tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102105272024-03-14T05:40:27.506+00:00Michael Bayler, innovation marketing strategist and founder of The Rights Marketing Company, comments on new trends in communications, media and entertainment. And other stuff ...Michael Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13008016690438239622noreply@blogger.comBlogger321125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10210527.post-1137148070214047702006-01-13T10:27:00.000+00:002006-01-13T10:27:50.370+00:00

... The Rights Marketing blog, which will explore the same issues, but focusing more on Media 2.0, and using WordPress. Metacoms will remain hosted here as an archive until I can figure out how to move it! Any ideas, please let me know, I'd love to hear from you ...

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A music label and website called Magnatune is attracting all sorts of attention in the blogosphere as the most acceptable online model. Their strapline hits the spot, while perhaps coming across as a little shrill: "We're not evil" ... now, who couldd they mean?

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BBC NEWS "The war in Vietnam is often referred to as the first war on television, and the wars in Afghanistan and now in Iraq will be known as the first wars to be blogged. A new generation of soldier bloggers in the US, known as milbloggers, are both fighting in the field and writing about their experiences. It is opening up a new window on modern warfare and is creating a new genre of war-time

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CNET News.com "Customers who exchange their XCP CD can either download three albums from a list of over 200 titles, or claim a cash payment of $7.50 and a free download of one album. To claim this compensation, customers must return their XCP CDs to Sony or provide the company with a receipt showing they returned or exchanged the CD at a retailer after Nov. 14." Wow ... talk about winning hearts

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p2pnet.net "How does Organized Music get to victims? Lawyer Ray Beckerman, who's been working with Santangelo since the begining, explains: A lawsuit is brought against a group of John Does with the corporate headquarters of the ISP as the location of the lawsuit. But, 'All the RIAA knows about the people it is suing is that they are the people who paid for an internet access acount for a

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Performancing.com "Over the holidays I had a chance to talk to John Battelle of FM Publishing, a new but much discussed blog ad network that's currently in beta. FM has a whole bunch of high profile bloggers working with it already, and from what I can see it looks near to making a formal debut, so it was good to get some answers from the man himself."

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ABC News "Surprised he was, and so was Cambra. When her son opened the box for the high-tech toy, he discovered the iPod that should have been there wasn't. It had apparently been replaced with some kind of mystery meat." I name this product the AtkinsPod.

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p2pnet.net "p2p news / p2pnet: There's a story in the Financial Times, one of Britain's most reputable and influential newspapers, which gives a completely distorted impression of what's happening in the world of online music. It could almost have been written by one or other of the Big Four record labels' many and various PR-cum-enforcement units such as the RIAA, IFPI or BPI. Reading it, one

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Pew Internet & American Life Project Report "How Women and Men Use the Internet: Women are catching up to men in most measures of online life. Men like the internet for the experiences it offers, while women like it for the human connections it promotes."

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New York Times "Exploiting online message boards, music blogs and social networks, independent music companies are making big advances at the expense of the four global music conglomerates, whose established business model of blockbuster hits promoted through radio airplay now looks increasingly outdated."

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Pandora "It's hard for me to believe that it's been just 9 weeks since we launched Pandora. In that time you've created over 1 million stations, starting from 70,000 unique songs and artists. I really can't imagine a more gratifying response. Easily the best part of all of this has been interacting with many of you via email and in the blogosphere. Thanks for all the great product and music

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BBC NEWS "The over-50s are having an increasing impact on the UK music industry, a survey by the record labels' trade body and Age Concern suggests." Grumpy old farts on both sides of the table then ... :-)

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web2.wsj2.com "I know that many people are still struggling with what Web 2.0 means, are often confused by thinking it's purely a marketing term, or if you're like most folks, you haven't really heard about it yet. To those, I think this list will definitely help. And it's a good refresher for all of us Web 2.0 followers as well."

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adaptive path "Ajax isn?t a technology. It?s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. "

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WSJ.com "New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has subpoenaed at least three of the four global music companies as part of what one company described as 'an industry-wide investigation' into collusion on pricing of digitally downloaded music."

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BBC NEWS "A format war is looming and illegal downloads still outstripping legal ones by a ratio of three to one, despite a sustained legal onslaught by the music industry. For the record label, the battle is to persuade people to pay for the music they put on their machines. For consumers and critics of the way the music industry is handling the transition to digital music, the battle is to

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Free Press

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AdAge.comCourtesy of Adrants, oh glorious adbiz ...

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Adrants "As we endeavored to compile our list of the top ten sex-related advertising stories of 2005, we realized very quickly it would be impossible to limit the list to ten. After all, advertising and sex are so deeply intertwined it would be like coitus interruptus to place any limitations on such a project. So here, in no particular order, are the top sex-related advertising stories of 2005

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Read/WriteWeb

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Reuters.com"Media managers will get their hands dirty in 2006, experimenting with new and untested formats to find a better formula of reaching appropriate audiences."

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CNET News.com "International news agency Reuters is launching a pilot program on Tuesday that will allow blogs, news organizations and other online publishers to show Reuters news video on their Web sites."

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Year in review: P2P retreat, iTunes advance | CNET News.com

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CNET News.com "The Big Picture is a CNET News.com special feature, connecting the dots between stories, companies, and topics within the News.com site." If you haven't seen this yet, go there now. Familar in concept, but great to see a big media player getting so user-value focused.

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Washingtonpost.com "There has been a lot of speculation about what Time Warner should do to increase its lagging stock price, and the media giant appears to be nearing a decision on the future of one of the Washington area's most significant enterprises: AOL. Although I played a key role in bringing AOL and Time Warner together six years ago, it's now my view that it would be best to 'undo' the

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