A few impressions from the first day of SIME07

Le Choix

  • Alexander Bard had a point talking about “talent-generated content” in the first conversation. Unfortunately he really didn’t seem to get SoundCloud when I spoke to him later (SoundCloud is really about talent-generated…). He was rambling about the secret sauce about being an A&R, which is not really what the cloud is about. That man may be clever, but he’s getting older…
  • The only conference in recent times where the Wifi didn’t make trouble was Hej! 07. I remember having trouble on all other conferences I attended since then… Is it that hard? Without Internet these kind of conferences are a pain. It also kills both backchannels and many of the potential IRL meetings.
  • The SoundCloud / Le Choix (Let me know if you want an invite) / Radon concept seems to work. There’s been two remixes of the SIME Theme anthem this far, and the main mix is coming a long nicely.
  • The talks have not been terribly interesting, unfortunately. Not sure the artistic ambition mixes too well with the very corporate feel of many presentations.
  • Less than 5% of the crowd knew about Creative Commons. And these people are in the media business? I thought that was sort of baseline knowledge by now. Or is the problem that CC does not really have much relevance for big media.

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  • @Leonieke Just sent you an invite :)
  • Hi Eric,

    When I run the tag SIME07 in technorati, your post is the only post that comes up. Very strange. Does this mean that all these visitors of SIME 07 didn't speak about the conference at the digital domain? Weird. Anyhow, now I have been reminded at Soundcloud, and you support me at your post, I would really like to be invited at Soundcloud! I've sent an e-mail, but didn't receive anything yet. I thought the Soundcloud system is pretty cool, and would like to try it for myself (and blog about it!!).

    I'm a Dutch girl and work for the Public broadcasting company VPRO. Maybe we can use soundcloud for our musical department or our radio programmes, would be really cool to try!

    Thanx, Leonieke
  • Interesting about CC was also that the guy talking about it couldn´t explain it at all. He said "we are giving everything away for free, as long as no one makes any real money from it". That is not really the essence of CC. How hard is it to say "Some rights reserved"?
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