February 5, 2008 – 1:47 pm
Pro Sound News has published an article about the latest statistics for digital music downloading by “tweens”, those children between 9 and 14. While the slant in this article is decidedly negative (it is a trade publication after all), the stats show that most kids of this age group are using paid or legal downloading [...]
October 12, 2007 – 11:47 am
Different Skies is an electronic space music festival, a workshop for artists in these and related experimental music genres, a working vacation, an intensive and rewarding creative environment, and many more things. It is held here at Arcosanti, which was recently featured in a New York Times article.
Jim will be performing at Different Skies 2007 [...]
September 25, 2007 – 10:17 am
Will Wright discusses the game Spore at TED, and the role of Montessori schools and their use of toys and tools for creating playspaces for learning and to how to do the same thing for adults.
In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than [...]
September 24, 2007 – 9:23 am
In an interesting twist, or perhaps the next logical step, a number of celebrities and foundations are teaming with youth media powerhouse MTV to establish a venue for socially-conscious, online social networking. This follows MySpace’s Impact in the online space, and numerous other campaigns and events tying social good to youth.
MTV Launches Socially Conscious Networking [...]
September 19, 2007 – 8:40 am
CD Baby is an independent online record store that started its life selling the CDs of independent music artists, and is now also provides those same artists a portal onto iTunes and many other virtual download stores. They just announced how well different virtual stores were doing for their artists. (CD Baby has been the [...]
September 18, 2007 – 8:33 am
As online sales and reservations contribute more revenue to hospitality, travel, and other physical presence businesses (businesses whose connection to consumers occurs at a physical experience point rather than virtually), immature companies without a balanced scorecard approach to overall success may mistake the boom in online sales with a signal to reduce expenditures in traditional [...]
August 29, 2007 – 2:40 pm
Fora.tv is my new favorite website. Here is Andrew Keen in a debate about the premise of his newish book “The Cult of the Amateur—How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture”.
View The Cult of the Amateur on FORA.tv
August 29, 2007 – 1:46 pm
As much as the voice inside my head is screaming at me to stop perpetuating stupid YouTube video spam and endorsing the cult of the amateur ascribed thereunto, this is weird and cool.
So I guess I’ll be the one to break the seal on YouTube linkage. I’m sorry.
August 20, 2007 – 4:24 pm
The Filter, an upstart music recommendation play, has just attracted a fresh financing round led by Peter Gabriel. The 2.5 million pound ($4.96 million) infusion also involves Eden Ventures, according to information recently reported by the Independent.
August 17, 2007 – 10:45 am
Or maybe it is just insane. The creator of these videos clearly has too much time on his hands. Although, the attention to details and production values is to be admired.