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TechFestNW a panel discussion: Musicians and the Internet 25 Aug 2013 | 03:33 am
The root idea of disruptive innovation is that it is messy and it doesn’t have answers – Justin Spohn When Ryan Wines of Marmoset Music invited me to speak on a panel at the Portland TechFestNW confe...
Matthew Yglesias: the Internet effect on news is good, there’s more of it 15 Aug 2013 | 10:01 pm
I like where Yglesias goes with this, and of course the parallels to the music business are unavoidable but that’s another post. Yglesias’ take is simple; as he puts it “American news media has never ...
An interview with Sasha Frere-Jones of the New Yorker 12 Aug 2013 | 05:53 pm
Wilco lead singer Jeff Tweedy at the Wilco Loft in Chicago, Illinois. Photograph by Peter Hoffman/Redux via The New Yorker In yet another attempt to get beyond the rhetoric that often cripples the de...
David Bollier on Ivan Illich and the contemporary Commons Movement 12 Aug 2013 | 07:17 am
The attraction of the commons, then, may be that it promises the emergence of a non-cynical form of post-modern politics – Dougald Hine Recently I came across this: The Quiet Realization of Ivan Illi...
Please Like this article, because your friends will too 9 Aug 2013 | 08:49 am
Way back when, as captured by the Internet time machine in 2008 I believe, I wrote an essay entitled Facebook Likes Are not Engaging. The version of which I link to here was updated in 2010. The title...
For science, against big data 9 Aug 2013 | 12:17 am
The swings and roundabouts of Science and Big Data with Steven Pinker and Leon Wieseltier. Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist and popular science author, as ...
A strange week in music and tech, ad infinitum 7 Aug 2013 | 01:28 am
Here we are and it’s only Tuesday. Things got off to a strange start for me when I opened Paul Krugman’s blog, as I do every morning, and read this post – Nate Silver, Superstar. Now let me be clear...
Marshall McLuhan in Annie Hall 26 Jul 2013 | 08:25 am
I often mention Marshall McLuhan in my posts. It’s not that I’m some sort of expert on his work, it’s just that I always felt chafed when I saw how the phrase he coined “The medium is the message,” be...
Nate Silver and the end of newspapers 23 Jul 2013 | 03:13 am
Yes, that’s a hyperbolic post title, and I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that there were people at the New York Times that disliked Silver’s approach to political reporting and were glad to see him...
More thoughts on music tech rhetoric inspired by David Byrne 23 Jul 2013 | 12:23 am
I came across this David Byrne TED talk again on my friend Chris Riley’s website. Byrne’s talk is from February 2010, more than three years ago, and it consists of his wonderful insights into how arch...
