catching up on the music business models
as i wander through the darker recesses of the net, with my eye on music business models, i sometimes find radical new things. i keep meaning to dedicate some time and thought to the more-public (and already functioning) sites – the irates, itunes, magnatunes and such…. these have already gotten a pretty solid hashing in other places, so i don’t feel as much pressure to shine my own light on them…
i definitely get the feel of a rush in this field. maybe the blame lies at the feet of apple – itunes crashed through the gates and left the field wide open after they’d been locked down tight in the wake of napster.
before the blog, i would look at these things as they managed to capture my attention, come to my own set of conclusions, and drop myself a bookmark to come back and check in periodically. now, in the era of the meta-roj blog, i feel increasingly compelled to not just dash off an opinion “ok, this sucks, it’s irrelevant to my work” – but to think longer about each approach, and ultimately, to articulate it in some coherent fashion here – and generally with a bigger picture in mind.
this is probably a good exercise for me, but it’s much, much more time consuming than my old approach. i don’t know if i’ll ever catch up.
so, i’m going to put a little call out to the faithful readers to help me prioritize things a little. if you’re waiting with baited breath for my comments on your particular favorite music model, tell me. if you think i need to go back and revisit something – or visit something new, tell me. as much as this stuff is valuable to me, there’s no ignoring the idea that someone out there might also find it useful – so let me know what you’re thinking about, and i’ll move it up in the queue.
and sometime in 2007, look for my comments on itunes vintage 2003… 
oh, and yes, barry, i did get a message about itunes… i’ll get there!