MP3 talk recording (approx. 90 minutes): Featured speaker David Jones is a Democratic political operative who waged a small ad campaign to "take down" Howard Dean.
Here's the background piece that was passed out at the beginning of the session.
[ I recorded the session which lasted approx. 90 minutes. Here's the MP3. The paper shuffling you hear at the beginning of the meeting dies down after the meeting got started. ]
My comments: Dear Mr. Henley. Upload some free new MP3 tracks to the Web (using Creative Commons license) and see what happens. Recognize the fact that the Recording Industry has already built you a brand and run with it. Start looking at the glass half full instead of half empty all the time. Embrace the changes the Internet is making with recorded audio and the opportunities it opens for you to connect directly on a daily basis with your old and new fans. Work the Internet technology as it evolves instead of fighting it and you will find that the Internet will put you in control of the destiny of your art and career and not some megacorporation. Priceless!!
Don Henley of all people weighs in on the current state of the music industry in his Washington Post article Killing the Music ...
What irks me most about his article is that I think Don's only looking at the situation from the perspective of recording artists with mansions and regular fat royalty checks rolling in funding their glamorous lifestyles. Sure, they probably have reason to worry, as do the artists hoping to achieve that sort of arrangement for themselves. But new artists in my opinion are in better shape for making a comfortable living off their art than they've been in for a long, long time. And I think that's way more important to the future of music than keeping the rich elders afloat.
Note: From my research, Doug Kenline seems to be one of the most active audiobloggers in the BlogAudSphere.
Doug Kenline thoughts on audioblogging "But I do like the audioblogs. Not that I ever say anything worthwhile on them myself, but just imagine if a Congressman would start doing an audioblog every day. And then if every Congressional Representative in the United States Congress would start doing one every day. They could have their secretary's put titles on the posts and transcribe every word they said ver batim for the readers. Imagine how cool that would be. "
