From usability guru Jakob Nielsen:
E-newsletters that are informative, convenient, and timely are often preferred over other media. However, a new study found that only 11% of newsletters were read thoroughly, so layout and content scannability is paramount.
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A campus newspaper from Seattle reminds us that every big name band started out in some local club somewhere…
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Streaming radio over cell phones was the holy grail for small broadcasters even when I helped launch xpn.org back in the late ’90s. With cheaper-every-week access and tools like mobile ShoutCast, if you don’t like your local stations, you can tune in to a niche-caster, like WFUV, KEXP, WOXY or RadioIO.
There are two things that [...]
The first of many articles to describe, on the eve of her new release, what’s up with Ani Difranco.
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Not the best way to get artists to cover your material.
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Sometimes, market forces work in your favor. When AFTRA, the union that includes most voice-over announcers, forced stations to pay extra to use their talent on streaming audio, it pretty much eliminated the benefits of streaming for commercial radio. Non-comms haven’t had the same problems. In fact, stations with a mission to serve as wide [...]
Whether it’s our own Schoolkids Records here in Athens, or other indie retail success stories, there’s lots of proof now that a tightly focused, fun independent record store can survive the same dismal market that caused the mighty Tower Records to buckle.
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Wired reviews the good and bad of GarageBand.
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I’m suffering a little short-term data/e-mail loss… if you e-mailed me in the past few days and didn’t get a response, kindly resend. Thanks!
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Andre Grey from DEMO has posted one of the most concise, coherent explanations of the current state of music commerce. I don’t know that I agree with him about how swiftly this will happen (I think it will take a little longer), but I agree with these key points:
* Music is swinging back to a [...]
