Cory Doctorow does Clay Shirky, Larry Lessig at the same time

(via that canadian girl and via Cambridge Business Lectures - transcript of the video available on craphound)

Cory Doctorow is always worth watching: insightful, funny, often provocative and consistently knowledgeable. OK, so I’m a bit of a boingboing fanboy. And yes, the video was posted weeks ago, but I’m just now getting to it.

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Music Discovery

(So I’m a bit behind in writing up these entries. Never could get the hang of the unfiltered liveblog. The session wasn’t this morning, but last Friday. Unfortunately, I’m not sure the intervening time to reflect has improved my notes).

One of this morning’s sessions at Public Media 2007 was on music discovery: “how has the internet changed the process of music discovery for listeners.”

Panelists included Geoff Mayfield (Director of Charts and Senior Analyst, Billboard), Pinky Gonzales (Echo Music), and Ben Roe (RoeDeo Productions), as well as Bruce Warren (Assistant General Manager for Programming, WXPN) who ran the panel.

The panel started with a piece from “On the Media” about WBEZ’s decision to drop Jazz programming, and the fact that even many of the jazz aficionados they surveyed who admitted they didn’t actually listen to jazz on the radio.

This set the context for the conversation: what has replaced the radio as a mechanism for discovering new music?

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Jobs on DRM: Why wait for the major labels?

There’s been a ton of posts already on Steve Job’s open letter about DRM. At the risk of adding one more, I wanted to echo a significant point that seems to be getting lost in the celebration: what’s holding back Apple from acting on their beliefs?

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