Massive, quite useful presentation from Paul Adams at Google

"What should other artists do? Well, I'm not really bothered. The sad truth is that almost everything almost every artist tries to earn money will fail. This has nothing to do with the internet, of course. Consider the remarkable statement from Alanis Morissette's attorney at the Future of Music Conference: 97% of the artists signed to a major label before Napster earned $600 or less a year from it. And these were the lucky lotto winners, the tiny fraction of 1% who made it to a record deal. Almost every artist who sets out to earn a living from art won't get there (for me, it took 19 years before I could afford to quit my day job), whether or not they give away their work, sign to a label, or stick it through every letterbox in Zone 1."

Quick summary of the Tom Taylor, Bobbie Johnson, Paul Ford media/shipping discussion plus nice reiteration on (no) comments: "I don’t think we should be looking at comments to see conversations. It isn’t much of a conversation when the same person determines the subject matter of every dialogue. The best online conversations I’ve seen have been blog to blog: somebody posts something on their blog; somebody else feels compelled to respond on their own blog. The quality of such a response is nearly always better than a comment on the originating blog for the simple reason that people care more about what appears on their own site than on someone else’s."

"Let's ruin E-ON's pathetic online attempt to rescue their ailing brand." Oops.

"Explore 44,500 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments"

"Journalism has been crowdsourced before, but it’s the scale of the Guardian’s project — 170,000 documents reviewed in the first 80 hours, thanks to a visitor participation rate of 56 percent — that’s breathtaking." Brilliant.

Ex-Jockey Slut types in new online music magazine venture.

"An increasing number of mobiles are coming with flat-rate data access as standard. Remember how much more eagerly we used the net when we stopped paying by the minute? Stop the cost clock and mobile booms. Checking mail, synching calendars. Using geo-tagging and location aware services to see what's cool and nearby for a quick impulse buy." No more in the article than that. Ranty counterpoint in the comments.

Library agnostic lightbox script.

"Plex bridges the gap between your Mac and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media."

E-commerce rich media gubbins.

"A £50 million creative fund that'll see us work with partners across the UK to kick-start a wave of investment in public service digital media."

2gether Festival London July 2-3: "will bring together over 400 radical innovators practical visionaries from a wide range of fields to focus on how using digital technologies we can generate real social benefits."

"2008 may well also be the year of Peak Advertising. In the West at least. The year in which there is the most advertising. And after that there's less and less each year."

Not a particular fan of Reznor but there's some smart opinions in this piece.

"In this crazy business environment, marketing is ready to be reinvented. No one is sure to who is taking the lead to drive this change."

"The way Google organises knowledge raises fears that in the process understanding will be crushed. Tony Curzon Price identifies a problem and points to a solution."

"Remix cinema. You can be part of a groundbreaking new project to fund, make, and distribute a £1 million film using the Internet."

"In summary, there's no easy solution. There's a big opportunity (though very tough job) for someone to come up with a meaningful metric that weighs a bunch of factors."

"I picture myself as having all these pipes running into my head, and each one is a piece of technology that's a pressure connection - something that is feeding me content that needs to be processed, and that puts some pressure on my mental well-being."

"Features program listings for hundreds of public radio stations around the world."