Geeks and Musicians Unite at Pandora Town Hall Meeting
Part One
Over the next several days I'll be posting reports on the Pandora Town Hall Meeting that took place last night at MIT Building 26 (MIT folks: you people need to name your buildings already, what is this, a dystopian futurist sci-fi novel?). While many of you may still be unfamiliar with Pandora, if you're at all interested in music or technology I urge you to at least give it a try and tell me what you think. Instead of simply writing an extended, serialistic promotion of the service, Pandora and the Music Genome Project open up (like a box, see?) a whole range of questions, many of which were addresses last night by one of Pandora's founders, Tim. And while I'd like to think you would just take my word on that, it's only fair to entice you with a preview:
Does digital music distribution give musicians (independent or just indie-label) a leg up against big record labels?
What characteristics of music do most listeners base their musical choices on?
How can small media outlet companies like Pandora remain neutral of the influence of Major Media?
All of which I find fascinating, relevant, and hell, I spent two and a half hours with the rest of the MIT nerdosphere last night -- I might as well make good use of it. Check back soon for the first part.
In the meantime, go to my show tonight.
Over the next several days I'll be posting reports on the Pandora Town Hall Meeting that took place last night at MIT Building 26 (MIT folks: you people need to name your buildings already, what is this, a dystopian futurist sci-fi novel?). While many of you may still be unfamiliar with Pandora, if you're at all interested in music or technology I urge you to at least give it a try and tell me what you think. Instead of simply writing an extended, serialistic promotion of the service, Pandora and the Music Genome Project open up (like a box, see?) a whole range of questions, many of which were addresses last night by one of Pandora's founders, Tim. And while I'd like to think you would just take my word on that, it's only fair to entice you with a preview:
Does digital music distribution give musicians (independent or just indie-label) a leg up against big record labels?
What characteristics of music do most listeners base their musical choices on?
How can small media outlet companies like Pandora remain neutral of the influence of Major Media?
All of which I find fascinating, relevant, and hell, I spent two and a half hours with the rest of the MIT nerdosphere last night -- I might as well make good use of it. Check back soon for the first part.
In the meantime, go to my show tonight.
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posted by Ian at 10/04/2006 12:17:00 PM
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