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

glumbert.com - Kinetic Sculpture

Amazing! glumbert.com - Kinetic Sculpture.

glumbert.com - Kinetic Sculpture

Wired News: Hilary Rosen: Singing a New Song?

Link: Wired News: Hilary Rosen: Singing a New Song?.

Hilary Rosen: Singing a New Song?

Wired News: Steve Jobs' Best Quotes Ever

Link: Wired News: Steve Jobs' Best Quotes Ever.

My favorite:
"I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do."
-- BusinessWeek Online, Oct. 12, 2004

Indeed!

Save The Music Fan: Terry McBride

Link: Save The Music Fan.

Good going Terry!
"....The passionate message of music is in the magic of the "song." The more it's consumed, the more it nourishes. Music is ubiquitous; it's a utility like "water," it's not a pair of pants and as such we need to stop treating music like a product that needs to be controlled..."

Chris Anderson - The Long Tail

I have written on the long-tail before, and the concept has indeed become an integral part of my presentations and lectures. Chris Anderson, Wired Editor, is really the originator of this discussion and his LONG TAIL BLOG is well worth reading. LOADS of great stuff here.  Supernova, a great event in SF that just finished a few days ago (wish I could have made it!), just put up his powerpoints which are a MUST READ, here (click on Chris Anderson)   Be sure to check it out.

Another link that I just found for the Longtail is here -- a dissertation that looks interesting (but lllllargeeee).

Interview with Stephen Hill, Hearts of Space

Here are some real nuggets - Stephen knows his stuff!  Hearts of Space RADIO is here, btw --- great music and great design, too.  Here are some excerpts from the interview:  SH: " But the real deal is online. While satellite radio delivers an useful expansion of broadcast capacity, it's trivial compared to the infinite number of real time channels, archives, discrete programs, and interactive services that can, are, and will be supported on the Internet...."   Yes!!!!   SH: " So the Internet demolishes every one of the limitations of time, space, formats, and bandwidth we had to live with in 20th century radio and    television. This is the revolution we are living through right now"  Couldn't agree more!  SH: "With distribution finally out of the way, the key issue becomes promotion and marketing. Since recording, manufacturing and electronically distributing music is now open to all, the problem is visibility:how do I know you exist? Right after that is relevance: once I know about you, why should I care?..."   A must read.

Xeni Jardin: Behold, the wizard of blogs

a great story from the LA times

JD Lassica

Founder of OurMedia - great stuff on his blog. J.D.Lasica is an independent writer. He is the author of Darknet:Hollywood's War on the Digital Generation (Wiley & Sons, May 2005). J.D. is senior editor of the Online Journalism Review,        JD's blog is here

Nicholas Negroponte pushes a cheap PC for the rest of the world.

The founder and chairman of the MIT Media Lab wants to create a $100 portable computer for the developing world...   I like this guy!  Imagine what would happen if this idea came to fruition - many many many more music downloaders ;). Sounds like a boon to me. Check out some stats on current PC and Internet penetration here

Lawrence Lessig: Remixing Culture

need to publish this link again: Larry Lessig lecture on video  well worth it !!!