Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Within five years, half of media will be created by non-professionals

--- Matt Corwine, writer, PR consultant, music critic, record producer, Web designer, DJ and lecturer; comments over coffee at Avante in Capitol Hill, 23 Feb 2006

Some more nuggets from the same meeting:
[I’m] selling things that can’t be digitized

Smart people treat recordings as a marketing expense

The past one hundred years is sort of a blip as far as [the structure of the] music [industry] is concerned

Dan Gillmor failed with Bayosphere because he was more interested in changing the news business than doing the news