{"id":571,"date":"2007-09-04T21:08:16","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T02:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/09\/04\/the-biggest-thing-in-their-life-is-word-of-mouth\/"},"modified":"2007-09-04T21:11:28","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T02:11:28","slug":"the-biggest-thing-in-their-life-is-word-of-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/09\/04\/the-biggest-thing-in-their-life-is-word-of-mouth","title":{"rendered":"The biggest thing in their life is word of mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/02\/magazine\/02rubin.t.html?pagewanted=all\">Spot-on profile of Rick Rubin and the future of music in this Sunday&#8217;s New York Times Magazine<\/a> (probably already much blogged about):<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/02\/magazine\/02rubin.t.html?pagewanted=all\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The kids all said that a) no one listens to the radio anymore, b) they mostly steal music, but they don&#8217;t consider it stealing, and c) they get most of their music from iTunes on their iPod. They told us that MySpace is over, it&#8217;s just not cool anymore; Facebook is still cool, but that might not last much longer; and the biggest thing in their life is word of mouth. That&#8217;s how they hear about music, bands, everything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That last point is key.  If any new business model will thrive, it will be one that is built around the <a href=\"http:\/\/bradfitz.com\/social-graph-problem\/\">social graph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[Tags]Social graph, Rick Rubin, Music, New York Times, Facebook, Myspace, iTunes[\/tags]<\/p>\n<p><hints id=\"hah_hints\"><\/hints><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spot-on profile of Rick Rubin and the future of music in this Sunday&#8217;s New York Times Magazine (probably already much blogged about): The kids all said that a) no one listens to the radio anymore, b) they mostly steal music, but they don&#8217;t consider it stealing, and c) they get most of their music from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,18,11,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}