Talking To The Music Industry Again, The Aspen Live Conference at FISTFULAYEN

This is the cusp edge, the one right after the bleeding edge. You get this or you don't.

If you don't, you appear irrelevant. Sorry.

It is a challenge of the truth, of culminating concepts and experience, to a music industry confab spelled out rather nicely, slowly, and with care.

If an exec does not get this, and have it on your desk, by Wednesday, citing applied Long Tail analysis, fire them!

To a Minister of Industry or Minister of Heritage, your minions should have this on your desk a week Wednesday. If you don't understand it, or get it on your desk, you have been reading or hearing the wrong people, for too long. This is where we are at today.

Its worth a second and third look. And serious thought, for the policy implication of serving up the mechanisms of the past, or serving up the mechanisms of the future.

This one slide by the way, is for a pal:



(From Talking To The Music Industry Again, The Aspen Live Conference at FISTFULAYEN, Presentation by Ian Rogers, VP, Video & Media Applications, Yahoo! Music)