Speaking: Festival of Faith and Music, Calvin College, April 2005

My topic at the Festival of Faith and Music is emerging trends in the music industry and how these might contribute to new ways of promoting artists. You can view the presentation here.

Resources

Recommended resources for further investigation include:

• audioscrobbler
  uses plugins to track listening habits and build charts and social groupings around that data
• last.fm
  personalised radio stations built from audioscrobbler data
• magnatune
  Next generation record label
• reinventing radio: enriching broadcast with social software
  bbc radio & music interactive presentation at the emerging technology conference
• enhancing radio
  blog entry about embedding the 'social bookmarking' service del.icio.us into BBC Radio 3 pages.
• future of music coalition
  seeking to develop new ideas about intellectual property and how the music industry can work
• the future of music: manifesto for the digital music revolution
  dave kusek and gerd leonhard (berkeley school of music) seek a new paradigm
• creative commons
  developing new 'licenses' to adapt copyright to modern demands

Further links: development blog, and all and sundry blogging.