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November 23, 2020: Gizmodo's Shoshana Wodinsky on Spotify
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Tonight: Gizmodo's Shoshana Wodinsky
Spotify is following the playbook of Facebook and Google to become the next Big Tech monopoly. What is Spotify doing with our data?
Links to Shoshana Wodinsky:
• About Shoshana Wodinsky, staff reporter at Gizmodo covering consumer privacy and tech policy
• On Twitter: @swodinsky
• Spotify's Latest Acquisition Is All About Your Data (by Wodinsky in Gizmodo, Nov 10, 2020): "The Megaphone acquisition clarifies how to think about Spotify overall: It's quickly becoming an advertising behemoth - less the Netflix of audio and much more akin to Facebook or Google for your ears."
• Spotify's Weird LinkedIn Playlists Sound Like a Cash Register (by Wodinsky in Gizmodo, March 5, 2020): "Spotify has slowly morphed its playlists into data-mining machines. . . . I'm giving the company not only my emotional state but also my entire schedule."
• Your Weather App Is Selling You Out (by Wodinsky in Gizmodo, Sep 14, 2020): "It's not just about tracking the weather, but tracking the way it's impacting our collective moods as a whole."
• Please Keep Mark Zuckerberg Away From My Bones (by Wodinsky in Gizmodo, Aug 18, 2020), which prompted me to write Facebook and your bones (Aug 20).
• More Gizmodo articles by Shoshana
Other pointers:
• A Tale Of Two Ecosystems: On Bandcamp, Spotify And The Wide-Open Future (Damon Krukowski on NPR, Aug 19, 2020): "Spotify's royalty rates are so low that to earn a living wage of $15 an hour, a musician needs 657,895 streams per month . . . The differences are so extreme, Bandcamp may not just be the anti-Spotify; it may be operating in an entirely different world."
...and from the November 2 show with Bill Deresiewicz, author of "The Death of the Artist":
• Spotify Celebrates 100th Dollar Given To Artists (The Onion, Sep 3, 2020): "Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, posing with a giant check for a $0.00000029 payout that propelled the world's musicians past a collective $100 in earnings. 'This is an absolute milestone for a musician-oriented platform like Spotify, and confirms what we believed when we started, which is that music-streaming platforms can be a reliable way to help bands and artists earn pennies or even nickels for their work. But this achievement is really about the artists on our platform. Spotify couldn't have done it without you.'"
• Spotify to offer artists and labels the option to promote their music in your recommendations (The Fader, Nov 2, 2020): "In exchange for a lowered 'promotional recording royalty rate.'"
• The Pocket Gods - 100mostXcellent30: an album of 100 30-second songs
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Machinarium Soundtrack |
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| The Pocket Gods |
We're All No Hit Wonders Now
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YouTube Is Fleecing You
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Nobody Makes Money Any More
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| Negativland |
More Data
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The World Will Decide |
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Listener comments!
David in London:
Hi Mark.
ultradamno:
Webhamster Henry:
David in London:
Webhamster, yo.
Fuzzy:
That Philip Michaels tweet is great!
Bas NL:
Webhamster Henry:
Ignatatus666:
I wish I could have it play on my FB homepage the way we were able to do on MySpace in the past.
ultradamno:
Ignatatus666:
tim from champaign (now washington):
spodiodi:
spodiodi:
Handy Haversack:
ultradamno, David, hello!
ultradamno:
Dan Cashin:
David in London:
David in London:
Hey Handy.
melinda:
ultradamno:
Ignatatus666:
Many of my friends are weaning off FB and going to Parler and another site.
listener james from westwood:
spodiodi:
ultradamno:
Mark Hurst:
ultradamno:
tim from champaign (now washington):
Ken From Hyde Park:
Mark Hurst:
Webhamster Henry:
Ignatatus666:
I love how they have specials where all the money goes to the Artists.
spodiodi:
tim from champaign (now washington):
ultradamno:
tim from champaign (now washington):
Webhamster Henry:
Mark Hurst:
Dean:
Dean:
tim from champaign (now washington):
Webhamster Henry:
Dean:
https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/468828.html
tim from champaign (now washington):
David in London:
Vinyl is dead. Remember that everyone. Oh, hang on a minute...
Earthwalker:
Go DuckDuckGo !
Mark Hurst:
Mark Hurst:
Mark Hurst:
David in London:
A catchphrase for the age. Can we have that on the Techtonic 2021 Marathon Premium t-shirt please Mark?
Mark Hurst:
Handy Haversack:
melinda:
Handy Haversack:
tim from champaign (now washington):
tim from champaign (now washington):
Mark Hurst:
Mark Hurst:
Dean:
I saw! I know! You disgust me.
David in London:
ultradamno:
spodiodi:
ultradamno:
Dean:
ultradamno:
David in London:
Handy Haversack:
ultradamno:
Earthwalker:
Drop Facebook
Boycott amazon
David in London:
Hey Earth Walker.
Niall:
Niall:
spodiodi:
ultradamno:
Dean:
Unsustainable Social Condition
SPK (early)
Webhamster Henry:
tim from champaign (now washington):
ultradamno:
ultradamno:
Dean:
Earthwalker:
What’s up Bro
12:44 French Time I’m being summoned by the wife
I’m history
Be well all !
Om Shanti
Fuzzy:
ultradamno:
Dean:
Niall:
I used to live not far from Long Island and I'd occasionally meet people who said that Paul Lemos/Controlled Bleeding was their teacher in the past.
Dean:
Handy Haversack:
I have to serve dinner, but thanks, Mark -- and thanks, Shoshana! Very good stuff.
Ignatatus666:
ultradamno:
Dmitry:
David in London:
Man, can’t believe how quickly this hour flashed by.
Webhamster Henry:
Niall:
Webhamster Henry:
ultradamno:
Ignatatus666:
30 second songs covers many DRI songs
Niall:
Sorry, ultradamno, I came the party late, I guess.
tim from champaign (now washington):
David in London:
Webhamster Henry:
ultradamno:
Dmitry:
Niall:
spodiodi:
thanks, Scott!
David in London:
Niall:
tim from champaign (now washington):
Dmitry:
Bas NL:
Webhamster Henry:
music.apple.com...
Mark Hurst:
ultradamno:
ultradamno:
Webhamster Henry:
spodiodi:
Mark Hurst:
ultradamno:
ARB:
Db Dan:
In regards to Parler (to "peak" in French) I glanced at at their site. Their privacy policy was very long (not a good sign) and one sentence in it says "We process and store your information in the U.S. We do not sell your information to third parties or share your information with foreign governments except in the limited circumstances described in this Privacy Policy". Concerning bits are ..... They "store" the information ........ If you join, we may "verify your identity, such as a copy of your government-issued photo identification, and information that can be used to facilitate the redemption of virtual items or payments, such as your Social Security number (SSN) or your tax identification number." It's a tricky world, but I'll wait on social media via Parler. Thanks for the tip to check them out in any case. Go Technoids!