netlabels and webcasting contrasted with on-demand- July 14, 2008 Here are David Porter&8217;s calculations on the health of webcasting as a business: Internet radio revenues, however, were estimated at a mere $92,000,000 not so impressive. A quick bit of math is revealing: $92m4.85bn = $0.0190 per hour. That is to say, revenuehour was just shy of 2 cents. Unfortunately, the ...http://blog.gonze.com/2008/07/14/netlabels-and-webcasting-contrasted-with-on-demand/ reactions to ad-sponsored music- July 11, 2008 My earlier blog entry on the economics of ad-sponsored on-demand music was reblogged on Silicon Alley Insider. One thing that I should point out is that SAI did some rewrites and though these were mainly improvements to tighten up and clarifying the writing, the new headline is something I would never say: Ad-sponsored music won&8217;t ...http://blog.gonze.com/2008/07/11/reactions-to-ad-sponsored-music/ song page manifesto- July 9, 2008 The place for a dedicated song page is in the media player. Media players need to be extended to have the ability to show a web page associated with a song; they should always show the web page, and shouldn&8217;t require the user to take action. Listening to media in a media player ...http://blog.gonze.com/2008/07/09/song-page-manifesto/ clean netlabel highlights- July 8, 2008 The site Phlow-Magazine is a slick compilation of activity in the netlabel scene. The netlabel subculture is growing a layer of editorial filters around the inner core of musicians (who came first) and publishers (who came second). I wonder whether a bigger market would be reached by emphasizing or downplaying the idea of &8220;netlabels.&8221; Emphasizing it ...http://blog.gonze.com/2008/07/08/clean-netlabel-highlights/ dedicated page for a song- July 8, 2008 I have set up a dedicated page for my version of the song &8220;Frog in the Well.&8221; It is an experiment in packaging for internet music, since a bare MP3 lacks all the chrome that makes a CD an entertaining thing to open up. Design notes &8211; To draw you into the page and ...http://blog.gonze.com/2008/07/08/dedicated-page-for-a-song/ |