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Crowd-Sourcing Kills Art

Posted on 22. Jun, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

Christopher R. Weingarten (@1000TimesYes) – Music Writer, RollingStone.com and Village Voice on Twitter and the End Of Music Criticism.

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Artists & Fans: Wyclef Jean (@wyclef) interview at #140conf with Chris Sacca (@sacca)

Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

Some good points on how to use Twitter to promote your music, engage and reward your fans.
Enjoy the full interview, very entertaining!

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Weekly Digest on the Music Industry – June 21, 2009

Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

BREAKING NEWS

Music Labels Win $2 Million in Web Case [NYT]

Record Labels’ $1.9 Million Win in Thomas Retrial Constitutional?[EFF]

What’s next for Jammie Thomas-Rasset? [Ars]

BUZZ, COMPANIES & TRENDS – MUSIC

Music Charts Won’t Recognise Free Streams Yet [Moconews]

-The Economy of Digital Music- A Harvard Study

• Yet Another Study Shows That Weaker Copyright Benefits Everyone [TechDirt] Download the Full Study here
• Read also Harvard Study Finds Weaker Copyright Protection Has Benefited Society [MichaelGeist]
• Harvard Paper on P2P Flawed But Worth Reading [BillBoard]

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[Book] Ignore Everybody

Posted on 18. Jun, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

There are three kinds of books

-Books that teach you a different, new way to think of reality. They might be fiction or not-fiction, it doesn’t really matter. Some random and notable examples would be The Man in the hight castle or Rules of Thumb

-Books that  inspire you. Think of The Divine Comedy or The Cluetrain Manifesto

-Books that “talk to you”. These are the books that leave the most durable and significant imprint on you because it’s like looking at yourself and your past in a mirror that doesn’t accept any B.S.. You read, you laugh at the truths that are told because you eluded them so many times, and eventually they make you “re-think” of many things.

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Getting Glued To The Power Of A Contextual Web

Posted on 14. Jun, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

Want to share your favorite music, movies, books, or clubs and restaurants with your friends? Sure you can do so by hopping from one social network to the other: from Last.fm to Goodreads to Flixster the options are really infinite.

Or you can get yourself some Glue. Launched late last year, Glue is a browser plugin that connects your web life to that of your friends while you are surfing the web.

How does it work?

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[Book] The Twitter Book

Posted on 14. Jun, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

Twitter has its own ecosystem. Described as a lifecasting and mindcasting platform, it seems to be an open protocol that opens up infinite new forms of communication. Or None!

Not surprisingly in April, Nielsen reported that 60% of Twitter’s new users churn after the first month, and the Harvard Business Review has narrowed down to a mere 10% the percentage of savvy users who generate 90% of the Tweets. Last week, HubSpot, the Cambridge-based marketing firm behind the TwitterGrader, has published a report claiming that

• 55.5% of users are not following anyone
• 54.9% have never tweeted

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What do Kindle and Lala have in common? #DRMFail

Posted on 09. Jun, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

Those stories aren’t “new”. But it is always good to remind us of where we still are….

1) The KINDLE is a DRM locked device (said with a lot of disappointment)

2) LALA’s Propietary Network DRM Threat

KINDLE RELATED STORIES

-Kindle owners find out about DRM’s ever-present threat

-Amazon Uses DRM To Turn Kindle Into A Very Expensive Paperweight

-Is the Kindle one massive DRM timebomb?

-7 Reasons Why TechCrunch’s New Tablet Can Crush The Kindle

-Over 160 O’Reilly Books Now in Kindle Store (without DRM), More on the Way

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Can You Stop End-User Innovations?

Posted on 07. Jun, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

Ok, you’ve read it. Because you MUST read it.

I’m talking of the Steven Jonhson article How Twitter will change the way we live, featured on the current cover of Time.

The last part of the article is  mind-blowing, it is about what Johnson calls “End-user Innovation“.

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Vinyl Rules!

Posted on 07. Jun, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

Forget about home theatre surround sound, iPod docking stations and the new-wave all-in-one music systems. It’s time to get ready for the next revolution, the return of the vinyl record – the favorite physical format of indie music collectors and audiophiles.

December 2008’s issue of Rolling Stone revealed vinyl sales are up 60 per cent from 2007 in the United States alone. Nielsen SoundScan reported 15 percent year-over-year growth in 2007 and 89 percent in 2008, making the 1.9 million vinyl albums purchased last year the most since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.

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TRVSDJAM Mixtape And The Fan-Casting Era

Posted on 06. Jun, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

Last week, TRVSDJAM, the combined force of Travis Barker and DJ-AM, released their newest mixtape via Twitter, offering a free download of their newest mixtape in exchange for a tweet.

By tweeting “Download the new #trvsdjam mixtape ‘Fix Your Face Vol. 2 – Coachella 09′ in exchange for one tweet! http://twitter.trvsdjam.com/”, tweeters receive a free download via an application built by Culture Jam Labs.

As you can see in the pre-populated tweet, a special hashtag – #trvsdjam – is included in the twit, with the goal of making it a top trending topic on Twitter.

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