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!