I’m No Antidigitalist: a song about GormanGate

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Last week, as I was reading and responding to everyone’s responses to Michael Gorman’s blog posts, I re-read a couple of the posts myself… and this phrase from his earlier “blog people” article started running through my head … and wouldn’t leave.So I did what any self-respecting closet musician would do on his [...]

Free Online Music “Store” coming in December…

Just saw this… a start-up named SpiralFrog is planning to launch a (drumroll please) new-fangled music service that will be based on advertising revenue rather than on .99 cent downloads. Yes, you read that right - as in FREE music. Universal Music is backing them (that’s big). Look for them in December.
Libraries, dust off your [...]

Music 2.0 and DRM

Interesting post on the Social Software blog: Yahoo music exec says maybe DRM should be ditched.
I’m all agreed that DRM doesn’t work in libraries - if it disappeared, then iPods would work with services like Overdrive and netLibrary. But look at some of the thoughts the author has about how to assign value (if the [...]

Music Access and Libraries - Still a Long Way to Go!

I just got off the phone with a rep at Real.com’s Rhapsody music service. What an interesting conversation! First off, here’s what I told the rep we (and probably other libraries) wanted in a digital music service:

digital music for library patrons
ability to listen in the library
ability to listen at home, using the library’s authentication
ability to [...]

Libraries Make the Digital Music Weblog page

Here’s an interesting short story on digital audiobooks and format wars, from the Digital Music weblog.
They bring up the issue of how some audiobook companies use DRM technology to make the book “automatically expire” after three weeks or so - just like how you return a book when it’s due. Of course, the DigitalMusic blogger [...]

Remixed Information Rap

 

There’s always a highly entertaining (and useful) Dead and Emerging Technologies forum at the Computers in Libraries conference. This year, D. Scott Brandt (who usually moderates these forums) started us off with a fun spoof of the “I’m too sexy” song - but he turned it into a rap about technology. It was pretty funny.
So, [...]