Gerd Leonhard's Blog on The Future of Music, Media & Entertainment

Consumer and Advertiser break up - great video

"You do all the talking" - gotta love it!

Really great video on Disney and Copyright

From Cory Doctorow over at Boing-Boing "Bucknell prof Eric Faden has produced the most amazing video mashup I've ever seen: "A Fair(y) Use Tale" cuts together thousands of extremely short clips from dozens of Disney cartoons, lifting indivudal words and short phrases to spell out an articulate, funny, and thoroughly educational lesson on how copyright works. This is the most subversive and hilarious use of Disney material I've ever seen -- and there's even a really smart chapter about why Faden used Disney material to make his film..."

Google maps isn't perfect yet: it makes you swim across the ocean ;)

Found this on the net somewhere- looks like Google Maps still has a way to go ;)

Lots of April 1 jokes out theree today

Mashable talks about the Gmail Paper
The Register talks about an Apple Google Phone
more soon!

The Kegulator: measure how much beer you'll need

seems like a useful tool for the music industry The Kegulator.

The Big Picture | Whats Wrong with the Music Industry in One Long Sentence (annotated)

From 2004... but still true!!
The Big Picture | Whats Wrong with the Music Industry in One Long Sentence (annotated).

CEA poster: this is a pirate - this is NOT

Found this on the net recently - very well put. The confusing use of the term 'pirate' needs to stop -- the USERS aka fans aka people formerly known as consumers are not the (same) pirates than illegitimate commercial CD sellers!

from the EFF: funny animated video on the broadcast flag, analog hole etc - a must watch!!

Link: EFF: Homepage.

From the EFF site:  "Hollywood wants Congress to give it new super powers over your TV, radio, and computer. Find out more in this animation, and write to stop the
Broadcast Flag, Audio Flag, and Analog Hole laws...."

A picture is worth a thousand words...

Source of link: Pho List / Jim Griffin

Joe Cartoon: Frog Bender 2000

Link: Joe Cartoon: Frog Bender 2000.

One of my favorites. Having a bad day?  Just try THIS