Links for 25-12-2007
Byrne and Yorke talk (music) business; Ben Barber talks consumerism and democracy; that Google business model …
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1 – David Byrne and Thom Yorke on the Real Value of Music
“If you’re an emerging artist, it must be frightening at the moment. Then again, I don’t see a downside at all to big record companies not having access to new artists, because they have no idea what to do with them now anyway.”
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2 – Benjamin Barber on consumerism and democracy
“So number one then capitalism itself is in trouble. But, second of all, capitalism has put democracy in trouble. Because capitalism has tried to persuade us that being a private consumer is enough.”
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3 – He with the most data wins
“In many cases, one can hypothesize, Google can afford to operate services at a loss simply because the data it collects about users, their preferences, and their patterns of activity is so valuable to its core business.”
