Australia’s New Music Site Big Winner
September 27, 2006
It is fantastic to see the Australian Broadcasting Corporation doing so well with their new music sharing site Triple J Unearthed.
The site is modeled on CBC Radio 3’s NewMusicCanada.com
Four years ago I was invited to speak at the ABC’s annual radio meetings. The following year I was asked to come back and do some workshops with various groups in Sydney and Melbourne.
Linda Bracken who runs Triple J gave me office space (the run of the place really). Back in 2003 Linda was keen to get a version of NewMusicCanada running – mostly to serve their awesome Unearthed contest. So we spent lots of time talking about how to make it happen, what we’d learned creating and running NewMusicCanada (which we launched in 2000) and I spent some time with her technical team leads explaining how we had build things here.
Every now and then we’d exchange email and I’d ask how it was going, and she never lost sight of the goal - and if you’ve ever met Linda you’ll know that if she’s got her mind set on something, it’s going to happen.
Last July they soft-launched Triple J Unearthed, and this week I got a note from her:
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unearthed has exceeded even my grand visions for its popularity ….in the first month it was launched it has over 10 000 tracks from 5000 bands….over 10 000 people visit each day ….we are actually overwhelmed by its success…the buzz here in the music community is fantastic … we are still getting around 200 tracks per day ! I think everyone in Australia with a guitar has uploaded surely. |  |
It’s a great tribute to the team at Triple J that they’ve doing so well - and I’m thrilled to have had a tiny part to play in it.
LimeWire Counter Sues RIAA
September 26, 2006
I wonder who actually has more clients these days - RIAA or LimeWire. Game on…
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Lime Wire LLC yesterday filed its response to the RIAA lawsuit against it, and the company plans to mount a vigorous defense. Instead of simply defending themselves, Lime Wire has gone on offense and countersued the music labels for anti-competitive activities, illegal restraint of trade, tortious interference, and deceptive trade practices.
Full Story here and here |
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Every Dog Needs a Trick
September 26, 2006
This is a pretty good one.
More TVs than People
September 21, 2006
Another American claim-to-fame. The average American home now has more TV’s than people, 2.73 TV sets per household.
Same study says average person (in the US) watches 4 hours 35 minutes of TV a day.
A Good Reason to Get Some Vinyl Again
September 21, 2006
Back in the day when I had a few thousand (vinyl) record albums, my pride and joy was a Rega Planer turntable. It had a glass platter and one switch - on/off. It was a thing of beauty in form and function.
Like the albums, its long gone.
Seeing this new turntable from Rega brought it all back. I have no inclination to start collecting vinyl again, but somehow my iPod looks lame and tacky all of a sudden.
Virgin Red Goes Green
September 21, 2006
Richard Branson’s putting cash on the table to fight global warning. Profits from his travel firms could amount to 3 billion dollars.
Full story here from BBC.
And is it just me, or is that picture of him and Bill Clinton just a wee bit creepy ?
Zimbabwe internet woes
September 20, 2006
What happens if an entire country fails to pay its internet bandwidth charges ?
Chaos apparently.
It’s happening right now in Zimbabwe.
There’s an interesting bit at the end of the article about how the telco grows tobacco so it can pay its internet bill.