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The Changing Music Business: The Chart
We’ve all heard that the music business is changing, and here, from The Times Online, is a chart to prove it. The red line at the top is the revenue from sales of recorded music. The light green line below that is the revenue from live music. The dark green line below that, “PRS revenue,” is the revenue from royalties. Basically there’s more and more money being spent on live shows and, consequently, more money going… -
GOOD on StumbleUpon
A quick update: GOOD now has a profile on StumbleUpon, the internet exploration site. We’ve found it to be pretty useful (and fun). Our profile, in case you want to have a look at it, is here. -
LOOK: On the Road with Ethos Alliance
One of the worst environmental disasters in history, the “Amazon Chernobyl” refers to the roughly 17 million gallons of crude oil and the 18 billion gallons of toxic waste water that have leaked and spilled since Chevron-Texaco began excavating in the northeast region of Ecuador nearly three decades ago. For the region’s 30,000 indigenous residents, daily life is a humanitarian calamity, as tarnished water renders agriculture all but impossible, and chronic health problems are rampant and… -
What’s The Best Best of the Decade List?
Aughts! We hardly knew ye! Alas, we’ll soon leave you behind. For the next six weeks, however, anyone with an audience will be chronicling and evaluating the living hell out of you. Exhibit A: Newsweek’s attempt to condense all your happenings into seven minutes of video. Watch: It’s a compelling homage, if not a list per se, and it lacks the depth of something like the strangely fun retrospective You Aught to Remember. As far as… -
Change ads with the DoGooder plugin – Osocio, Social Advertising and Non-profit Campaigns
This is a lot like ad-art. It’ll replace your internet ads with messages from charities and nonprofits. Original article: Change ads with the DoGooder plugin – Osocio, Social Advertising and Non-profit Campaigns
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Happy 40th Sesame Street
Sesame Street turned 40 yesterday. Here’s a clip from the show of Grover and a kid exploring the essence of marriage. I think they hit all the most important points. Keep up the good work, guys. Via Boing Boing. … -
selling out or cashing in? a new paradigm for advertising
have people heard of Ad.ly. Pretty interesting to connect individuals and advertisers like this. Kind of paid word of mouth. You could voice potential concerns from an editorial integrity stand point, but you could also see a future where individuals get to endorse the brands they believe in and get paid for it. Just met the founder, and he seems to be a really good guy so I look forward to seeing where this goes… -
Digital World Explorer
The digital ethnographer Michael Wesch on the dark side of social media, what we learned from Iran, and why the future of the web depends on human interests—not market interests. As a graduate student in Papua New Guinea, Michael Wesch studied how the introduction of books and literacy changed government and society. Now, as a professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, Wesch examines how digital media is changing human interaction. His YouTube video “Web 2.0… -
First meeting for the “Create, Don’t Hate” billboard project
Seven designers/design studios connected with seven youth in a speed-dating session to getting to know each other, fast. Five (or so) minutes per person. It went fast and we were able to make the pairings of Designer/Student soon after. The event was held at p:ear in downtown. I’d have to say that, both groups were a little tentative at first but everyone loosened up and had a good time finding out about each other’s work. Maybe… -
Bloggers Behind Bars
Global Voices, defenders of free speech online, have launched a new tool called Threatened Voices that lets you look up where bloggers have been arrested or threatened by their governments. China, Iran, and Egypt look particularly bad. And here in the States, Elliott Madison was arresed for using Twitter to help G20 protesters evade the cops. Via Boing Boing.
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