Sounds, Images, Words
My daughter is doing a school project dealing with music’s social impact. The students are being asked to pick a decade and research songs from that period, while looking at the social issues people faced at that time. She chose to look at the 80s and her preliminary inquiry brought up the cold war, nuclear [...] Read full article
I’ve been blogging since 2001. This current blog started in late 2004. In 2005-06 I had some pretty serious traffic and a large following. Then things tapered off for a long time. Recently I’ve been trying to breath new life into this blog. Right now, my typical daily traffic is double what it was six [...] Read full article
The internet is aflutter with the news that mobile, social photography platform, Instagram was just sold to Facebook for U$1 Billion. Within months of seeing Kodak, the icon of the film era, go bankrupt, we now have a start-up built around mobile photography (and vintage nostalgia) realising huge profits. What This Means For The Industry [...] Read full article
Klout is a service that claims to be able to measure people’s online “influence.” Supposedly, Klout can analyse your social media activity and by assigning you a number (out of 100), show how “influential” you are in comparison to other social media devotees. To say I’m skeptical about Klout’s accuracy and objectives is something of [...] Read full article
Who the hell is Bob Lefsetz? It’s a question I’m asked, more and more in conversations, emails and online exchanges. And, it’s the heading of a recent expose in Wired magazine. If you are a musician, music-lover or in any way connected to the music business, I’d encourage you to check out that Wired article [...] Read full article