By Ryan Van Etten on 05/26/2010
“You’ve just got to be open and free, because that’s the way people want to get content on the web”, says Dallas Penn. “Don’t be afraid of someone stealing your work so much, just have more work to give, and, if people are stealing it, you know what you’re onto something. You’re moving in the right direction.” continued Penn. Frank Talk summarized it in poetic terms, “If they’re stealing from you, [then] you’re on the right track.”
Posted in Discussion, Infoculture, Media/Journalism, Music, Music Flux | Tagged bandcamp, blogging, blogosphere, blogspot, circular promotion, community, content, copyright law, counterculture, culture, curating music, hip hop, internet, music bloggers, MusicBiz, net neutrality, new media, Oddisee, open, openness, personal brands, video |
![Facebook More Traffic Than Google [Stats]](http://img.virtualmusic.tv/thumbs/facebook-friendwheel_jahw.png)
By Ryan Van Etten on 04/27/2010
Here’s some graphical perspective on Facebook’s growth via estimated traffic data from Quantcast and Compete. The numbers are significantly different between the sources but the basic trend and relative traffic difference between Facebook and Google is evident: Facebook is a rocket, or, rather a full-blown planet with enough gravity to start a galaxy—the data shows it surpassed Google in traffic in late 2009.
Posted in Infoculture, News, Visual | Tagged comparison, compete, data, Facebook, Facebook growth, Facebook vs. Google, Google, graph, open, quantcast, social media, stats, traffic, trends, visualization |
By Ryan Van Etten on 09/01/2009
“Remixed” is a new beta section on VirtualMusic.tv covering open remixing via remix reviews, remix stories, virtual collaboration, and remix production techniques. The idea is an mp3blog covering remixed tracks with posts that include—or link to—streaming remixed audio or video.
Posted in Editor Notes, Music, News, Remixed, Reviews | Tagged Apps, collaboration, Creative Commons, Indaba Music, music industry, open, remixing, resources, site info, social music |
By Ryan Van Etten on 07/28/2009
We’ll be running a new image series, called Photo Journal, where we showcase live music photos, deviations, and digital artwork relating to music, arts, virtuality, and technology.
Posted in Editor Notes, Photo Journal | Tagged arts, artwork, Creative Commons, digital, FAQ, flickr, flickr group, imagination, interpretation, music photography, open, Photo Journal, site info, visualjournal |
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