Podcast the Third – New Media Music Distribution

Podcast the Third – 4.28.08

Tomblin and I had batted around a number of topics for discussion – possible election fraud, China/Tibet relations, Chinese control of the internet over its citizens, even Bjork – but we thought, in light of the recent activity on the musical front and this being our last formal podcast, we’d discuss the future of the music distribution and promotion.

From the seemingly newly converted(Metallica) to the always been there(Hot Bitch Arsenal), music is growing on the internet. It is an easy way to get your work to the largest number of people at very little cost with the potential for a lot of gain(see Nine Inch Nails).

It’s been fun the last few weeks, and I hope you’ll come back and see us in a few weeks after my semester ends and I learn to breathe again.

It’s a shame that our round table experiment didn’t work because in a discussion on the distribution of music via the internet, a round table would have been fun. In any case, take care and enjoy the show!

Digital Music & Subculture: Sharing Files, Sharing Styles by Sean Ebare (ARTICLE)

Recording Industry Association of American
riaa-2007-year-end-statistics (2006 data unavailable for upload currently)
Lower CD shipments, Digital revenue up – Digital Media Wire Article
The next two following links contain photos NOT SUITABLE FOR WORK
Hot Bitch Arsenal Blog
OFFICIAL WEBSITE for HBA
The HBA Skypecast on thesixtyone

Nine Inch Nails
Remix.NIN

Metallica
Live Metallica – The Vault
Rolling Stone interview with Lars Ulrich
Metallica embraces file-sharing? – Zeropaid article

Coldplay
Coldplay offers new single for free – Yahoo!

Coheed & Cambria
The Second Stage Turbine Blade(album)/The Second Stage Turbine Blade(comic)
In Keeping Secret Of Silent Earth:3
Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Vol 1: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness
Vignettes 1-6

Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Vol 2: No World For Tomorrow
Viral Videos
The Willing Well – Part 1

The Willing Well – Part 2

The Willing Well – Part 3

The Willing Well – Part 4

The Willing Well – Part 5


Characters from both the albums and as seen in Good Apollo, Vol 1 – courtest of Evil Ink Comics

Attribution:
The music in the intro and exit of the show was Leader of the Flea World provided by Hot Bitch Arsenal, under a Creative Commons license.

Wanna be on the radio?

Tomblin and I would like to invite our audience to participate in a round table discussion on New Media Music Distribution. This program is about discussing all things media, including but not limited too, how technology impacts our lives and helps us to tell stories.

If you have Skype, and want to play along, call me (Sprzzatura) and join in.

Hope to hear from you soon….otherwise, egg on our face.

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Please keep in mind that we will be using your voice, thoughts, and ideas for our own personal gain and you relinquish all rights to your identity(face), uniqueness, and by extension, soul, by participating.

Actual soul removal not included.

Hold tight, True Believers!

Elements of Madness will have an update coming in the next few days. In the spirit of openness that blogging is supposed to proscribe too, we have been unable to complete the last podcast in a timely fashion due to a death in the family(for 1) and illness(for the other).

Just so you have something to tide you over until we can record and post, I would like to recommend another podcast to listen to – WNYC’s Radio Lab. They do near-weekly podcasts on all manner of subjects(I recommend the one on War of the Worlds – fascinating).

Also, there has been an update to the Dark Knight viral campaign – the theory is a new trailer is going to be released sometime on Monday afternoon, but if you want to know for sure, go to whysoserious.com/itsallpartoftheplan and click on the portraits. If you live in one of the cities, and can participate, please report back here with what happened. We’d love a first-hand account of the revelry.

So with that, hold tight – we’ll back be soon.

And also, the new poster for The Dark Knight…..is it me, or is the Joker standing on the top of the roof?

Podcast the Second

Well, we promised to be more timely and considering we made this one only 3 days ago, we’re doing pretty good so far. I hope you all have had a chance to check out the first one and are ready for another round because here we go!

Podcast the Second – 4.2.08

On today’s show we explore the viral campaign for the upcoming release of Dark Knight on July 18th, 2008, we check back in on the Anon vs Scientology battle, discuss Best Buy’s generous $10 Million gift card giveaway, the format war, and of course, Wal-Mart.

