My post about musicians and the concept of “free” music on the internet is now followed here by news of an actual free book online, as in giving it away for free. Chris Anderson wrote on his blog about how Oprah Winfrey gave away Suze Orman’s book “Women and Money.” The interesting point to this [...]
The Moose loves the semicolon and enjoys using the ellipsis… Now New Yorkers can enjoy the correct use of a semicolon on a transit system poster written by a bureaucrat with good grammar skills.
USA Today reports that sales of music due to the popularity of Guitar Hero are climbing and the effect is very real. (Maybe now the recording industry will quit whining?)
“The Guitar Hero effect is real. DragonForce saw digital sales of Through the Fire rise from fewer than 2,000 weekly to a high of 37,825 the [...]
Here’s more insight into “how do I make money on the internet?” From Chris Anderson’s Long Tail blog.
Whether it’s pop stars or Wall Street analysts, the biggest misconception of free is that no cost = no value. For instance, this today from Silicon Alley Insider:
“Whether it’s software, patents, movies, or music, as a planet, [...]
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I am often asked by budding rock stars “but how do I make money on the internet?” Gerd Leonard has posted a simple 5 minute overview of his thoughts on YouTube. In very simple terms he points out the way that the internet is disrupting the record companies’ business and how you, budding [...]
Law professor Lawrence Lessig’s pioneering book on copyright law and intellectual property rights, The Future of Ideas (Random House, 2001), is now appropriately, freely available online: “After a productive and valuable conversation with my publisher, they’ve agreed to permit The Future of Ideas to be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. You can download [...]
Two very interesting electronic MP3s turned up at the Moose today. The first is Rainbow Flag from Supreme Balloon a new release from the electronic experimentalist and occasional Bjork sidekicks, Matmos. Matador releases Supreme Balloon in the U.S. on May 6 and in the UK/Europe May 5.
Matmos - Rainbow Flag
Meanwhile I came across Son Lux [...]
On the back of the post about Dead Meadow I noticed a comment about Black Mountain, so I gave them a listen, and thanks to Side One Track One I can offer you a listen too. They are less bluesy than Dead Meadow and their songs are more epic in that they ebb and flow [...]