Let’s Bring Back Old Fashioned Recommendations
Recommendation engines aren’t about finding something you want to watch, it’s about keeping you watching.
Category: Digital Music
I Wonder What Amazon Will Do With Wondery?
One of the last big indie podcast producers has been purchased by Amazon. What happens next?
Will Spotify Share The Benefits Of Podcasting?
Spotify is in the business of capturing as many ‘listening minutes’ as possible. Can that approach also benefit podcasters?
Amazon’s Latest Step To Find Profit In Podcasting
Amazon can leverage podcasting to find more profit in another area of its empire.
Music, Metadata, And Money
Contribute to a song, the song makes money, you get paid. It sounds simple, but even in the 21st century there’s a problem.
Musical Time Capsules
What happens when you try to power up and look at the contents of your seventeen year old iPod? James Bareham fights Firewire cables, antiquity, and Thunderbolt dongles to find out. And the results? not just a bit of digital archaeology but a look back into the mind of his younger self: Though my Apple music devices changed over time, growing slimmer and more powerful with every iteration, much of the music on them remained the same. Seventeen years is a long time in both the worlds of music and technology, but not everything dates in the same way. Though