The Dark Knight
Official Film Website
I Believe In Harvey Dent
I Believe In Harvey Dent Too – Don’t forget to highlight the whole page to get the message
Why So Serious?
Rory’s Death Kiss
Gotham Police Department
Acme Security Systems
Concerned Citizens For A Better Gotham
Citizens For Batman
Clown Travel Agency
The Gotham Times
TheHaHaHaTimes
Jane McGonigal’s writings on Alternate Reality Games

As of, 4/7/08, the newest additions to the viral include the announcement of Lt. Gordon as the head of the Major Crimes Unit of the Gotham PD and a video news conference featuring Rachel Dawes endorsing Harvey Dent.

Best Buy
Best Buy Offers $50 Gift Card to Anyone Who Purchased a HD-DVD Player
Motley Fool Thinks It’s a Good Idea
Popular Webiste Joystiq throws in their 2-cents
From the New York Time’s Blog – HD Owners, Some Stores Want To Make Amends

Format War
The Showdown: Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD – from March 27, 2005
Blu-Ray vs HD DVD: The Format Wars – from January 23, 2006
Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD – from February 19, 2008
Blu-ray winner by KO in high-definition wars – from February 20, 2008
No Blu-Ray for Microsoft, Digital Distribution the Way to Go – from March 14, 2008
Digital Revolution for Microsoft – from April 3, 2008

Digital Media Distribution Opportunities for the Film Industry – straight from the horse’s mouth.

Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart Demands Price Cuts On CDs
Apple Out-Muscles Wal-Mart

Apple Passes Wal-Mart, Now #1 Music Retailer

We hope you enjoyed the show this week, and please tune in next week for more media discussion. Send us your comments, your well wishes, or even money. Or back rubs. Can’t have too many of those.

See you next week!

Attribution: The music in this episode was Remember The Name provided by Fort Minor through a Creative Commons license.

Also, this show has no official affliation with any brand or sponsor as mentioned in the podcast. Such as Dodge or Samuel Adams beer……though if there are interested parties, we’re willing to talk.

This show NOT brought to you by:

FREEDOM (got to give what you take)

Once again BIG THANKS to the mighty brain of Micah Tomblin.

No more Torrent sites. No more Podomatic.

Here is the Elements of Madness maiden broadcast in all of its glory!!!

Elements of Madness – 3.23.08 – Podcast the First

(all we had to do was drop it to Mono and it dropped WAY under the 75M cap.)

Enjoy!

DON’T PANIC (doesn’t get more friendly than that….)

Morning folks -

It seems there was a glitch in our planning and WordPress does not support uploaded files larger than 75M…Podcast the First is just a shy bit over 90M. Our bad.

Tomblin has been wonderful and supplied a torrent to get to the podcast, and I have also gotten us an account over at Podomatic which gives us a shiny, brand spankin; new RSS feed – which you can find on the right. I have also removed the link for the podcast from WordPress, so if you keep looking for a link and wonder why – it’s not there anymore. But again, please feel free to use the torrent or the RSS feed on the right.

We do apologize for the inconvenience, and we promise to do better. Or at least, to attempt to do better. Promises should only be made by those who can deliver 100% of the time. We promise to try.

Podcast the second should be up at some point today if all goes well and the tubes don’t clog or something weird like that. Also, we’ve noticed that a lot of people have been coming to the site and checking out the podcast, so don’t be shy. Let your voices be heard!!!

Later!

Elements of Madness – PODCAST THE 1ST

GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME – THIS IS ELEMENTS OF MADNESS: THE PODCAST

We’re very excited to present you with Elements of Madness: Podcast the First, and we promise to deliver them in a more timely manner….particularly as we work out the kinks. Below is every picture, video and link that we discussed during the podcast, so that you are able to see what we are looking at and better understand our perspective. Please feel free to comment and let us know where you agree/disagree on any subject and also, please let us know if there are topics you are interested in hearing us discuss or investigate.

Podcast the Second has been recorded and will be posted in the next few days, but for now please enjoy Podcast the First!

Elements of Madness – 3.23.03 Podcast (if you’re getting 503 errors, you can try this torrent)

In This Week’s Podcast:

Rolling Stone’s Endorsement of Barack Obama: a comparison of magazine cover photography & representation
Picture1 Picture 2 Picture 3 Picture 4

Hillary Clinton 3AM Ad (2008)

Lydon Johnson Flower Girl Ad (1964)

Hillary Campaign re-enacts OJ Simpson debacle, while everyone rests during Easter.

