Slide.com rocks - they even had a great track by one of my favorite artists, Alanis Morissette, "Underneath" which I think is a perfect fit for my slides. Whoever licensed this to Slide.com - well done, and brilliant marketing! The Music is not auto-on btw - so hit the PLAY button (i.e. speaker icon); it's worth it.
A lot of people have asked me to compile what I think are my best posts from this blog... so here they are, starting from April 2008 to today (and yes, I will try to keep this updated). Enjoy & Share. 1.5MB PDF
gerd_leonhard_media_futurist_best_blog_posts_4-9 2008.pdf
In a nutshell, this is what I do... according to Wordle (which turns text into visualized tags) - see the page on Wordle
Good stuff here: Pics and audio from Chinwag Live: Micro Media Maze | Chinwag - the UK's leading community media company for the new media industry.
Listen to the podcast, part 2, which starts with my comments, right away: "....It used to be Control equals money, now it's TRUST equals Money..." A good debate follows here. This was a cool event. Some free beers, too;)
Good comment from Jemima Kiss at the Guardian
"Futurist and author Gerd Leonhard had a good take on the question of who owns user-generated content. Sites like MySpace and Last.fm do produce content, he said, but it's not the music and the video - it's the clicks and the community...."
First and foremost I am delighted to be able to offer all of my loyal blog readers the printed i.e. dead-tree version of my new book, Music2.0
at a seriously reduced price of 24.95 Euros (rather than 39.95). This
offer expires on June 1, 2008; so be sure to go to this special offer page to order your copy before that date. If you prefer to order via Amazon.com it's now available
there, as well (but without the discount). Check out the book's google juice hereAnd... of course, here are some funny videos I know you've been waiting for:
A great new way of sharing what I read and write: Friendfeed ::: Gerd Leonhard - FriendFeed.
Dear Readers,
I have made the decision to seriously decrease the number of short blog posts and 'news / comment blurbs' in order to spend a lot more time on writing longer (and better) essays that can go a bit deeper than the average blog post. If there is one thing I have come to not like about blogging it may be the realization that it has gently pushed me into a different level and style of writing, i.e. into keeping it short and making sure that my posts are 'easy reads', in order to get more traffic and build a larger audience.
This is something that has been concerning me for quite some time now so I have decided to go ahead and try an experiment, starting immediately, and only publish longer essays and things that are more ambitious in terms of the reader's attention span (and my own writing standards). This means you will hear less from me, going forward, but when you do, it will hopefully be worthy of your serious consideration!
Thanks for making a note of this. Comment below, if you wish.
Cheers, Gerd Leonhard
Stephen Hill took some nice shots at the Commonwealth Club event in San Francisco last night. This was a really good event with an interesting discussion - I think this will be streamed on NPR as well... check back in a few days. "Digital Rights & Wrongs" Panel - a photoset on Flickr.
With RICHARD FRENCH, CEO, Avvenu; Former Senior Vice President, Open Source Development Network
TED COHEN, Managing Partner, TAG Strategic; Former Senior Vice President, Digital Development and Distribution, EMI Music
LEE SHUPP, Vice President of Business Strategy, Cheskin; Board Member, Association of Professional Futurists; Musician
GERD LEONHARD, CEO, Sonific; Co-author, The Future of Music, Media Futurist
About time... Gerd Leonhard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Gerd Leonhard, Music & Media Futurist main site
My book "The Future of Music" (co-written with Dave Kusek)
Gerd Leonhard on why the Major Labels should drop DRM NOW
Music Like Water - the inevitable Music Ecosystem
Presentation on The Future of TV (ITV March 21, 2007)
My Videos on Youtube My Podcasts
Comments on "Music Industry threatens ISPs over Piracy"
Apple, DRM, Itunes, France.. and State Sponsored Piracy
My podcasts
The culture of participation in music
My other presentations (tons of pdfs ;)
Read about my new company, Sonific
(music widgets for blogs and social networks)
"iPod's impact wows Windows crowd " CNN Tech reports. More than 1 million Windows users bought Mac computers for the first time this year, according to a recent report. PC users are converting to Macintosh computers in growing numbers, thanks in part to the stunning success of the Apple (Research) iPod, the New York Post reported Tuesday. "The 'halo effect' is clearly alive and well," Charles Wolf, an analyst at Needham & Co., told the newspaper."
I know there is truth to this - I just dumped my windows machines for Apple, with a new PowerBook G4, and... it simply ROCKS.
This is me in a band in Germany, back in 1995, with Guitar Crusher and the Nitecats - hear for yourself (I am the Guitar Payer, the song is "Playing with my love"). Thanks to Hutch Hensle for hosting this site and these tracks.... we had some fun with this band!
Download gerd_leonhard_linkedin_profile_sept_2004.pdf
download this pdf or go to my LinkedIn page (registration required -- free). I really recommend LinkedIn!!
