The title of this article is one of film-maker Werner Herzog’s quotes. He rails against the “worn out” images that are served up by TV, and his advice to budding film-makers is, “You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school,” and “Work as a taxi […]
Month: February 2006
Is it the music or the player that’s free?
Eleven months ago, when writing about Magnatune’s TunePlug USB Drive that comes pre-loaded with music, I asked the question, “is it possible that we’ll start to see promotional products that bundle player and music at prices little more than you would normally pay for the music alone?” Now that Dixons is offering a 512MB MP3 […]
Is the dust settling on podcasting?
Is it just me or are all the bubbles in the podcasting lather turning into a thin layer of slightly manky detergent on the surface of internet pond life? There was a spell last year, after iTunes first included podcast subscriptions, where the response to everything seemed to be “The solution is to start podcasting […]
Yahoo: music and authenticity
There have been a couple of interesting postings in the last week on the Yahoo! Music Blog — almost as interesting for their candid, open style as for their content. First, Ian C Rogers outlines the new features of the Yahoo! Music Engine. Ian’s blog post seems to take the place of a corporate press […]
Audio Branding Event, 23 February
In a couple of weeks I’m chairing an event called Sounds Subliminal: Branding the future with audio in London. The event is about the pros and cons of using sound as part of brand identity. There’s an impressive range of speakers, including Dan Jackson of Sonicbrand, who literally wrote the book on sonic branding, and […]
Online radio revisited and updated
It’s almost two years since I argued here that online radio is the model for listening to music in the future. I know there aren’t many who mark this anniversary as a national holiday, but to me it felt like a point where several things clicked into place in my mind. There’s a fascinating article […]
Publishing your perspective and expertise with Squidoo
Here’s another Web-2.0-style tool for aggregating information and links. It’s the idea of Seth Godin, who has made his name from a series of books on innovative approaches to marketing in the age of the web. He sees this service, called Squidoo as a means for others to make their names in their areas of […]