Posts from February 27, 2008

David Card | February 27, 2008, 10:17 PM
Missing Link for Music Marketing?
Intriguing disconnect from my panel at Digital Music Forum East this morning. Amidst the usual -- is it, what, 10 years now? -- running whine-fest about the major labels vs. the start-ups, I asked some of the New New Thing social media start-ups what they could offer to a label...( more )

David Card | February 27, 2008, 09:20 PM
RIP Bill Buckley
As rat-faced, conservative, WASP Yalies go (is that a redundancy?) he was a very funny and thoughtful one. I'll miss him....( more )

Zia Daniell Wigder | February 27, 2008, 01:56 PM
Global youth in the US
I ran one of my videoconferences this past Monday between young women in Tunisia and New York: the topic this week was the media. There were sophisticated discussions about balanced news coverage and freedom of speech, as well as lighter conversations on reality TV and social networking. Interestingly, all the...( more )

Thomas Husson | February 27, 2008, 01:41 PM
Mobile Internet Tariffs
Not a single conference or mobile event I attended in the last 3 years without media companies or Internet players complaining about mobile data plans. No doubt that non affordable and non transparent data pricing schemes have been a key barrier (but not the only one) to the uptake of...( more )

Thomas Husson | February 27, 2008, 01:35 PM
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m.facebook.com m.linkedin.com m.yahoo.com... .mobi, where are you?...( more )