Podcasting: is there a business model?

For those of you yet to get into podcasting, I couldn’t recommend it more highly. Though it’s not exactly mainstream yet, the ability to donload free content of your choice is incredible.
There is an amazing growth of in Blogs (Technorati is calling it at 26.4 million now, up 5.7 million since I started this blog). [...]

Iceland

I, for one think that Iceland seems like a very cool place.
For a start, they have a handful of awesome musical exports including Sigur Ros and Mum.
And an article from the ABC (I heard it first at Shea Gunther’s excellent blog) reports that Iceland is the first country in the world that is planning to [...]

Indie Music’s Long Tail

The record industry as we know it is dead. Offline CD sales were 7.2% down in 2005, in contrast to digital download sales of music. According to Rolling Stone, sales of digital tracks increased from 141 million in 2004 to 353 million in 2005. And 2005 was the first time in history that online record [...]

Top fives for 2005

It seems everybody is blogging about top 5s for the year. Here’s my bandwagon-jumping entry.
Top five books I read in 2005

The Cluetrain Manifesto – Doc Searls, David Weinberger, Rick Levine, Christopher Locke
Unleashing the Ideavirus – Seth Godin
Girlfriend in a Coma – Douglas Coupland
Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs – Chuck Klosterman
Small Pieces Loosely Joined – David [...]