I’m already growing tired of the 1.0 and 2.0 thing, but nevertheless, former EMI exec Ted Cohen has pronounced the death of music 1.0 as “five hundred top members of the music business gathered today in New York.”
Nate Anderson reports that the following statements “were made today without controversy:
- DRM on purchased music is dead
- A utility pricing model or flat-rate fee for music might be the way to go
- Ad-supported streaming music sites like iMeem are legitimate players
- Indie music accounts for upwards of 30 percent of music sales
- Napster isn’t losing $70 million per quarter (and is breaking even)
- The music business is a bastion of creativity and experimentation”
Sounds good to me.
Are you ready?
Helping YOU!
Seth has done it again with this post. Go read it, I’ll wait.
I’m passionate about what I write here because people matter. You matter. Not in the “feel good” sense, but in the real sense. You have stuff inside of you that the world needs – I do too.
But as Seth points out, the world is rapidly changing in ways that will leave you behind if you don’t look for and take advantage of every opportunity for personal/professional growth you can. Of course it feels like the world is running you over and leaving you behind. It’s supposed too.
School has trained us to learn lessons and then apply them. This is not how life works. Life runs over us until we learn the lesson.
Accelerate the process.
There’s a bill on the Congressional House floor of Tennessee that mandates curriculum based testing for all children regardless of their school affiliation. Once in affect, this law would mean every child in the state of Tennessee would have to learn exactly what the state decides. Period.
If this sounds like a good idea to you, consider what I wrote to the Congressmen sponsors of the bill:
“Please do not pass House Bill 2795.
We live in a country predicated on certain freedoms that run deep in the hearts and minds of its citizens. Chief among them are freedom of speech and the pursuit of life and liberty. These have made, and will always make, our nation great. Why? Because we need each other to make a great nation.
We need some that cling to the past and traditions and we need those that understand the dawning of new ages well before those around them. Simply put, we need all the differences we can get.
By making one state curriculum the standard for all children through testing, you erase these differences and erase our future. Education – other than character – is not about right or wrong, it is about thinking. As Albert Einstein said “we can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
And this is perhaps no more true today when “We are currently preparing students for jobs and technologies that don’t yet exist…in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.”
Please do not pass House Bill 279
Thank you for your time, Steve”
My wife and I homeschool our kids. And while it’s true that our faith is a part of the reason why, what I just wrote is the real reason (of course, they’re totally interrealated, aren’t they?). I want my kids prepared to live in the future not in the world taught by schools today.
2795 is a terrible idea that I hope dies like it should.
At 10:35 this past Saturday morning, I reached a decision. While reading an article about Evan Williams, the founder of Blogger and Twitter that described his wide ranging yet thoroughly engaging blog, I realized that I needed a change.
I realized that my recent lack of writing on this site has been caused by a strategy focused on helping artists at the exclusion of my other passions. And while a niche focus might work for a business, I am not a business, I’m a person.
So I found myself building an increasingly unmanageable assortment of outlets for my other passions – several blogs, multiple Social Networking sites and other assorted tools. This, in turn, led to an ever increasing number of half-written posts, bookmarks and links (not to mention an unfinished book).
Reading the article Saturday morning was the push I needed to move in a direction I’ve contemplated for some time. I reached a decision.
I will share more of Steve Grossman at Why I Failed.com.
For some, this means that you’ll hardly see a change here at all. For others, some of what I say might run counter to your beliefs. If you’re the first, I hope more of me helps you. If you’re the second, I hope you’ll give my thoughts a chance. If nothing else, you’ll have two opinions to take with you into life.I hope you enjoy the change.
Go hear and view life captured on index cards.
Make sure you at least look at page 19. It explains how to make it in the music business through a couple of lines drawn on an index card.
Wow. And it’s true.
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