Archive for February, 2005
The best selling CD of 2004 was blank and recordable
Authors Gerd Leonhard and David Kusek (co-developer of the MIDI standard) discuss The Future Of Music industry in their new book. They cover some interesting topics. Chapter 1 is free to download.
Table of Contents
1. Music Like Water
2. Our Top-10 Truths of the Music Business
3. Futurizing some Popular Music Industry Myths
4. The Future of Music Marketing and Promotion
5. The Future of Music Distribution and Acquisition
6. The Digital Kids and the Changing Marketplace
7. A New Music Economy
8. How Technology Will Rewire the Music Business
9. Megatrends that Will Impact the Future of Music
10. Onto the Future
Via (Lessig Blog)
Master of all I survey (in Central Myanmar)
Panoromic view of the valley below the temple at Mount popa in Central Myanmar.
Asian Civilization Museum: Upcoming Events
ACM Public Lecture
Tigers Round the Throne: Tipu Sultan as Patron of the Arts
By Anne Buddle
Thursday 10 Mar
7.00pm to 8.30pm
ACM, Empress Place
Tipu Sultan succeeded his father Haidar Ali as ruler of Mysore (in present day Karnataka state, south India; 1782-1799). He was renowned as a warrior and campaigned fearlessly against the British who were trying to extend their political influence in India beyond the trading ports of Madras and Calcutta. Known as the ‘Tiger of Mysore’, he adopted the stylised tiger stripe or bubri as his personal motif. Less well-known was his softer side as a patron of the arts, particularly decorative arts such as jewellery, metalwork, textiles, firearms and armour, which will be the focus of this lecture.
Free admission. A donation would be appreciated.
Blogging and the family: Northern Voice blogger conference
One attendee in one of our “Introduction to Blog” session suspected that her teenage daughter had a anon. blog. She was wondering if there was a way she could find the blog. We suggested (jokingly) that she surprise the daughter with a gift. Later in the night she could locate the daughter’s blog by running a web search with keywords like “Wow!! my mother bought me a gift”.
Not sure if the mother was able to find the blog (or even if it is a good idea to find the blog). We wonder if the way you interact with someone changes if you read their blogs mainly because you have so more information about the person and the way he or she thinks.
What if the mother also started blogging, would the daughter be equally keen on finding the mom’s blog? What would happen if the entire family blogged? How would it affect the family member’s relationships with each other?
Julie Leung blogs, her husband and her daughters also blog. Last weekend she spoke about Blogging as a Social Tool and Family Lifestyle at the Northern Voice Blogging Conference - a gathering of Canadian bloggers (via Cogdogblog ).
Check out the conference website. They had some interesting people speak there on interesting topics. Hopefully, they will put up some audio from the conference.
Julie Leung also led the “Emotional Life of Weblogs” session at Bloggercon III last november. The amazing IT Conversation site has audio from Julie Leung’s Bloggercon III session on Emotional Life.
Update 1: The conference media is online at the Blogsphereradio site. Thanks Darren.
Update 2: Northern Voice conference covered by The Tyee. Thanks Professor Crawford Kilian.
Update 3: Julie Leung wrote (in response to this post) that it is not a good idea to suggest parents that they use such tricks to figure out their teen’s blogs. I agree, I apologise for not making clear in my post earlier that it was jokingly said.
Wiki based translation projects in China and Chinese language podcasts
Via Andrea Leung’s Tsalon blog comes this link to TalkBlog. TalkBlog features audio interviews with prominent bloggers from the Chinese language blogsphere.
TalkBlog is run by Issac Mao . Issac is also instrumental in the wiki based Chinese translation of Lessig’s book Free culture. They have also started working on a Chinese translation of Dan Gillmor’s We the Media.