FMC Conference Day Two (Recap)

FMC Audience, originally uploaded by leafblower.

Here are all the fellow laptop users at the FMC Conference. Quite a few of us multi-taskers. Yesterday's panels were mostly filled with legal mumbo jumbo, but the opening panel, which featured Napster creator Shaun Fanning, Mitch Bainwol, Chairman and CEO of the RIAA and Gary Shapiro, President and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association was action packed. Bainwol and Shapiro, both representing the opposite ends of the industry, spent most of the panel taking shots at each other, mostly to hilarious effect. Jim Griffin, CEO of Cherry Lane Digital, did a great job as moderator (best of the conference so far) and was quick and witty and kept the topics and conversation flowing. Good stuff. Check out Coolfer for the official recap.

Yesterday also saw the first "blogging" panel of the conference, but the panelists weren't exactly bloggers and the conversation mostly got bogged down with licensing and the legal side of podcasting. Here's Coolfer's recap.

Coolfer and I have our panel this afternoon at 12:45. We'll be speaking about "How To Podcast and Music Blog" along with Mike Holden and Eric Olsen from Blogcritics. I'll have a recap this afternoon. Obvs.

If I had my shit together, I would have had my new podcast up for download today, but I just haven't had time to do it. So next week then.

Here's my DCist interview with Mike Doughty as well as my DCist review of Sunday's Idlewild show.

NME got a makeover, but the news page is loading all funny for me.

Again, pilfering Coolfer for content, but there are a ton of new records being released today that are worth your hard earned money, but there are two in particular that I encourage you to buy. One, obvs. is Love Kraft by my favourite band in the world, the Super Furry Animals. The second release is Little By Little, the latest offering from a rejuvenated Harvey Danger. I've had the record for a few weeks (thanks Jeff) and it's good stuff. Classic Harvey Danger, if there is such a thing. "Wine, Women and Song" and "Cream and Bastards" have been in heavy rotation on my iTunes. Pitchfork has details of the band's interesting distribution scheme.