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		<title>Trick Needs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paranoia strikes deep in the heartland.  Cheap Trick's Manager Dave Frey's scattered post on TuneCorner slathers random fear and panic over many of the tools driving the new music market.  Some of this is an instinctive response to new fortunes built atop pure information – the nagging, subtle certainty that aggregation is deeply wrong... it's like a built-in  social Miranda Warning: everything you say, do or write can and will be sold against you in the court of commerce.]]></description>
		<link>http://musicmediadesign.com/blogs/archives/453</link>
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		<title>2009 U.S. Music Purchases up for 5th Straight Year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nielsen Soundscan reports that 2009 U.S. Music Purchases up 2.1% over 2008 as Music Sales Exceed 1.5 Billion for Second Consecutive Year.  This news bears repeating, in light of the music industry&#8217;s constant, deafening whine: Total music purchases have in fact increased each year since 2005!  For the record, 1.01 billion music purchases were made in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicmediadesign.com/blogs/archives/450</link>
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		<title>Berklee Music &amp; Topspin</title>
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I&#8217;m not sure whether Berkleemusic&#8217;s course &#8220;Online Music Marketing with Topspin&#8221; is a more troubling development in the music industry or academia, but after Topspin&#8217;s major-label-like launch I have to wonder.  The biggest problem here, aside from an academic institution partnering to pimp a (fairly vaporous, deliberately obscure) corporation&#8217;s software, is in the fine print: Students [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicmediadesign.com/blogs/archives/444</link>
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		<title>Retrogression&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[vertigo_1990s: Torture Garden, Scream Boody Murder, Sex Device.
Wow.  I can&#8217;t believe anyone would bring up my old band 12 years after our last show.  While we were friends with Scream Bloody Murder, Torture Garden keyboardist Dave Arps later played in Sex Device, in our 4 piece era, and co-produced a couple tracks (maybe one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicmediadesign.com/blogs/archives/439</link>
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		<title>Forrester Tells Labels: &#8220;It’s the Consumer, Stupid&#8221; @Wired.com</title>
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Forrester to Music Industry: It’s the Consumer, Stupid &#124; Epicenter &#124; Wired.com.
[Note: the story linked above are part of an article paraphrasing a $500 Forrester research paper, not the actual source.]
Any reader of this site knows my take on the &#8220;conclusion&#8221; or whatever the headline&#8217;s relationship is to the story&#8230; &#8220;Duh!&#8221; No news there.
But the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicmediadesign.com/blogs/archives/436</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Free&#8221; Anderson Responds to Wharton Critique</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wired editor in chief and author of the controversial &#8220;The Long Tail&#8221; and &#8220;Free&#8221;, Chris Anderson responds succinctly to the much-hyped Wharton critique of his Long Tail theory in  The Long Tail blog.
I linked the sources so you can get the details from the respective horses mouths.  But I think Anderson&#8217;s ideas get a bad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicmediadesign.com/blogs/archives/434</link>
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		<title>hypebot: Forrester Study To Save Music Industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today in hypebot I read about a Forrester Study with a plan to save music industry.  I tried hard not to yawn because Forrester&#8217;s ideas are as important as they are obvious: the status quo is unsustainable and change is required.  The suggested changes are, at this point in time, pretty conventional:

Staggered release schedules for maximum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicmediadesign.com/blogs/archives/429</link>
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		<title>Juggernaut Brew: Digipacks vs. Jewel Box</title>
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Digipacks vs. Jewel Case &#8211; majority decision reached.
Juggernaut Brew is a great industry blog coming from the UK, asking tough questions and working them through to solutions.  In this post, he takes on the often dissed jewel box (pictured above).
Before our launch, MusicMediaDesign and it&#8217;s parent, The All Night Party, held some focus groups on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicmediadesign.com/blogs/archives/417</link>
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		<title>Spin Magazine To Wussy: 4 Stars, No Waiting</title>
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We can&#8217;t resist noting when a local artist or band does good in the World Outside.  Spin and Rolling Stone reviews are pretty rare for Cincy bands on small labels.  But not for Wussy! 
Wussy, &#8216;Wussy&#8217; (Shake It)  &#124; Spin Magazine Online.
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		<link>http://musicmediadesign.com/blogs/archives/401</link>
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		<title>Dynamic Range Strikes Back!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Create Digital Music has a piece on the latest front in raging Loudness Wars, which I highly recommend: Dynamic Range Strikes Back with Campaign, Plug-in.  Campaigning against hyper-limited, over-loud CDs is nothing new, and largely a failure.  CDs, and now MP3s, just keep getting louder.  The problem is there&#8217;s no way to know what you&#8217;re missing, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://musicmediadesign.com/blogs/archives/376</link>
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