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Giz: Record Labels: Change or Die

It’s a lousy time to be a record label. Profits are tanking, bands are angry—OK Gojust ditched EMI—and YouTube and BitTorrent changed the game. Still, some labels are transforming themselves to help musicians in the digital age.

“Change or Die” may sound like hyperbole, or an idle threat, but for the music business, the two alternatives have never been more real. EMI may very well go extinct in the coming months, and all of the major labels are fighting losing battles. But all is not lost.

The traditional role of a record label, in the broadest sense, is to bankroll a band until they start making lots of money, at which point the label gets to keep most of it. They own the master recordings a band makes, and by taking on this ownership they put all of their resources behind selling said recordings…

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Brilliant guy makes his resume out of a Google Maps page.

Brilliant guy makes his resume out of a Google Maps page.

Why Larry Ellison hates Cloud computing - Funny

Chart: Unsolicited A few months back, the Caltrans Performance Measurement System (PeMS) opened up a brand spanking new forum where people could discuss how they used the group’s traffic data. They created an email list to tell everyone about the new forum. The problem is that PeMS used a single address to email everyone. So when someone “replied all,” he would in turn email every single person on the list. From FolowingData

Chart: Unsolicited

A few months back, the Caltrans Performance Measurement System (PeMS) opened up a brand spanking new forum where people could discuss how they used the group’s traffic data. They created an email list to tell everyone about the new forum. The problem is that PeMS used a single address to email everyone. So when someone “replied all,” he would in turn email every single person on the list.

From FolowingData

The New York Time video on the Evolution of Olympic pictograms wins and fails.

Think like a statistician – without the math | full article here See the Big PictureWith that said, it’s important not to get too caught up with individual data points or a tiny section in a really big dataset. We saw this in the recent recovery graph. Like some pointed out, if we took a step back and looked at a larger time frame, the Obama/Bush contrast doesn’t look so shocking.

Think like a statistician – without the math | full article here

See the Big Picture
With that said, it’s important not to get too caught up with individual data points or a tiny section in a really big dataset. We saw this in the recent recovery graph. Like some pointed out, if we took a step back and looked at a larger time frame, the Obama/Bush contrast doesn’t look so shocking.

WOW - “OK Go” Built the Craziest Rube Goldberg Machine Yet for “This Too Shall Pass” and here how it was done.

What people are really buying online?

What people are really buying online?

JESS3 / The State of The Internet

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