Got back yesterday from O'Reilly's DIGIFOO conference where about 150 Video, Photo and Music people got together for a self-organizing conference.
Most of the attendees were from the video/photo world, with about 10 people from music (almost half of them from Microsoft -- though Sumit, from Microsoft Research showed some very cool tech for automatically mashing two pieces of music together, adding a drumbeat too a beat-less track). O'Reilly's publishing a bunch of photo/video books, which explains the emphasis the DIGIFOO.
I met Lucas Gonze, of Webjay fame for the first time (he's even more impressive in person), and met up again with the fabulous Robert Kaye of MusicBrainz.
Robert and Lucas and I decided that a conference dedicated to "what's going to replace the major labels ?" is sorely needed, and we could gather all the various wacky Internet-music ideas together, do some networking, come up with a game plan, and plan for world domination. (grin). The 3 of us are making initial plans, getting a location secured and a date (in January/February). It'll be a weekend 2 day affair, in the style of CodeCon, very low cost (so that poor starving webmasters can attend).
More news on this Replacing-the-music-industry convention as we settle it...
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