“To all our questions”, as Col. Abrahams once intoned. Dan’s finally posted his magnum-opus on Echo.com and the promise it holds for media brands, the exploration of music and musical community.

“it’s radio that learns. Learns quickly too… …Watching it learn is fascinating. M’colleague Chris Jones described it as a ‘musical tamogotchi’. Hearing it play your favourite record unprompted is almost akin to witnessing a childs first faltering steps. Almost.”

» CityOfSound: Echo and the future of radio

Matt Haughey recently wrote something about digital music I’ve been meaning to point to:

“Imagine if you couldn’t ever buy a DVD movie on disc, and the only way to get content was to use cumbersome software tools in your PC, with an attached VCR as input. Now where would DVDs be if that were the only way to get new content? Looking at the world of mp3s, you see that even despite that daunting hurdle, they are everywhere.”

» Matt Haughey: The future of music