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Thursday, June 06, 2002 |
LINKED: The New Science of Networks:. "How Everything is Connected to Everything Else, and What it Means for Science, Business and Everyday Life." As the metaphysicists have been saying throughout the ages. Looks interesting. [Amazon] [evhead]
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posted by AkulaIX » June 5 7:08 AM | 6 comments. Thinking Around the Corners, a new but very different creative magazine, launched this morning. The purpose of TAtC to to inspire designers, painters, etc. from the examples of other creatives like writers and poets -- following Duchamp's thought, "I felt that as a painter I was much better off to be influenced by a writer than by another painter." This issue features an interview with Jeffrey Zeldman on what inspires him and how he gets through the creative process. [MetaFilter]
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Business crisis for the music industry....
Michael Wolff: "The music business, this theory acknowledges, is about selling technology as much as music. From mono to stereo to Walkman. It just happens that the next stage of technological development in the music business has largely excluded the music business itself." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] Here's some more from the article:
"And then, before anyone was quite aware of what was happening, file-sharing replaced radio as the engine of music culture."
It wasn't just that it was free music -- radio offered free music. But whatever you wanted was free (whenever you wanted it). The Internet is music consumerism run amok, resulting not only in billions of dollars of lost sales but in an endless bifurcation of taste. The universe fragmented into sub-universes, and then sub-sub-universes. The music industry, which depends on large numbers of people with similar interests for its profit margins, now had to deal with an ever-growing numbers of fans with increasingly diverse and eccentric interests.
It is hard to think of a more profound business crisis. You've lost control of the means of distribution, promotion, and manufacturing. You've lost quality control -- in some sense, there's been a quality-control coup. You've lost your basic business model -- what you sell has become as free as oxygen. [C.K. Sample, III: my iPod blog]
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