meta-roj

there are statistics and year-in-reviews and awards shows and ceremonies and trophies and all kinds of other garbage that happens during this time of the year, and i’m certainly not going to object. but, i thought i’d put a slightly different spin on things, since this is a blog… and share the most popular directly-viewed posts from meta-roj (we just have to rank everything):

#1: (4139) walmart online. walmart gets into online music.
#2: (771) rafe esquith. inspiration and good work.
#3: (715) katherine pecore and stephanie haaser. bold individual action.
#4: (312) the evil empires, spotlight on walmart. walmart is what walmart is.
#5: (283) distributed blog modification. a hint of an immune system for net pathogens.
#6: (265) music monopolies. foundation piece on the nature of the business of music.
#7: (250) on determinism. foundation piece on the nature of managing innovation.
#8: (236) back to plan g. the third of three long pieces on a proposal to topple the riaa empire.
#9: (234) a music model at the high end. wild speculation on the future shape of pop icon creation.
#10: (229) the universal problem solving toolkit. the answer to all your problems (though not necessarily the best answer).
#11: (220) geek props for comment spam solutions. tools from james seng – the technical approach to blog spam.
#12: (217) the death of the cd is greatly exaggerated. gazing into the future of a so-called dead technology.
#13: (214) commercial applications license terms. the first, informal, attempt at a cost-imposing response to blog spam.
#14: (198) the recurring geek paradigm. just an observation.
#15: (192) cat 5 hurricanes by duration. serious weather.
#16: (192) monetizing blog spam. announcing the commercial applications license terms.
#17: (188) hope stout. an inspiration, at 12.
#18: (186) the deep blue beryl. rocks.
#19: (183) johnny cash. obituary.
#20: (167) fred berry. obituary.
#21: (167) tj knew. jefferson was a chocoholic.
#22: (162) distributed behavior modification. an immune response to formmail-script kiddies.
#23: (161) weedshare. looking at a music distribution model.
#24: (159) pretty beast. more weather drama.
#25: (158) patrick dalzel-job. obituary.
#26: (158) monetizing weather feeds. don’t think about this one too much.
#27: (146) the death of the album. the cd will live on, but the album as a format is in trouble.
#28: (143) defending the cd. like i said, the cd will live on. 🙂
#29: (133) you can’t afford all this music. foundation piece on attention markets in entertainment.
#30: (130) the light gets hotter on sunncomm. how not to run a company well (part 4).
#31: (130) wmd found! where you least expect them.
#32: (127) new music business models. a bit of a blogologue with barry ritholtz on music business models.
#33: (126) social networking sites. a warning to social software management.
#34: (125) i got blog spam for christmas. my present is your present. this one even has a happy ending.
#35: (117) the blogalog with tim oren continues. a bit of a blogologue with tim oren on music business models.
#36: (116) blog spam from tianjin province. my first blog spam.
#37: (111) creative prosecution. keep ashcroft away from my legal system.
#38: (110) testing bayesian filters. with a nod again to james seng.
#39: (109) square waves suck. just one thing that’s wrong with modern music production.
#40: (107) the hollywood model. adjusting to losing control of distribution channels.
#41: (106) itunes invention. invention or innovation?
#41: (105) finding value in music. you have three options…
#42: (105) barlow call to arms. i need to do more. you need to do more.
#42: (103) declining social capital in vc. what happens when you don’t trust the people you trust.

welcome to my dark little corner of the world. that’s all folks… i hope you had a great time… oh, and you look fabulous! let’s do lunch!

this is only the posts that got more than 100 direct hits, and does not include semi-direct hits that come in via trackback or comment scripts.