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| Monday, February 17, 2003 |
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Why eBay is more business than marketplace 
| | Check this out. [Note... this link went to the wrong place most of today. Sorry about that. It's fixed now.] |
| | Think Google would do the same thing? I kinda doubt it, in spite of whatever may be true among the items listed here. |
| | If you're in the infrastructure business, you're dumb where it counts, and aren't even in a position to narc on anybody. |
| | Thanks to Ernest Miller at LawMeme for the link. |
I go once and it's already a habit
| | Will somebody put me on a panel or something, so I can rationalize going to SXSW? |
Cut off the customer and the industry dies
| | In Embrace file-sharing, or die, John Snyder, president of Artist House Records, board member of NARAS, and 32-time Grammy nominee, says something I said several years ago; but he and his (co-writer) son deliver the message with infinitely more credibility, and, hopefully, far more effect. Me: |
| | Napster and its successors are the listeners' workaround of the failed radio industry, which replaced trusted music connoisseurs with payola-driven robots that serve only as freebie machines for the record industry's pop music factories. (More in the same veins here, here, here and here.) |
| | Why is it that record companies pay dearly for radio play and fight Internet play? What is the real difference between radio and the Internet? Perfect copies? If we look at the Internet as analogous to radio, the problem becomes one of performance rights, not the unlawful exploitation of intellectual property. People are creating their own Radio on their hard drives, and they are constantly changing it. Would this have anything to do with the "McDonaldization" of radio by Clear Channel and others? Would the fact that almost every song on commercial radio is bought and paid for have anything to do with the narrow focus and homogeneous nature of radio? What drives radio is advertising and money, not music. A lot of music gets left behind thanks to the current state of radio; that consumers are rejecting it shouldn't be surprising. They're creating their own MP3 playlists, and if the labels were smart, they'd be doing everything in their power to be on those playlists, just like they do everything in their power to be on the playlists of radio stations. Instead, they scream copyright infringement and call their lawyers. |
| | I wonder if the rest of the NARAS board is listening. Anybody know? |
Afterblog
| | - Jonah's Funktrain and LABlogs reports (both with mucho linkage)
- Paul Snively's excellent report on the whole thing
- Joe Crawford's link-filled rundown
- Mark Frauenfelder's photos, taken with a camera so small you could drown it like an olive in a martini glass
- Three of my own photos, taken with the new Sony camcorder from my lap, on stage
- Ming the Mechanic's cool on-site report
- Moxie's explanation of why she was (or wasn't) there (either way, she was sorely missed)
- Tony Pierce's all-true account of What Went Down, including a perfect exposé of Journalism as Unusual... if you want to know why Google bought Blogger look no further than this very story
- Random$Foo, live
- Ev (the hands-down star of the thing, even without delivering his closing Fuck Whoa salvo) has this account... Everyone got quiet for a second while they read "Google buys Pyra." Doc said "holy shit." For what it's worth ($millions, I hope, in pre-IPO Google stock), Ev offers these Bloogleplications.
- Audblog, which Ev showed off
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| | Pretty amazing: I was there and even now I still have less to say about the Bloogle Thing than anybody else. |
| | By the way, the L.A. Times will have something on the show in the Calendar section, I'm told. |
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