I was tickled to find this morning that my friend Jim Hanas chose to upgrade a quip of mine to a coinage on Google+. (Need an invite? Send me an email: james AT workbenchrecordings DOT com.) I’m sure the artists in the audience will relate to what Jim’s talking about here.
Is “Pay What You Want” Worth It?
In one study, researchers from Caltech and Stanford asked novice wine drinkers to sample and rate five different wines that ranged in price from $5 to $90 per bottle. In blind taste tests they enjoyed all of the wines about equally, but when shown the prices they preferred the more expensive ones. What the volunteers didn’t realize didn’t realize was that they were actually drinking the same wine with a different price tag — and rating
…
Winging It
It was only two weeks ago that I noted that I was updating this site more frequently. I said, “I just think blogs are more effective when they’re daily. And by effective, I mean that they are more successful in drawing, and maintaining, a readership. And hopefully some of that readership is converted to a listenership.”
Well, I still think that blogs are more effective when they’re daily, but I’ve found that I don’t have the time to do…
Simon Reynolds in WIRE on the Digital Glut
In the topsy-turvy world of digiculture, the scarcity economy of music has entirely gone… replaced by a scarcity of consumers and spectators. Momus’s celebrated maxim that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 people might have been over-optimistic.
– Simon Reynolds in WIRE magazine No. 328 “Excess all areas”
