Recently I posted about the Fallacy Of Composition (which says that an advantage shared by everyone is not an advantage) and how it applies to digital music: If everyone can make and distribute music cheaply, the price they can charge goes down and they all make less money. It should apply to open source as well. Is there an escape route?

Thanks to digital media & the Internet, anyone can record their music and make it available to the world, and that's a good thing, right? Not necessarily for musicians. One way to explain why is in terms of the Fallacy of Composition, as cited by Jeremy Siegel in his new book The Future For Investors.

Yet another phishing email arrives, and it's bugging me more and more just to hit delete or the Spam button. I'd like a toolbar item (or a Favorite to add to my browser toolbar) that does something a little more useful with them--any suggestions?

Just days after Google Inc. refused a US Justice Department demand to turn over data on its customers' searches, the company has revealed it will cooperate with China in censorship. The Google marketing department is no doubt ready with a re-engineered company motto: Just Be A Little Evil.

Are we in a new kind of productivity crisis, one in which there is not too little productivity, but too much?

How did Steve Jobs convince record companies that he could save them almost four dollars per album--and that they they should give almost all of it to Apple? And: how much value does a Long Tail business model have to generate?

In Part 1 we looked at the revenues and costs of a moderately successful indie album release, and saw how hard it is for a record company to make money selling CDs. The promise of digital downloading is that it offers dramatically more efficient distribution. But a look at a comparison scenario using iTunes shows that the label may end up worse off.

Many of the arguments on emerging music business models seem to be based on speculation and assertions. So I thought I'd sit down and do some actual math, based on two sales scenarios for a moderately successful indie album: physical CDs vs. iTunes downloads. It's scary.

The MusicGremlin = iPod + WiFi - Computer. It moves us closer to the celestial jukebox ideal: it's a wireless portable music player that doesn't need a computer. It could be the next iPod--unless the next iPod is essentially a MusicGremlin.

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