Turning the past into a pile of ash
I first saw The Avett Brothers with my brother Kevin in Winston-Salem at an outdoor concert back in 2006. Tonight at 11:59 EDT they hit the stage at SXSW (listen live / archive). For those web and music jocks not yet exposed to The Avett’s I can think of no better statement for what you will experience (actually I wacked the title from NPR, but who’s counting).
Video here is from the Winston show courtesy YouTuber twicetreasured who ironically seems to also have a Chris Cook thing, a band I saw last night in Belmont and who’s playing the world famous Double Door Inn in Charlotte this Sunday, March 22, 2009. Go figure that synergy.
Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv5FFtU9N5k
Newspapers demand to be lied to – YouTube at 11:00.
Clay Shirky has a words for the newspaper industry, article.
Some select quotes:
When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.
When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution… They are demanding to be lied to.
When we shift our attention from ’save newspapers’ to ’save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work.
My money is on the OhMyNews.com citizen reporters model for local – not so sure about national, and bureau coverage but one has to think subsidized amateurs plays a role across the entire content spectrum.
Welcome to greenhorn journalism.
Please Ask a different question
In January at the Citi media conference Barry Diller announced (registration required) that footrolls were not the way forward for (Internet) video advertising. Maybe John Moore with Interpublic Group’s Mullen was able to talk some sense into the Interactive Wizard. Is it just me, or isn’t that a footroll ad for Dillers Ask.com?
Musta been one massive stack
Looks Microsoft finally made their way through the massive stack of resumes for their “we don’t do retail” retail push. Only took 6 months.
According to Giz, it’s now official – Microsoft will open retail stores. Of course some of us saw this coming.
Windows 7 – But does it include Java?
How ironic that Microsoft has to resort to Java to overcome their download-of-the-week woes. Industry veterans will certainly see this as a strange turn of events.
In case you’re looking to download the beta – The download / registration page is here. Leave it to Microsoft to “bury the lead”.. They have the highest tracking download in their history and they can’t even link it from their home page.
On the download, to get the download to start I had to view-source and extract/run the download URL to get things moving. I guess some things never change.
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