links for 2008-04-05

Apr 5, 2008 Author: Adrian Fusiarski | Filed under: Uncategorized

DJmag.com: Job’s a Good ‘Un! The Ibiza Job Centre

Want to spend your summer out in Ibiza, but need to earn some wedge along the way? Dead set on that gig as a podium dancer in your favourite club on the White Isle? The Ibiza Job Centre has the solution.
File sharing ‘may be good’, says EMI executive | Technology | The Guardian

The senior Google executive poached by EMI’s new owners to overhaul its global digital strategy said yesterday that file sharing, for so long deemed the scourge of the music business, was “not necessarily bad”.
Digital Audio Insider

When it first launched, direct comparisons of the Amazon.com mp3 store with Apple’s iTunes store were difficult, largely because of major differences in their respective catalogs.
Something Important Is On The Horizon In The Music Business - Silicon Alley Insider

Having ceded the file based music opportunity (mp3s and drm’d file formats) to Apple (AAPL), the recorded labels are now getting hip to the much bigger opportunity: Streaming music.
BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News

The BPI has been writing to all the big ISPs with a proposal. It wants them to warn their users that file-sharing is not an acceptable activity - and then disconnect those who ignore repeated warnings to desist.
INDIEBLOGHEAVEN: Radiohead Build Their Own Social Network Site

Who wants to talk about the band that’s reinventing the wheel on twelve other websites, when you can do it all under one big Radiohead hub?
Scoble about social media: “The first experience is a crappy experience”

You probably know Nicholas Negroponte, the man who tries to supply every student in the developing world with an laptop of 100 dollar, The Children’s Machine, to extend Internet access in the third world.