Rädda den kommersiella radion!

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Jag älskar radio för att man inte vet vad som ska komma härnäst. Eller ok det kanske var att ta i, beror ju såklart på vilken kanal man lyssnar på då omväxlingen på en del av dem inte är den bästa. Men överlag så tycker jag om radio. Det känns mysigt bara, en tradition.

Till skillnad från Spotify som jag lyssnar på dagligen när jag jobbar, så bjuder radio och andra slumpartade musiktjänster på nätet (som ex. Last.fm och The Hype Machine) på det oväntade. Visst kan man använda sig av Spotifys “spelare” som slumpar musik utifrån vilken/vilka genrer du valt och årtionden men då får du räkna med att en och annan märklig låt som inte alls passar in efter dina kriterier hamnar i hörlurarna.

Nu måste jag erkänna att jag faktiskt inte lyssnar så värst mycket på just kommersiell radio förutom då jag åker och kör bil. Då är det perfekt med massa olika radiokanaler att välja mellan. Nu är det iallafall så att den kommersiella radion börjar få det lite knapert och vill att regeringen ska avskaffa “straffskatten” på 130 miljoner kr som de måste skatta varje år. Så vad gör de? Jo de använder sig av video såklart. Musikvideon “Vi ger dig våra röster” i sann “We are the world“-anda, minus sångrösterna då förstås, samt kampanjen “Rädda Radion” hoppas på att samla in tillräckligt med röster för att få Reinfeldt och gänget att lyssna. Facebook-gruppen har i skrivandets läge 21 946 medlemmar.

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Skulle de inte lyckas så får de väl satsa på podcasting istället och sända creative commons musik eller bara “surra”. Den chansen känns ju rätt liten dock även om det vore en kul tanke. Fram för fler podcasts!

Voddler is in the house

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Today the Swedish online video streaming service Voddler “The magic world of movies” is being launched. So far it doesn’t work for Mac-users :( but I’ve seen tweets about it being available for Mac users sometime during next week. If that’s true I’m a happy bee :)

According to an article in the Swedish newsmagazine DN Voddler will not only be about movies and TV-series but will also stream music in the future. This means an other Swedish well-known service, Spotify, will get some competition. Spotify is still way ahead when it comes to users and the amount of PR the service has gotten during these past few months. And I do belive in finding your nisch when it comes to the Internet, people want to go where the best content is. The fact that Voddler is aiming towards gather both movies, TV-shows and music in one place is interesting though.

I must say I’m a bit excited about this one and I have big expectations. The big question is will people be willing to pay for the service? The will use pre-roll ads in the movies but when you think about all the costs the service must have that probably won’t be enough. Like Spotify they will also have some sort of a premium version. If the service is really good and the library of movies is big enough I do think it has got a chance to survive. I think it’s important though to get the movies up there as quick as possible when released. If you could stream a movie as a premium user at the same time as it’s being released on theaters that would be something! But I suppose the movie industry hasn’t realized that DVD releases don’t have to come after the theaters, they are two different experiences. Only time will tell if the dreams over at Voddler will come true or not…

This is it!

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When Michael Jackson died I got sad to say the least. He was and still is one of my favourite artists and someone that I grew up with together with Madonna of course. On October 28 the movie “This Is It” will enter the movie theatres for two weeks only and hand in hand a record with the same name will of course join the ride.

12.00 Midnight Eastern time today a new song was released called, yes you guessed it, “This Is It“. It immediately became a trending topic on Twitter, fans shared the song by using the hashtag #ThisIsIt. The fact that the song was released on a #MusicMonday might even have been part of the plans… :) It did at least give him and his upcoming album a push I think. Someone even gave him the hashtag #MichaelMonday.

As always when it comes to sharing and consuming information online stuff that you probably wouldn’t have heard about if you weren’t on Twitter, Facebook or any of the other digital water-coolers, will rise to the surface. The Twitter handle @MJJNews brings back an old song that Michael Jackson and Paul Anka wrote back in the 90′s for Safire called “I never heard” and sure it does sound alike…

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One thing is for sure though, I’ll be one of many people that will go and see the movie. I might even buy my first CD in a long time and the Jackson magic lives on.

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