Blaise Lucey
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Innovation & Stagnation in the Traditonal Publishing Industry
The Tribune Company did something that surprised me the other day: it released a new product. An app, to be specific. Newsbeat converts newspapers into audio, so people can listen to them in the car, on their iPhone and in various other Mobile scenarios. Aside from Tribune newspapers like The Los Angeles Times, Newsbeat will…
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5 Boston Music Tech Start-Ups You Should Know About
We might already be entering the era of music business 3.0. That’s at least what the CEO of music technology start-up Gideen told me in my recent interview with him. I like the term. It acknowledges that streaming and downloadable songs (music business 2.0) existed before this new wave of music tech start-ups. And also…
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3 New Ways You Can Sell CDs at Shows
It’s harder than ever -literally, ever – for bands to sell CDs at shows. People just don’t buy them anymore. CD sales are at an all-time low. In December 2000, 785.14 albums were sold. In 2013, that number dropped to 289.41 million. This past January, sales reached another record weekly low. My laptop doesn’t even have a…
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Net Neutrality’s Meaning for Bloggers, Writers, and Musicians
Last week, the FCC struck down something called “net neutrality.” You might have seen headlines and decided it was boring. Maybe, for a little while, you were curious about the ruling’s meaning. No one really knows how things are going to work in a post net-neutrality world. But there are a lot of alarm bells…
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7 Things Making Musicians (and the Music Industry) Go Out of Business
I recently stumbled across a really interesting documentary – “Unsound.” No, it’s not out yet. In fact, maybe it never will be. Right now, it’s in the funding stages on IndieGoGO and I beseech everyone to go help make it become a reality. Writers, artists, musicians – anyone who does creative stuff needs to donate…
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How to Use a Blog to Sell Your Book
The government shutdown is over. For now. After so much productive and rigorous hashtagging on Twitter, complaints on Facebook, and half-plagiarised news articles looking for traffic, our representatives had no choice but to start funding things again. And agree to fund the things they passed this year already. During that time – while I was…
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