Anonymous vs the Church of Scientology
The Results of Anonymity as demonstrated by Penny Arcade:

Fox News Coverage

Church of Scientology describes alleged attacks by Anonymous

Message from Anon regarding Operation: Reconnect

Net Neutrality
MPAA: Net Neutrality an Assault on Creativity

The excerpt read on-air:

Net neutrality laws, he said, “would impair the ability of broadband providers to address the serious and rampant piracy problems occurring over their networks today.”

“Technology,” Glickman continued, “is handing us the opportunity to deal the first real body blow to online piracy, to begin to reach toward the day when we might be able to take it off the table and debug the system.”

But Glickman is mistaken to equate peer-to-peer services with copyright infringement. Obviously some content shared on peer-to-peer services is pirated. But an increasing amount is not. Companies like Qtrax, Joost and Vuze, to name just a few, rely on peer-to-peer technology to lawfully distribute music or video.

Comcast loves to flout the incredibly high speeds the service can maintain….
yet they just can’t help themselves by getting involved in monitoring how their service is used….

As promised – Stephen Colbert’s explanation of the AT&T Monopoly

Attribution:
The soundtrack for this podcast was provided by Nine Inch Nails under a Creative Commons license. The opening track was 21 off of Ghosts III, the closing track was 26 off of Ghosts III. Please go get the album Ghosts I-IV and support NIN.

Delay In Production

Just wanted you all to know that the first official podcast may be a little later coming than we original anticipated.

Why?(a reasonable question)

Because I’m sitting in a Chick-Fil-A using Wifi. This is normally not a problem, but unfortunately this is the first sign that I am without internet access at home which means no ability to record as planned.

Oh, if I failed to mention before, Tomblin is in South Carolina and I’m in Maryland so we are at the mercy of Comcast…..g-d help us all.

Saturday the internet will hopefully be restored and after some good eattin’, we’ll be ready to resume production.  Hope you’ve enjoyed the demo, thus far. More to come.

Later!

Elements of Madness Preview Podcast

Good Afternoon All!

Below is a brief introduction to the Elements of Madness podcast in development. This demonstration features Micah Tomblin and myself giving a brief description of what you can expect from future podcasts. We’re hoping to have our first podcast up and running later in the week.

Unfortunately, Crystal Rattazzi, who was originally slated to be involved has been relegated to guest status due to prior engagements that will make her less regularly accessible.

Future Topics to Come:

*Rolling Stone predicts the Second Coming of Obama?
*RIAA vs the World
*MPAA & RIAA vs Net Neutrality
*Anon vs Scientology(see below)

Stayed tuned for more, but for now – a taste of things to come:
Elements of Madness Podcast Introduction

Elements of Madness (V.2.0)

So my blog, like so many other things before it(the earth, religion, modes of sharing music), is a changin’. I’d prefer to think of it as evolving, but I’ve already got ten fingers and ten toes(opposable thumbs included) so assuming some form of higher evolution may be a little far reaching, so I’ll just go with updating. This blog originally started for my Introduction to Digital Age course through Johns Hopkins Advanced Academics Communications in Contemporary Society program, but now, for my Essential Skills In Digital Media Literacy course, I will be attempting to develop and broadcast a podcast.

“Of what?” you might ask.

And that would be a good question – The intent is to examine the media and discuss why things are told the way they are. For instance, why does the Washington Post cover a story one way when the Baltimore Sun may cover the same story another? Why did Nine Inch Nails release their new 4 album set Ghosts I-IV online and why did they do it using a Creative Commmons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 USA copyright? Though Nine Inch Nails was still signed with a record deal, why release the 2007 album Year Zero with an alternate reality game whereas Ghost I-IV was released with little to no fanfare at all? (for anyone seeking a copy of the album, please see my friend Micah Tomblin’s blog for a link…..or check BitTorret.)

“More examples!” you say – alright:

THIS is the cover to a November issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine. For my Digital Media Literacy course, I was to redo the cover and the headline. Here is what it looks like:. Sends a different message doesn’t it? Or is it just the same thing? What does it say, if anything at all? What does it suggest?

Elements of Madness(V.2.0) is intended to bring up all of these thoughts and more. What are you reading/watching/listening to and what do you get from it? In our Digital Age information is everywhere, but not all of it is good for you. Perhaps we can help you sort it out. Stay tuned – more to come.

For more on Elements of Madness, please download the powerpoint presentation located in the sidebar.

See you next time!!!