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The Unreasonable Persistence of Performance – Digital Music Futures Part 1

By paul bambury

Last year, on FirstMonday, I wrote: “Many bands and artists take advantage of the net by using it to advertise their performances, at which they sell their CDs. This can be very effective and the major record companies are becoming less relevant to artists. However, despite the apparent success of aggregators like iTunes, few independent [...]

Pandora vs LastFM

By Chris Gilbey

I tried Pandora and LastFM about a year ago and for a while got pretty excited about both of them – mainly because of my ill fated venture in 2000, “Big Fat Radio”.   I listen to radio for talk rather than music so maybe I am not part of the target market. Fred Wilson has [...]