Test your blog

Write a list of general terms related to NMTs
Personalisation
Convergence
Digitisation
Interactivity
Democratisation
Linear/Non linear
push/pull media
Institutions
Technology

Write a list of key terminology related to your chosen technology
DRM (digital rights management)
P2P Filesharing
Portable music players (mp3s)


From your blog, select 10 statements (stats, quotations) that you have found during your research which relate to debates on audiences’ changing experiences, institutions response to technology, the future etc. NAME ANY SOURCES

1. Sixty seven per cent of the UK online population has tried some sort of digital activity, for example reading blogs. downloading music or podcasts. Over half have downloaded music and 8 per cent have downloaded a podcast. From the Guardian's digination study
2. 61 per cent, listen to downloaded material at home. Thirty-eight per cent listen to it on their PCs and 46 per cent on their iPods/MP3 players. Again the guardians digination study
3. Lilly Allen was asked if she was 'discovered by MySpace', Allen stated, "Not accurate at all, I had a record deal before I set up my MySpace account so, erm, that's ... couldn't really be further from the truth." taken from the wikipedia page on myspace
4. ."Businesses that seek to trade off on our content, and the hard work of our artists and songwriters, shouldn't be free to do so without permission and without fairly compensating the content creators," Universal Music statedin a bbc story.
5. "That would imply criminalising socially admitted and widely practised behaviour where the aim is not to gain wealth illegally but to obtain private copies," said a spanish judge after judging thatfilesharing was legal if for personal uses.
6. over the last week it has emerged that online music sales have slumped by 25% in the third quarter of 2002 compared with a year earlier. the guardian online.
7. "Clearly the first place to go is music, so we will tap into the music scene," he said."We're already working in the US with CD:UK which is coming over to the US, to be called CD:USA, and we're going to integrate bands from MySpace into that programme."We hope when we go back to the UK to tap into how successful that show is. Hopefully they'll want to market through MySpace and we'll tap into the local events scene, parties, clubs, artists, film makers, television producers, so I think it's going to grow pretty rapidly." stated a representative of myspace on the recent launch of Myspace uk.
8. Steve Jobs hailed EMI's dropping of file protection as "the next big step forward in the digital music revolution".
9. Forty three per cent of music downloaders say that free downloads have encouraged them to buy more music than they did; only 35% believe that illegal downloading or file sharing is wrong. The guardians digi:nation study.
10. Barriers preventing the remaining 46% from downloading are lack of knowledge, knowing which sites to use and not owning an MP3 player. guardians digination study.