“1. You’re going to get a Timeline — a scrapbook of your life. In a complete overhaul of its ever-evolving profile page, Facebook is introducing Timeline. This is a stream of information about you — the photos you’ve posted, all your status updates, the apps you’ve used, even the places you’ve visited on a world map — that scrolls all the way back to your birth. It encourages you to post more stuff about your past, such as baby pictures, using Facebook as a scrapbook.”
“Perhaps as a reaction to increased “free music” competition from iHeartRadio to Spotify or perhaps to offer advertisers the biggest possible audience, Pandora has eliminated it’s 40 hour free listening cap. The move came on the same day that the music service rolled out a click new HTML5 player with more social sharing to all users.”
“The watershed digital-holdout moment was The Beatles catalog hitting iTunes last fall, selling 5 million tracks in the first two months alone. Earlier this month, Aerosmith added its 1973-1987 hit parade to Apple’s store. Bob Seger’s vinyl-era classics Live Bullet and Nine Tonight went digital last week and have notched 231,000 downloads.”
From working with massive bands that have attained international stardom like Maroon 5 and Disturbed, to working with classic hair metal groups on a reboot like Motley Crue and Aerosmith, Daddy Van artist Charlie Terrell has carved out a niche for his digital video and film work.
“My video is not my true voice, it is the residue of my ambition,” Terrell stated. “But when I’m working with a client, I like the challenge of trying to please them even though it’s not necessarily my own work. That’s the real challenge.”
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“After a decade when sales tumbled 50 percent, record labels cut thousands of jobs and more than 35,000 consumers got sued for illegal downloads, the industry is coming around to the idea of giving away songs as a way to get customers to pay.”
“The European Union has extended the term of copyright protection offered to sound recordings from 50 to 70 years, following a prolonged campaign from the music industry.”
“The image seemed piped into the streets of Los Angeles from San Francisco’s Summer of Love. There he is, in the middle of Hollywood Boulevard, a lone tousled and shirtless soldier for peace, tan shoulders and sinewy arm supporting a raised fist with two fingers sticking up like bunny ears. His back is to the camera, and the aperture is focused on the 30-odd LAPD riot-squad members staring him down. They’re helmeted and armed. He’s wearing neon bracelets.”
“Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites are a great way to share what you’re reading with other, often like-minded people. But as you hit “Tweet” or “Post,” have you ever wondered just how long your link of a cute kitten picture or deep-dive analysis into foreign policy is on your friends’ radars?”
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