My free e-book, The 20 Things You Must Know About Music Online is finally available in Chinese. It was translated months ago. I was the bottleneck. I was quite nervous about formatting and laying it out, and so I put it off for ages. For which I apologise. It’s a bit of an epic. 120 [...]
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This conversation is responsible for my next book Sometimes speculative public funding works. Friends of mine went to South By Southwest Interactive. They’re smart people, they’re from Birmingham, and the idea was that they would bring back new perspectives and new technologies that would help the creative and economic wellbeing of the city as a [...]
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I’ve made the observation in the past that the internet can be thought of as being like electricity, and all of the different things that can plug into it are like appliances. Web browsers, email software, instant messengers, media players and so on. I’ve also made the observation that quite a lot of the time, [...]
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So that’s what they mean separately. What do they mean when you say them together? You’ll remember that when I say ‘music’, I am not only talking about recordings of music. I’m talking about the whole medium of popular music and all of the stages of its production, distribution, promotion and consumption. Likewise, you’ll recall [...]
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