I ended up having a lot of really interesting conversations about the ‘pay whatever you want (including free)’ pricing model for digital goods (usually abbreviated to PWYW) over the past 24 hours as a response to my blog post about why I had selected to make my book Music in the Digital Age available with [...]
Categories: Business
I’ve been in Belfast for the past weekend, doing what we came to describe as a ‘knowledge sprint‘. My friend Rich Dale (pictured above, uploading his brain to the internet) is co-founder of a startup called Planzai. I’m on their board of advisors.* Planzai is a web application that helps people do things, with easy-to-follow [...]
Photo by DoktorSpinn I saw an article being linked to from Twitter this morning. It was entitled 10 Reasons PR Should Embrace Twitter. I thought I should go check it out, partly because I regularly guest lecture about the internet on a PR module at Birmingham City University, and partly because I had a feeling [...]
Categories: Business,culture,Technology
Photo by Dunechaser The record industry is in turmoil. We’ve known that for a long time. But today, the news comes that Guy Hands is desperately trying to stave off a firesale by doing some sort of deal with the other major record labels to manage its catalogue. I’ve been reading a book recently (actually, [...]
Categories: 30 Days,Business,culture,Idea
Tagged: culture, EMI, Recordings
My card Today’s idea is a fairly simple one: a business card that remains relevant and current no matter whether you change your job, your address, your phone number or your email address. People you give your card to simply open up a generic reader application on their computer, hold the card up to their [...]
Categories: 30 Days,Business,Idea
Tagged: Business Card
You should go here and sign up to give your support to the idea. And here’s a Facebook link for good measure.
Categories: Business
Photo by Infodad So, that’s it then. The end of 2009. Looking back over the notes, this was a pretty good year, and since I’ve blogged a fair bit of it (though with some significant gaps – must watch that in 2010), I thought I’d do a quick wrap-up of some of the highlights. But [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Business,Family,New Zealand,Technology,Travel,Whisky
I’ve always wanted to have a record shop. I don’t want to sell the music, necessarily – I just like the idea of being surrounded by all those records, talking to the people who come in about albums I like, listening to music, reading books during the quiet times – and maybe having bands do [...]
Categories: Business,Music,New Zealand
Tagged: Business, Music, New Zealand
River of ice outside the hotel I’ve spent the last few days in Helsinki at a music industry conference called Is This It. Since I’m not that great at mingling (or at least, slow to start), I brought my laptop down to the first networking breakfast session on Friday. Coffee and email, while people settled [...]
Click to play Today, I went to Jibbering Records in Moseley for probably the last time. They close in a week – but I’m off to NZ on Monday evening, and unless I get a chance to pop in during the day on Monday for one final cafetiere and a browse through the Funk bin, [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Business,Music,Video
Tagged: Birmingham, Business, Music, Video
