffler, MTV Networks Group President (and founder of Urge along with Microsoft), Michael Robertson of MP3tunes (and Oboe) and Jenny Toomy (a DC/indie rock favorite of mine) of the Future of Music Coalition.
It’s another State of the Blogosphere! (Technorati)
Taxes for iTunes? (CNet)
More Music in the News: Sony signs a British singer with a Webcast audience of 100,000 (NME)
So….Bill Gates really isn’t joining the cast of Dr.Who? (CNET)
Online video show (still am not sure if this is a video podcast?) connecting girls to DIY tech (BoingBoing)
Wired is reporting that the song “Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley, which reached #1 on British charts last week, is the first song to do so via downloads - 31,000 downloads/sales prior to hitting stores on Monday.
Granted, this isn’t in the US, but it could be sometime soon - the UK committee in charge of tracking song sales finally allowed songs available for purchase to be counted even if the song was not yet available in stores. Which is exactly what happened to “Crazy.” What does this mean for the future? More and more hits launching off songs available for download of course!
Is eBay a tool for measuring Ad ROI? (Fast Company)
Web 2.0 Reviews/Cateorization…by hand! (Web 2.0 Awards via Digg)
Want the most popular podcasts? Sort by Popularity. (Micro Persuasion)
Google: Music Store or Not? (CNET)
iPod reaches into the Vatican (even the Pope has an iPod!) (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Speaking of iTunes, the “sales ban” on some new songs leads to CD purchases (Slashdot)
Podcasting workshops in San Fransisco (via Boing Boing)
Releasing new DVDs is part of marketing new movies (AdJab)
What’s a traditional record store to do in the age of digital music? Tower Records has wisely hitched its wagon to podcasts with the announcement of TowerPod.com. By allowing consumers to create personal podcasts using free music from a coalition of lesser known artists, Tower hopes to pump life back into its struggling brand. Tower will place ads on the most popular podcasts created and any revenue generated will be split between the podcaster, the featured artists and Tower Records. Providing a forum for podcast creation and promising consumers and artists a cut is certainly innovative, is Tower Records back on track?
(From Kaitlyn)
In a totally less serious tone, two new Media sharing sites/applications hit today - Songbird (don’t even try to get on this site right now) and VideoBomb . What to make of these two? Don’t worry, I’ll take care of the painful looking through them on Friday!
Making a living at Second Life (Wired)
Make a living by giving away music on file sharing? (TechDirt)
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