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KEN HERTZ ABOUT MUSIC INDUSTRY TODAY

// July 15th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // conferences, speaker, Video

Ken Hertz is a lawyer who represents top talent in New York City. Many stars are signed to his firm which he represents. In this interview Ken talks about how the music industry has changed over the last 3-5 years, both the positive sides and the negative sides. He sees artists being more empowered and creating what he calls thier own 360 businesses. He discusses what he learned from the Picnic get together in New York and how the internet has created a new “Virtual Fame Chart” for artists. For more interviews I made at Picnic New York Salon, check here.

Social Network fatigue? Proxy Networking the answer

// May 21st, 2009 // No Comments » // conferences, speaker, Technology, thought, Work

Last week at Webcom in Montreal I met a lot of great people, and saw some old friends. One of the friends I got to catch up with is Marc Canter. Now Marc has always been ahead of the curve. He was making the first synthesizers himself. He created Director to be able to create his multi-media musical extravaganza art pieces and performances. Director later became Flash and then Macromedia (now Adobe). Since then he’s been doing a lot as well as building the first social networks that we know today.

Marc has been a Paul Revere when it comes to open information, and allowing the users to choose what information goes where rather than the networks we give the information to. When I traveled to MIPTV a couple years ago we shared a cab from Nice to Cannes. While in the cab I asked him why he was doing so much work for Open internet and information. He told me that because he made Flash proprietary, he was paying for his sins now by going the other way. I guess it is kinda like when a smoker stops smoking, they are worst non-smokers than the people who never smoked.

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Canada here I come

// May 12th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // conferences, digital lifestyle, life, liveonline, speaker, Technology

Today I am traveling to Montreal Canada for a few days to talk at the WebCom 2009 conference. At this conference I will talk be talking about our digital identities and how we need to preserve them or not for future generations. Hopefully I will have a video to post of it afterward. If you are in Montreal, the session I will be giving is for free tomorrow. Have a look if you are in town.

BlogArt

// May 12th, 2009 // No Comments » // art, conferences, digital lifestyle, entertainment, theater, Vlogging

Later this year at Theater Spui in Amsterdam Den Haag is Blog-Art. I am really excited to see how this event unfolds so that we can see the art that is Blogging and Vlogging. It is an artform that many are forgetting about in their quest for SEO domination.

blog-art work in progress (wip) apr09 from Marco Raaphorst on Vimeo.