It's impossible to keep track of even purely music-related iPhone apps, but we try. Gizmodo point to US satellite radio network Sirius shortly coming to the iPhone, although they do question why anyone would bother subscribing when they can get, say, Last or Slacker for free...
Music analyst/strategist Keith Jopling takes a keen and unflinching look at marketing yourself as a musician in the digital age, taking a pop at some daft myths along the way. We liked his two upfront questions:
1. Just what do you do to get your music heard? and;2. Just how long do you intend to last?
Our friend Daniel Nathan of totallyradio is in "print" again... this time talking to the Guardian about how technology can help local radio weather the economic storm.
Nine Inch Nails continue to try out new digital business models with each release - the correct approach at this stage of the game, in our view. They're releasing The Slip as a free PlayApp download with a Creative Commons licence.
There's already a lot of opprobrium - or at least scorn - building in response to Lord Carter's Digital Britain report, and apparently with good reason: the inevitable - but unworkable, indeed, ultimately meaningless - promise to crack down on file sharers (elimination of 80% of illegal file sharing in the UK by 2011 - really?) , the commitment to "upto" 2 Mbps broadband connectivity for every household in Britain by 2012 (wow!), the eschewing of Obama's content neutrality for ISPs and on and on...
But it was Culture Secretary Andy Burnham's assertion that "Britain has always led the world in content creation - with the best music, films and TV" that made me laugh out loud. I guess he has to say it, but worryingly, I suspect he means it. (Sarah pointed out that the irony here that he could legitimately have claimed British radio and video games as world leading but somehow managed not to... )
We did like the Reg's observation that "Carter baffled many in the room with his description of the new USC as "an aspiration to a floor of up to 2Mbit/s".
Also in the Guardian, Negroponte on the trials and tribulations of One Laptop per Child...
...and Charles Arthur on Spotify.
Oh, and while we're on that subject, Techcrunch point out that the record industry isn't necessarily feeling as well-disposed towards the streaming music service as the rest of us.
Oh and here's a BBC News report on various approaches to lo-fi and/or DIY approaches to music "TV".
Simon
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