Mr. Fogg moved to

this new domain http://klaus-gropper.com/

Book publishers to follow the music industries failure?

Mathew Ingram wrote an interesting summary on Amazons interests and strategies on the publishing business that reveals many similarities with what happened to the music industry. In a nutshell, Amazon started out as a book retailer, a company that was arguably a friend to book publishers, since it expanded the market for many of their… [Read more…]

Apple vs. Samsung?

Again, Internet is killing music…

Digital Music News posted this very nice but heavily misleading graph: The album sales data comes from the RIAA, the broadband percentages (per total households) come from Pew Internet. US-based data, left axis in millions of units. Of course, internet traffic raised, and of course album sales dropped over the years, and this plain and… [Read more…]

Berlin Music Week aftermath

I was a little lazy posting the last few week, but visiting Berlin Music Week kind of speeded up my pulse enough to get going again. Have you been there? No? You missed something. The proof that the Berlin senate still has money to burn. Berlin Music Week was a desaster – not only that… [Read more…]

your iPhone will be blocked soon

At least during capitalism, capitalism seemed to be somehow logic. Someone makes something, and someone else buys it, more makers make more diversity, higher quality, customers, consumers can descide, vigilantism by bad buy! May the best offer win. The nice’n cosy consumer’s world is breaking up. Especially now, as the stuff we buy get’s more and… [Read more…]

Apple steals iPad design from Kubrick?

Copy right is a complex issue, and is often missused to rather claim unique features / unique selling points against competitors, than to protect intellectual propperty. Samsung and Apple are fighting about the copy right of the iPads and Samsungs tablet the Galaxy Tabs design, about the USP of a flat, rectangle tablet device. Which… [Read more…]

Hacker attack German collecting society GEMA

‘Sorry, this site is not available (not only) in your county, as it links to a company that failed to establish the necessary rights of freedom to anonymous’… reads a splash page that appears if you try to open the website of GEMA. Reffering to their quarrel with youtube, hacker network anonymous started a Denial-of-Service-attack, that… [Read more…]

Where Modeselektor do munch after shows

German magazine DE:BUG has released a classy-looking iPad app giving a guide to Berlin from a bunch of DJs and music producers. The idea: they present their favourite spots around the city, accompanied by audio slideshows, interviews and essays.    App store link: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/de-bug-the-sound-of-berlin/id450812149?mt=8

generous crowds

kickstarter now can look back on 10,000 funded projects! If you look at 26k launched projects and see 44% being sucessfully funded this is even more impressive. These 10,000 funded projects break down by the following categories:     Of course, the total amount being needed to fund a project is relevant – and it… [Read more…]