Had a great time on Sunday at the Cybersalon at The Hillside Club in Berkeley. Steven Levy talked about his book and its topic, the iPod. Sylvia Paul has been putting on Cybersalons for probably a decade and they are a premier though extremely low key schmooze event. It was great to see the 70 or so folks who I’ve come to know over the years out of probably 140 total, and a lot of fun as I looked around the crowd and recognized more and more people. I totally enjoy the East Bay vibe and people. Dave Winer got a good picture of Laurie Flynn, Tony Bove, and I Brian Zisk.
Archive for October, 2006
Steven Levy iPod Cybersalon in Berkeley
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006Digimart 2006 Montreal Yet Again
Monday, October 30th, 2006Attending two conferences this quality in three weeks in Montreal, what an incredible stroke of luck. I got the chance to climb Mount Royal a few times, and had a generally fantastic experience. This was the second Digimart (I’ve been to both), and it was well worth attending yet again. It’s always great to see friends like John Perry Barlow, Cory Doctorow, Lisa Rein and so many more, and to meet and see so many folks like Ted Sarandos whom I don’t know as well.
Peter Broderick and Peter Buckingham both gave great keynotes, and the panels and panelists were generally top notch as well.
Over at the Digimart website, Peter Wintonick and Sylvaine Carle blog so indepth about the conference that I’m going to defer to their observations. Hope to see a lot of you there again next year!
Future of Music Policy Summit 2006 Montreal
Monday, October 30th, 2006The 6th Annual Future of Music Policy Summit which we held in conjunction with Pop Montreal and McGill University may have been the best one yet. Even at the end of the third day, the last panel was being wrapped up after running a half hour longer than scheduled and folks didn’t want it to end! While I wish I had more time to convey much of what went on, many of the panels can be seen here. While some of the sessions such as David Byrne’s Presentation: Record Companies: Who Needs Them? and the abovementioned “How the Money Moves” with Mario Bouchard, Ann Chaitovitz, Michael Hausman, and Marcy Rauer Wagman don’t have video available, I’m just happy that most of the panels were extremely interesting, and glad that most of them are up. Check out the Young Musicians panel with Win Butler of The Arcade Fire, Tourquil Campbell of Stars, Composer Brian Current, Bernadette Houde from Lesbians on Ecstacy, and Attorney Chris Taylor.
At Your Demand…
Saturday, October 28th, 2006Zisk On Demand Episode #1:Music, Internet, Technology, Politics
Thank you for nominating us for 2 Vloggie Awards, in the Best Vlog and Best Male Vlogger categories. Looking forward to seeing many of you at the awards!