If you haven’t seen the recent news on Pandora, the rise in performance royalties for internet radio (coupled with their fast-growing listener base, especially on the iPhone) is swallowing up all their revenue and they may have to shut down. Read about it here.
I really hope they can avert a shutdown by finally inserting audio ads between songs. There’s been discussion of PBS-style Read more »
Most of the opening event ceremony was in the style of “Western Art Music” (i.e. “classical” ish ) — including the Chinese National Anthem itself. Instead of choosing to celebrate traditional music, the Chinese largely deferred to the West. Read more »
This post is long overdue. Have you used Pandora yet? If not, your life is about to get a whole lot better. I discovered Pandora a while back and then for some reason stopped using it. But I moved into a new apartment recently and didn’t have my music hard drive set up yet; PANDORA TO THE RESCUE!
Pandora is the face of the Music Genome Project. They approach music the way scientists approach DNA Read more »
Reuters has published a horrible story arguing that digital music (e.g., mp3s) is actually more wasteful than physical music (e.g., CDs). Click here for the article.
Maybe their conclusion is fair, maybe it’s not. It’s impossible to tell because the article itself draws it’s conclusions from such a selective set of facts. A scientific researcher presented this article would quickly ask at least the following “first-blush” questions: Read more »