Tag: music

Why Live Music is the Growth Engine of the Music Business

The music industry is abuzz with talk about Pandora’s acquisition of Ticketfly. It’s a “game changer,” everyone is saying. It’s the biggest news story of the week and it’s great news for Gigmor.   Why? Because it validates what Gigmor has been asserting since Day 1: with recorded music revenues declining and live revenues growing exponentially, other […]

Crowdsourcing: Pros and Cons

The term “crowdsourcing” always reminds me of the book title, “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” (which has been on my reading list for years). A Wired writer coined the term in 2006 by combining “crowd” and “outsourcing.” Wikipedia (probably the best example of crowdsourcing) defines crowdsourcing as “the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally […]

Digital Media

“We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.” –John Gardner A friend, M, and I were talking about the iPad the other night. I said I thought it was going to […]