by Tom | Jun 12, 2009 | Reading
Bad stats, maybe. As Ben says, home taping didn’t do it, neither recordable CDs and nor will the internet. As I keep banging on about (and now the research supports): we want to pay for music, not for music companies. As Charles Dunstone says: you can’t...
by Tom | Jun 12, 2009 | Reading
Nice article from Charles Arthur helping to shine some light on a number of debates. Journalism is a process, nothing more. There is a business wrapper around it called publishing which makes it profitable and sustainable (or not). We shouldn’t confuse or...
by Tom | Jun 12, 2009 | Reading
Lots of people will love Songkick. I haven’t really done enough gigging to benefit, I guess. However, I could get Pegasus going on classical gigs. Now that could work… And what about the same thing for plays?
by Tom | Jun 11, 2009 | Reading
Can universities survive in their current form? Large classes and lecture-based broadcast teaching seem at odds with a) the value of university in teaching you how to learn and how to analyse and b) the way the younger generations use the knowledge available on the...
by Tom | Jun 11, 2009 | Reading
I’ll back a call for reducing fund management fees: though most of ours are underwater post recession, so it’s even more ironic. Just as the concierge agency trying to charge a percentage fee on our building costs as a finders fee, it just feels wrong that...
by Tom | Jun 5, 2009 | Reading
My gut feeling (but who could trust that) says that decriminalisation has to be worth serious consideration for cost and benefit reasons.There is tantalising evidence from Portugal that using the savings from not prosecuting every user to provide free counselling and...
