Perhaps The Major Record Labels Will Discover Twitter In 2015
from the a-bit-slow-on-the-uptake dept
Wired's Epicenter blog notes that a division of EMI has announced the first major record label blog. While it does appear to be true that this is the first such blog, the very fact that it's only happening now is somewhat stunning. What's even more amazing, really, is that EMI is promoting the fact that they're so far behind the times. Yes, they beat the other three major record labels, but just starting to blog now isn't exactly something to hype up. In fact, prior to this, I'd never even thought about the fact that the labels had no blogs -- but in calling that fact out, it simply reminds everyone how the major record labels are so far behind in embracing any type of modern technology. It's sort of like a horse and buggy manufacturer putting out a press release that it had installed telephones in its office decades after such things were common.
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The blog links to MUSIC videos on YouTube.
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Then they'll sue themselves for sharing music videos on their blog.
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Spam you sign actively seek and sign up for... what a concept!
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Hmm. Someone apparently doesn't know how to use Twitter. The whole point is that you choose what to follow. If you think it's spam... um.. don't follow it? I don't get spammed at all via Twitter. I do get to communicate with family and friends though.
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Twitter in 2015? Might as well be Blockbuster
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I hate this "Omigod, why didn't they have a blog?" reaction, as if that is meaningful in any way. A blog is a tool, like anything else. You don't have a tool to have a tool, to have tool to accomplish a task you couldn't accomplish without the tool.
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I am minded of the story (true? Don't know) of Alexander Graham Bell leaving a free telephone at a prominent banker's office. When the banker's secretary told the banker what had happened, the banker threw the telephone in the trash.
True or not, it is, in essence, what you are reporting.
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EMI
EMI was one of the first to offer DRM-free music on the Apple site. I got a weekly newsletter from EMI with pictures and text concerning new releases. That newsletter, to this day, does NOT link to any online store, which would certainly increase sales.
Ah, well.
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