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MOG Launches Ad Network, Columbia Records Exec Joins Board
Jason Kincaid currently works as a writer at TechCrunch. He grew up in Danville, California and later relocated to UCLA in Los Angeles, California, where he studied biology with a minor in ‘Society and Genetics’. You can reach him at jkincaidtc@gmail.com (he has other addresses too, so don’t worry if you have a different one). → Learn More Mog , a platform for music blogs with backing from Universal and Sony BMG, is launching an ad network dubbed MOG Music Network. In conjunction with the announcement, MOG is also adding experienced record producer Rick Rubin to its Board of Directors. MOG Music Network will allow partner blogs to embed widgets that display content from other blogs, and will also allow bloggers to have their own posts syndicated to Mog.com.
I'm here at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco where Neil Young, legendary rocker and the provider of the soundtrack to my early 20's, is announcing a very cool project with Sun Microsystems. For the first time, Young's entire collection of published media will be available for purchase, beginning today with the first of five volumes. Young's collected works after more than 40 years of making music and film would be a massive enough project - but the most interesting part of the announcement is that the media will be delivered on Blu-ray Disks that will check for updates when new content is available and download it to your local device. See also our interview with Neil Young , done after his keynote presentation. New media of all sorts will be added to the collection over time; Young encouraged the use of the PS3 gaming device as the optimal way to capture and enjoy the collection. You can see Young's website for the entire project here .
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Ditching DRM, new mobile offerings, pay-what-you-want and other alternative business models — one word to sum up activity in the digital music space in 2007: “experimentation”. In this post we look back at 2007 through the lens of last100’s coverage, highlighting some of the important stories and trends, and how they point to what we might expect for digital music in 2008. It all started back in February when Apple CEO Steve Jobs published his now famous open letter titled ‘ Thoughts on Music ‘. In it he explained the major labels’ thinking behind their support for Digital Rights Management (DRM), and that it hadn’t worked to stop piracy. Instead, argued Jobs, DRM was harming consumer interests, since, along with other restrictions, music bought from competing stores won’t play on all devices. In an impassioned plea to the major labels, Jobs wrote:
Digital music: 2007 year in review | last100
A VC: Moving The Goalposts
I love Billy Bragg, his attitude, his on the sleeves politics, his music, everything about him. So I read his op-ed in today's Times with interest. In it he argues that Bebo, which may or may not have built it's audience on the backs of artists who uploaded their music for free consumption, should have shared some of their $850mm payday with those artists.