Comments on: Commentary: Are Record Labels Having A Sunni Awakening? http://www.waynerosso.com/2009/05/29/442/ Smart, entertaining and provocative commentary on happenings in the digital music and record industries. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:13:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: KattyBlackyard http://www.waynerosso.com/2009/05/29/442/comment-page-1/#comment-120 KattyBlackyard Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:51:59 +0000 http://www.waynerosso.com/?p=442#comment-120 Hi, gr8 post thanks for posting. Information is useful! Hi, gr8 post thanks for posting. Information is useful!

]]> By: Kelly Brown http://www.waynerosso.com/2009/05/29/442/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Kelly Brown Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:22:10 +0000 http://www.waynerosso.com/?p=442#comment-114 Great post! I'll subscribe right now wth my feedreader software! Great post! I’ll subscribe right now wth my feedreader software!

]]> By: Is The 80 Pound Gorilla Gaining Weight? | THE MUSiC VOiD http://www.waynerosso.com/2009/05/29/442/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Is The 80 Pound Gorilla Gaining Weight? | THE MUSiC VOiD Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:39:57 +0000 http://www.waynerosso.com/?p=442#comment-73 [...] Times last week suggested that the majors are starting to see the light (see the post on my blog “Commentary: Are Record Labels Having A Sunni Awakening?”). But, as the saying goes, “in the world of the blind the one-eyed man is king.” Let’s [...] [...] Times last week suggested that the majors are starting to see the light (see the post on my blog “Commentary: Are Record Labels Having A Sunni Awakening?”). But, as the saying goes, “in the world of the blind the one-eyed man is king.” Let’s [...]

]]> By: mark bjornsgaard http://www.waynerosso.com/2009/05/29/442/comment-page-1/#comment-59 mark bjornsgaard Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:16:49 +0000 http://www.waynerosso.com/?p=442#comment-59 "embracing" digital in the format most commentators suggest would only hasten the demise of labels - and they know this - contrary to what we all believe these guys ain't stupid - scared, but not stupid the game has moved way beyond simply "embracing" digital media - what the hell does that mean anyway? Use facebook more effectively?! Send more tweets? As Tim O'Reilly and Tim Berners Lee amoungst many others have been suggesting for years - the future is about data http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVFY52CH6Bc Figure out how to harness the data labels have available to them - and you can start to believe they have a role in the future. As it turns out its actually pretty easy - Billy Beane did it for baseball 15 years ago - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabermetrics we have a solution http://www.slideshare.net/savioursofpop/musimetric-labels-presentation - we just need to find someone running a major with the balls to let us implement it... “embracing” digital in the format most commentators suggest would only hasten the demise of labels – and they know this – contrary to what we all believe these guys ain’t stupid – scared, but not stupid

the game has moved way beyond simply “embracing” digital media – what the hell does that mean anyway? Use facebook more effectively?! Send more tweets?

As Tim O’Reilly and Tim Berners Lee amoungst many others have been suggesting for years – the future is about data http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVFY52CH6Bc

Figure out how to harness the data labels have available to them – and you can start to believe they have a role in the future. As it turns out its actually pretty easy – Billy Beane did it for baseball 15 years ago – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabermetrics

we have a solution http://www.slideshare.net/savioursofpop/musimetric-labels-presentation – we just need to find someone running a major with the balls to let us implement it…

]]> By: DigitalCavemann http://www.waynerosso.com/2009/05/29/442/comment-page-1/#comment-43 DigitalCavemann Fri, 29 May 2009 16:46:07 +0000 http://www.waynerosso.com/?p=442#comment-43 The record companies will never stop file sharing. Look at the Pirate Bay...has anybody stopped using it? No! But they will never be reasonable...they will come up with some other stupid schemes like "partnering" with unnamed ISP's to track the use of p2p users. What utter lunacy! Get with the program Labels! Analog is dead embrace the digital frontier! www.digitalmancave.mypodcast.com The record companies will never stop file sharing. Look at the Pirate Bay…has anybody stopped using it? No! But they will never be reasonable…they will come up with some other stupid schemes like “partnering” with unnamed ISP’s to track the use of p2p users. What utter lunacy! Get with the program Labels! Analog is dead embrace the digital frontier! http://www.digitalmancave.mypodcast.com

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