IBD

About iBD

ignoredByDinosaurs is an idea at this point. It was born out of a long held notion that someone somewhere must have an idea about where the music industry is headed. I've held this belief for so long while living my life as a musician and artist and student of culture and society that I've kissed it goodbye. I realized about a year ago that nobody anywhere even had a clue, never mind a plan that saved what was worth saving about the music industry - the music part.

ibD Manifesto

Submitted by jgrubb on Wed, 05/27/2009 - 7:13am

Disclaimer(s) : I will me using the terms "we" and "us" and "our" to refer alternately to my band Railroad Earth, and to my colleagues in the jamband scene without differentiating every time which I'm talking about. You'll just have to figure it out. Hope it's not too confusing.

This began as an email to a Rails developer that I'd been conversing with. He brought up the Digg Trent Reznor interview. After the first bit my response became more like a blog post. So I'm posting.

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recordingTechnology.

Submitted by jgrubb on Wed, 03/04/2009 - 9:13pm

Now, this part won't be any news to anyone, but will mainly serve to help organize the thoughts in my brain. First, the old way:

preamble.

Submitted by jgrubb on Wed, 03/04/2009 - 10:59am

When in the course of your bands business, it becomes necessary to cast off your old, crappy website and the confusing, unnavigable interface which you present to the world as your first impression, and to assume the powers of PHP, CSS, XML, RoR, and other technologies not yet invented in the pursuit of a highly compelling online experience, a more meaningful dialogue with your fanbase, and the glorious rewards of possibly higher merch sales, a decent respect to the opinions of webmasters everywhere requires that I should declare the causes which impel me to dream of a better way....

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