Archive for January, 2009

DRM-Free Music in Canadian iTunes

By jambrose | Digital Music, Personal

Does the Canadian iTunes store carry DRM-free music? iTunes Canada carries songs free of DRM? After Googling this question a couple times, I thought I would make it easier to find the answer. The answer is yes, but not all songs. You can tell by the words “iTunes Plus” above the buy now button. I

All Eyes Should be on Trent Reznor

By jambrose | Digital Music, Media Technology

Nine Inch Nails just release their new album The Slip as a %100 free download. I might go so far as to say it is a %110 free download, given the extremely open set of formats it which it is available: High-quality MP3s (87 mb) – encoded with LAME at V0, fully tagged. FLAC lossless

Blackberry, Viigo and Twitter

By jambrose | Media Technology, Social Media

As some of you know, I am an admitted Blackberry addict. It wasn’t too bad until I got the Bold 9000. This is the next best thing to a laptop, and in my opinion, kills the iPhone if you like to type. The downside is have to talk with a toaster up against you face,

Spam blogs polluting my Google Alerts

By jambrose | Lighter Side, Social Media

Google alerts are one of favourite ways to get good, weekly cross-section dumps on certain topics. Lately however, I have noticed that the top picks are usually spam blogs. These are also call splogs in Webtoopointohese. There are not always easy to spot at first, and they seem to take the form of “press releases”.

UGC Contest Value Propositions

By jambrose | Interactive Strategy, Media Technology, Social Media

In the process of media sales, there comes a time when the deal needs to be sweetened, and some sizzle is required to excite an otherwise conservative brand into aligning with a broadcast product. An example of a deal might be a TV spot against a weekly seasonal show that appeals to the brand’s target