Jamie Beckland

Why the future of #music is brighter than ever. Hint: a smaller industry is better for the art formMany hands have been wrung about the future of music. The music industry has seen year over year of increasingly steep declines for a decade. Think about that for a minute: in 2001, the business fell by [...]

What now? @Richard_Florida's Great Reset: how to reset the economy for the next 50 yearsIn The Great Reset, Richard Florida asks the question that all policy makers should be asking: what happens after a Depression? This shockingly simple question opens the door to look at history as a guide for what is to come for [...]

Consider the negative and positive externalities when movingSorry for the delay in updates. I have been in the process of moving, which has taken me away from blogging. Now, everything is in the new house, and many things even have a place to live!

Why Web3D – the hottest tech trend of 2008 – has failed (hint: it's a cost-benefit analysis)With recent developer conferences from Facebook and Twitter, and the forthcoming Google I/O conference, it’s easy to get wrapped up in the breathless excitement of possibility. It gives tech blogs many millions of pageviews to chronicle each minor announcement as [...]

Social media journalism needs to change – Enterprise 2.0 is way more important than FacebookAmongst those that talk social media, the most popular conversation is Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg is the prom king, and the entire high school commons of the blogosphere knows what’s going on with him at all times. That’s part of the reason [...]

Facebook WILL automatically release your ID to 3rd party sites (but you might even thank them) #facebookFacebook recently announced that they will give up personally identifiable information to certain “approved” sites that use Facebook Connect. Within the tech industry, this is seen as a scary invasion of privacy, but I am not sure if it [...]

Whatever you do, don't buy a house right now. You can't compete with crazy people.Confession time: I have been looking at houses online. I salivate over the new listings every day. We are settled into Portland enough that buying a house seemed like a reasonable option. But, this topsy turvy market really means that the [...]

Chris Anderson’s new book, Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price, will scare you. And it should. If you’re in the business of selling anything, you need to think about how you might be able to give it away. Because if you don’t, someone else will.