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I’ve just signed up an alpha trial with Amie St, who’ve come up with an unusual model for acquiring and distributing music.
I quote from their blurb:

Amie Street is all about letting its users decide how they want to discover new, independent music, who they want to share it with, and how much it should cost.
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One of my all-time favourite books is Why You Lose at Bridge by S.J. “Skid” Simon. I’ve probably read it a dozen times; the last time (last week), it was after two decades of not playing any contract bridge, so I had to think about why I like it so much. Hence this post. Yes, [...]

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Thanks to Dave Morin for pointing this article out to me, suggesting that e-mail is losing its clout in a Generation M context. Like Dave, I love one of the quotes, from a Ms Kirah at Microsoft:

“Like parents, they try to control their children,” she says. “But companies really need to respond to the way [...]

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I guess it’s been a long time since Cluetrain. So long that someone could write 95 theses for “geek activism” and do so without mentioning Cluetrain. Shows I’m growing old.
This came to me via Cory. It’s worth a read. Gives you a flavour of some of the current emotion, particularly in the context of DRM. [...]

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