Category Archives: Music Industry

An Old Dog Teaching Us Something About New Tricks

By John Furnari | Published: December 3, 2009
We’ve been working with the Bill Cosby team and it’s been a pleasure on a number of levels. Clearly there’s the simple history of having grown up with the man in your living room every night. Of course there’s his pure and true desire - whether you agree with his perspective or not [...]
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Music Ally’s “Can Music Be Free?” Week

By John Furnari | Published: November 30, 2009
The guys over at Music Ally have a really interesting feature going this week - a series of Q&A sessions revolving around the debate “Can Music Be Free?” It’s a serious question to tackle, and they’re bringing the best and brightest out to take a stab at it.  Today they spoke with Robin Kent of Rebel [...]
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“The Story of Stuff” with Annie Leonard

By Greg Cargill | Published: November 23, 2009
It is my hope that the use of internet as a resource will streamline human existence to the point where we start to value advancement over amassing a collection of possessions.  After all, the internet is changing the ways in which we think about sharing and our understanding of the value in being social.  That [...]
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MySpace Buys imeem and What It Means…If Anything

By John Furnari | Published: November 19, 2009
MySpace purchased imeem yesterday for $1 million in cash, about 5% of what it recently paid for another leading name in ad-supported streaming music, iLike. If you told anyone inside the industry a year or two ago if this was going to be the fate of imeem, not many would have cosigned the prediction.  There was [...]
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Clarity In the War on Blogs? - Blogger Updates DMCA Complaint Policy

By John Furnari | Published: August 27, 2009
Back in February we covered an interesting situation brewing in the world of music blogging.  At the time, many bloggers were experiencing a complete removal of content from their sites due to DMCA copyright policy without any real insight into what infringements they may have committed.  Clearly this raised many eyebrows, but resulted in very [...]
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