Archive for April, 2007
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
PRobecast, Episode 9 of Topaz Partners' weekly podcast is up. I'm not on it this week, but posting it here anyway. As always, you can play it here on the Hipcast player in the sidebar or use the RSS feed below. thanks to Adam Zand for the notes.
This week's panel, ...
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
social media flyer2
Originally uploaded by douglashaslam.
This should be fun-- my Topaz Partners colleague Adam Zand and I will be speaking on a social media panel at UMass Boston tomorrow (April 5), in front of a "Master Class" of students, along with academic and former journalist Robert Picard.
This should ...
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
After my rejoicing about non-DRM music from EMI, I now come across this
from David Berlind of ZDNet. It sums up my feelings about DRM and why I can't, in general, support devices -- or software-- that use it.
Tech Tags: DRM digital+rights+management ZDNetipodDavid+Berlind
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Wow.
I'm blown away by Apple and EMI's latest announcement that the company will makes its artists' music available through the iTunes store without DRM (digital rights management, a.k.a. copyright protection). On top of that, the tunes will be offered at double the normal iTunes sound quality-- not CD quality, ...
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