SXSW Road Trip

Merin and I decided to drive from San Francisco to Austin for SXSW. We're bogging about being on the road to SXSW and what we discover along the way.

We're also road testing internet radio (SomaFM on the iPhone especially) and finding that unfortunately there are too many places on the interstate in the southwest that it still doesn't work reliably.

In addition to the blog, we're posting some updates on SomaFM's twitter (be sure to follow @somafm!)

Speaking on Panel at AES show in San Francisco 10/5/08

I'll be speaking at The Audio Engineering Society show in San Francisco, Sunday October 5, 2008; 9am - 10:45am. Yes, they cruelly scheduled me for a Sunday morning time slot!

The panel is titled, "Internet Streaming - Audio Quality, Measurement, & Monitoring". I'll mostly be talking about audio quality issues and a bit about monitoring (SomaFM developed a bunch of in-house tools to monitor our streams which work pretty well).

The official description: Streaming has become a provider of audio and video content to the public. Now that the public has recognized the medium, the provider needs to deliver the content with a quality comparable to other mediums.

The Moderator is David Bialik. Panelists include Geir Skaaden, Neural Audio; Skip Pizzi, Radio World; Ray Archie, CBS Radio; Rusty Hodge, SomaFM; and Benjamin Larson, Streambox Inc.

NAB- National Association of Broadcasters Show in Vegas

I'll be at NAB all day Monday through Wednesday, April 14th-16th. Monday the 14th is the RAIN Internet Radio Summit (and I'm supposed to be on a panel there), the rest of the time I'll be at NAB proper... mostly in the "multimedia hall" but spending a small amount of time in the Radio hall at the LVCC.

San Francisco Music Tech Summit

Here's the tentative schedule for the San Francisco Music Tech Summit next week.

If you haven't heard about the summit yet, here's a description from their site:

The SanFran MusicTech Summit will bring together digital thought leaders from the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as from all around the country to the region which currently leads the way in innovating (both socially, and technologically) new ways of interacting with both music, and musicians. We will be working long term to help enable a sustainable, ongoing, Northern California based music and related technology market.

It all happens at the Hotel Kabuki in Japantown, San Francisco, Monday, February 25, 2008. You can get tickets here.

Panel Room Location	Sakura Room (Upstairs)		Spring Room (Downstairs)
8:00 am – 9:00 am	Registration & Breakfast
9:00 am – 9:10 am	Welcome and Opening Remarks by Brian Zisk
9:10 am – 9:20 am		How To Web 2.0 enable your Live Event David Spark, Spark Media Solutions
9:20 am – 10:20 am		R&D: Recommendations & Discovery   Mike Troiano, matchmine - CEO Benjamin Massey, Double V3 Jason Herskowitz, Mystrands Paul Lamere, Sun Microsystems Sandy Pearlman, McGill University / Producer	Hot Topics in Music & Technology Law   Tony Berman, Esq. - BEAT Law Matt Burrows, Esq. - Senior Counsel, Apple iTunes Division Cyndney Tune, Esq. - Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman Ann Chaitovitz, Esq. – Future of Music Coalition
10:20 am – 10:30 am		Break
10:30 am – 11:30 am		New Technology Presentations   Lucas Gonze- Yahoo! Music Player Demo   Paul Schreiber – Apple Demo   Michael Robertson – New Technology   Special Guest – If project launches in time for event!	Issues in Music - Tech Licensing   Whitney Broussard, Esq. Selverne, Mandelbaum & Mintz Josh Wattles, Esq. – Bingham McCutchen Collette Vogele, Esq. – Vogele & Associates
11:45 am – 1:00 pm		Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm –1:55 pm		Conversation with Ann Chaitovitz The Future of The Future of Music Coalition Executive Director, Future of Music Coalition 1:00 – 1:20   Conversation with John Perry Barlow The History of Everything Grateful Dead Lyricist, Harvard Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation Co-Founder 1:20 – 1:40	The Distribution Revolution   Matt Lazluk, President, Iris Distribution Raj Singh, ToneThis, Founder Dave Kostiner, Co-Founder IODA / Davis Shapiro
1:55 pm – 2:45 pm		Streaming: The Future of Radio?   Kurt Hanson Video Presentation 1:40 – 1:55   Rusty Hodge, SomaFM Bill Goldsmith, Radio Paradise Tom Conrad, Pandora Dave Benson, Program Director, KFOG 104.5 Kurt Hanson, RAIN	The Creator's Perspective   Kush Aroura, Innovative Artist & Producer / Surya Dub Sharky Laguana, Creeper Lagoon / Mixpal / Bandago Special Guest (To Be Announced)
2:45pm – 3:15		Break
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm		Artists, Copyrights & Technologies   Ted Cohen, TAG Strategic Samantha Murphy, SmTV Kevin Arnold, Founder, IODA Rob Lord, Songbird Katina Bishop, EFF     Sponsored by Digital Freedom Campaign	Promoting Music in Web 2.0   Brian Dear, Eventful, Founder & Chairman Andy Gadiel, Jambase, Founder & President Ariel Hyatt, Cyper PR, Founder Maureen Herman, Fuzz, Sr. Dir. Business Development Corey Denis, Rumblefish, Director of Marketing

 

4:15 pm – 5:00 pm		Social Networking & Music   Glenn Otis Brown, YouTube Theda Sandiford, Marketing Guru Ali Partovi, iLike Michael Doernberg, Reverb Nation	Room closed to prepare for cocktail party.
5:00 pm – 5:15 pm		Break
5:15 pm – 6:00 pm		Show Me the Money! Business Models That Work   Jeff Daniel, Rock River Music Jordan Ritter, True Believer Steve Weisz, Inticketing, CEO Andrew Stess, Music IP, CEO Michael Robertson, MP3 Tunes. Founder
6:00 cocktail party		Cocktail Party!   Live Performance by Samantha Murphy - SMTV

 

 

 

 

Save Net Radio benefit Sunday, July 1st

If you're in San Francisco, on Sunday, July 1st we will be sponsoring an early evening (6pm-10pm) event at Bottom of the Hill to benefit the SaveNetRadio cause. The event will feature semi-acoustic mini-sets from Ted of The Heavenly States, Matt Lutz of The Herms (amongst other performers), raffles for tickets, tee shirts and other cool stuff. Elise from SomaFM's Indie Pop Rocks and Ted from Bagel Radio will be sharing the DJing duties. IODA, SonicLiving, The Owl Magazine, and MyOpenBar are all helping to co-sponsor, it is going to be a great way to spend an early summer Sunday evening.