music scene: New paradigm opened market to new music. The Toronto Star’s Christopher Hutsul on the real center of new music in Canada. “After last’s week’s Junos, it dawned on me that the only real threat to music in Canada is the ongoing glorification of pablum over art.” I think Hutsul overstates the impact of non-official downloads, but his comments on the overall environmental change in the music biz are right on the money.
Archives for April 2006
Anil Dash on Six Apart’s site:
How to keep blogs from scaring the hell out of people. I guess the question for people trying to sell blog services to companies is whether they’re out to impress their client or actually sell something.
From Apple:
Boot Camp public beta, which allows current Intel-based Macs to install and run Windows XP. I guess this ends a lot of speculation, right?
I followed an old link
in an announcement I put on this site to a conundrum press book launch and I find that Andy Brown’s great small press is turning 10 this year! There’s a party on Thursday, May 18 at the Mainline Theatre, 3997 St. Laurent at 8pm. They’re launching The Portable Conundrum at the party, a tenth anniversary anthology.
Michael Lenczner:
worried about the effect of ISF. The right guy asking the right questions.
