Picks from my Del.icio.us links, except looking halfway decent:

Apparently, DRM is dead, evidenced by a statement that “7Digital says DRM-free music sales now outnumber DRM-enabled music 4-to-1.” Meanwhile, shhhh, but illegal peer-to-peer downloads have a positive effect. “Our analysis of the Canadian P2P file-sharing subpopulation suggests that there is a strong positive relationship between P2P file-sharing and CD purchasing. That is, among Canadians actually engaged in it, P2P file-sharing increases CD purchasing.”

Wowsers. A wind-up MP3 player. All the better for playing BBC’s podcasts (now including music). If only they’d do a wind-up video player, I could use it for the really rather excellent Channel Flip range of video podcasts. (Yay! British video podcasts! Well-made! Excellently done! Yay!) Also, highly recommended, Mahalo Daily, where Veronica Belmont shows that online video shows needn’t be formulaic, can be produced with good production values, and with humour (even though they’ll spell it ‘humor’, incorrectly). So, so much better than Robert Scoble’s long yawnfests.

Talking about humour, if you’re going to put your content behind a registration wall, at least be careful about how much of the story you give away…

Photo: Stefan. Used under licence.

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