Back from Newcastle now, I was on a panel with Thomas Dolby, Scott Cohen (The Orchard) and John Webster (MMF) discussing “digital music” last night. The topic was broad and so was the 2 hour discussion. I prefer doing it in an hour and then having conversation afterwards with people individually but this worked pretty well as Russ was doing a good job guiding the conversation. I mostly enjoyed some insight from Thomas as he could talk about the changing landscape of the music industry over the last 30ish years from an artist point of view.
It’s nice to have people on a panel that are ‘doing things’ as oppose to ‘talk about them’. We were discussing this when we talked about who we should invite for our new OpenMusicMedia meet. I felt it worked really well to have Anthony there as he could talk about his product as well as music blogs in general. It’s good to talk about ideas but even better to see them in a practical context. We are now thinking about the next topic, two things we are interested in is the ‘music feels like free’ discussion as well as data portability. More on that soon on the OpenMusicMedia blog. We’re also putting together an old school style mailing list, not everyone is good with rss and twitter it seems…
Oh and by the way thanks to everyone who made is down last week and contributed to a great night!
