Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Friday, April 16, 2021

How streaming is changing the music business | FT Film

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Interesting news video from the Financial Times about how streaming is changing business models and options for recording artists: How do yo...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

McKinsey Report on Diversity in Film and Television

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Interesting set of research from McKinsey into the economic impact of diversity in the film and television industries: Today, Black America...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 45): End of Music Compilations? How Students Perform, Intel buys Kno, 60mins Debacle + more

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Now that's what I call pure proft.  There's still life in compliations: in a word curation.  ( NewStatesman ) The brand has also t...
Monday, September 02, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 35): The Cassette Tape, Birmingham Library, Google Glass, Economist Newspaper +More

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Missed last week. Apologies. Who knew the lowly cassette tape is celebrating 50 years of age.  Not much chance of making 60 I shouldn'...
Monday, July 01, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 26) Digg Reader, Quantified Self, Chicago Public Maker Fair, Music Data Miners + More

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Developing the Digg Reader replacement for Google Reader ( Wired ) McLaughlin saw a blog post in the Fall of 2012 speculating that Google R...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Mr Townshend at The New York Public Library

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From the NYPL Live series a meeting with Mr. Pete Townshend: In conversation with Paul Holdengräber, one of rock-and-roll’s biggest icons...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

Your Price May Vary

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Re-post from November 19, 2009 I was enamored with the airline industry as I grew up and close readers will know I’ve always traveled a lo...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Will a (B)Million Dollar Question and Lots of Money Spell the End for Collecting Agencies?

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Some say that New Jersey is the most politicized state in the nation because the ratio of elected officials to state citizens is one of the ...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Rock Royal Neil Young At BookExpo

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This will be more appealing than Barbara Streisand but that's just me. Neil Young will be speaking at Book Expo to discuss his memoir....
Monday, March 05, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 10): The Monkees, PayPal, Self-Publishing, Jeff Bezos + More

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I was never that aware of The Monkees but the passing of Davy Jones generated a lot of reminiscing.  Mrs. PND recalls the time her Dad broug...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 8): Movies from Books, Digital Music, Coriolanus, Larsson & Journalists + More

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From the Independent "Hollywood ate my Novel" Novelists reveal what it’s like to have their book turned into a movie Literary...
Sunday, November 06, 2011

MediaWeek (Vol 4, No 45): The New A&R, Problem Biographies, Scan your Books, Education, Libraroes + More

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Changing the way music stars are made ( Economist ): David Joseph, who runs the British arm of Universal Music, says A&R men used to b...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

MediaWeek (Vol 4, No 43): Tom Waits, Children's Books, The Booker, "Close the Libraries", Textbooks & Education + More

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Interview with Tom Waits in the Observer : "Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lif...
Saturday, May 28, 2011

Won't Get Fooled Again - Intelligent Life

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Long article/interview with Pete Townshend ( Intelligent Life ): The Who as we know them came into being in 1964, and soon became the most ...
Friday, May 13, 2011

Repost: Pete Townshend's Biography

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Pete may finally publish his autobiography according to Crains . In 2007 he was blogging as a mechanism to organize his possible book. He...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Not so benighted music business: There's money to be made.

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The economist reviews how musicians are making money in a media segment that has been derided as an internet loser. Here are several clips...