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“A fundamentalist is a person, who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith, before they explore it - as opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ratifications.”

By one of my favorite authors, Seth Godin.

Here it is, the 90 minute keynote in 60 seconds. Enjoy.

“EMI, the big music company, spends 25 million pounds a year ‘to scrap unsold CDs’ ” - Financial Times. (via Marc Andreessen)

The image above is a great example how to communicate to your customers when you have to ask the customer to do something that’s not in their interest. You position the message so that it’s actually a compliment instead of apologising for the task. Don’t concentrate on yourself and what you’re doing - focus on the customer, they’re giving you their attention. Give something back to them.

The message is from twitter, when they were going through my Gmail contacts whether any of them had an account with twitter.

Mikseri.net, a very succesful Finnish website to promote new artists and unknown talents has sprung many amateurs into the music industry in a way they could have only dreamt of. See it as the open source “Idols“. However, there’s something very wrong with the site and their logic how they function. They don’t promote CC-licensing at all.

Artists should naturally have a chance to license their music through CC-licenses and thus help spread the music. At the moment the only alternative (after a little detective work) for artists to license their music is the regular copyright law. If you try to grow your business and help the artists, let the music play! I mean they’re already doing it with embeddable music players. Where’s the logic in that?

Mikseri.net - you guys should meet Creative Commons and truly blow your business. You’re artificially limiting your business, because you’re stuck to the old ways of doing things. Innovate, live long and prosper!

My friend and partner, Hannu Ripatti, has been writing a blog for sometime now, called Garbage is an analog concept. He has a lot of good entries there already, but I especially like the “Dinner in the cave“.

He writes about his blog (which I agree with 100%):

I believe that the ongoing digital revolution is going to be one of the landmark moments in history. It will not only change the way we do business and communicate. It will change every aspect of society from education to privacy and beyond. There will be many challenges, both technical and intellectual, but in the end I truly believe that we will all benefit from the revolution.

I heard some very exciting news just a moment ago; Sony BMG drops DRM!

The fight that I was involved in as well through Olen Rikollinen? -campaign was not carried out in vain. All the largest record labels have finally dropped DRM (or have publicly announced to do so).

This just made my day.

I made a small video to wish you all a happy new year. The video is available in slightly better format at Vimeo.com.

I’ve been playing with Vimeo, the site the video is hosted on, and so far I can say it’s an incredible resource of amateur and professional video, with a different positioning compared to YouTube, but it rocks. If you’re into video, do check it out.