Typography
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, was trained in typography. As was Tony Martin, Australia’s best comedian / radio host / film maker / film…
Continue reading →Trends and Insights
The user is always right. And the user is always far ahead of the companies they are buying from. Companies need to understand their future digital consumer and do things now to meet them and exceed their expectations.
Borders is in trouble. Not good.
The Australian arm of the fantastic chain of bookstores, Borders, is being put up for sale by its US parent company. The US company is…
Continue reading →A corporate competitor for YouTube
From NewsCorp and NBC Universal. So interesting how this new venture will go, especially when you consider News Corp and Google are in bed in…
Continue reading →Conservatory Hotel – Sydney: Do not stay there
It’s patently clear. Do not stay at the Observatory Hotel in Sydney unless you want news of your most intimate moments splashed all over the…
Continue reading →Monetising Quality
…So the challenges, I guess, are to get good at predicting ‘great’ before the market takes action, and to be clear with yourself and your…
Continue reading →Don’t read this post
But feel free to analyse it.
Continue reading →Five reasons why Second Life is shit
1. There’s no point to it. World of Warcraft and other online games and spaces have a point – make friends, complete quests, shoot people,…
Continue reading →Jobs’s Volte Face on Music?
Steve Jobs, guru extraordinaire of Apple Computer, has published a very interesting essay on the Apple website entitled “Thoughts on Music”. It describes how he…
Continue reading →U2’s business practices
For many, many years we have admired U2’s business practices. This band has succeeded in not only writing and recording multi-million selling albums and lucrative…
Continue reading →Mass Debate Online
If you love a bit of a verbal stoush, check out ConvinceMe.net. I haven’t tried it yet but I like the idea of it. Not…
Continue reading →“Participation is the new consumption” – from Trendwatching.com
participation is the new consumption I LOVE IT. Consumption has consumed itself. Nothing is original. Affluence has become affluenza. The only thing which is original…
Continue reading →EMI = Every Mistake Imaginable
The past few weeks have been somewhat tumultuous in the music industry, with the departure of two of the music industry’s best regarded executives, David…
Continue reading →Traditional media are n00b5 – gaming is a PHENOMENON
WOW Burning Crusade is out. it’s very, very big. this is bigger than any film release of this year. The traditional media is slow to…
Continue reading →Toy Stores are really wonderful places – for an adult
The joy of walking into a toy store as a kid. Is there anything in adult life that approximates that pure open horizon, unlimited ecstasy…
Continue reading →Signatures and other email etiquette
How do you read email signatures? Is “Thanks and regards” your preferred poison when a simple “thanks” will do? Or is it a “Yours Sincerely”…
Continue reading →JJJ – The Secret Station
JJJ thought they’d “do a MySpace” and exclusively promote a Jet concert on the banks of the Yarra at the last minute. The concert was…
Continue reading →How to be Interesting
This is most likely the most interesting blog post I’ve seen in a long time, russell davies: how to be interesting I would have added…
Continue reading →The ATO is planning on taxing gold farmers?!
Virtual world: tax man cometh – BizTech – Technology – theage.com.au The Australian Tax Office is with it… In another sign that the virtual worlds…
Continue reading →Wired’s lesson: “Let everything happen and measure it”
The Editor of Wired, Chris Anderson, has come out with this very interesting perspective, echoing what I was saying earlier in the week: He described…
Continue reading →What if the every band in the world could record one album only?
I was reading one of Russell Davies’ excellent blog posts when I found this great, great thought. What if every band ever was only able…
Continue reading →My piece for Crikey on French talent woes at the FIFA World Cup 2006
I had the great pleasure of attending Switzerland vs France at the Gootleib Daimler Stadion in downtown Stuttgart. What a wonderful atmosphere. The World Cup…
Continue reading →Finally, iTunes is in Australia
I love it, iTunes Music Store has arrived in Australia! It’s great that the best and pretty much only decent digital music shop has been…
Continue reading →KaZaA vs the world – digital downloads vs legal eagles
Sharman Networks, the owners of the KaZaA P2P file-sharing software, has been sued by a collection of record companies in a civil case in Australian…
Continue reading →Welcome to the New Economy Part Two: CDs are dead
The CD is dead. When will the record companies wake up and smell the coffee? In one of my earlier posts I spoke of how…
Continue reading →Shock and Awe – John Peel OBE 1939-2004
Legendary figure of the worldwide music industry, Mr John Peel OBE has died suddenly while on holidays on South America. John Peel has been a…
Continue reading →A New Medium?
Robbie Williams released his Greatest Hits album on Monday, which was released on a multimedia card (MMC) format for the first time. Is it the…
Continue reading →A thought about the modular economy
I had a thought about the “modular economy”. Look at the entertainment industry, where large groups of totally outsourced skills come together to work on…
Continue reading →Aussie Hip Hop – The True School
American Hip Hip is lost. The birth of Hip Hop, the expression of ultimate aspiration against all odds, has been perverted by the new school,…
Continue reading →Free trade is music to my ears
The fear and loathing which has poured from the creative industries about the upcoming Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US is an ill-informed and…
Continue reading →The Dinosaurs of the Recorded Music Industry Must Evolve or Perish
There was a time when music companies objected to the playing of music on the radio. Instead of seeing early radio technology as a positive…
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