{"id":37374,"date":"2012-02-12T00:50:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T00:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/as-an-old-school-internet-guy-and-a-massive\/"},"modified":"2012-02-12T00:50:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T00:50:53","slug":"as-an-old-school-internet-guy-and-a-massive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/as-an-old-school-internet-guy-and-a-massive\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As an old-school internet guy *and* a massive music nerd, I\u2019ve spent a lot of time thinking about the future of the music industry (and similar content businesses) over the past 15 years and I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that most traditional publishing models are totally unsustainable at this point, and are just being kept on life support by copyright, DRM and other types of artificially-imposed scarcity. But the overwhelming sense of community and real passion I\u2019ve found in dealing with all the \u201cYou Are Listening To\u201d artists in the last year makes me very optimistic that this violent restructuring of the music \u201cindustry\u201d is actually the best thing that could possibly have happened to \u201cmusic\u201d itself, and so it\u2019s a real honor to be a part of that, to whatever extent I\u2019m able to contribute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Eric Eberhardt, creator of  <a href=\"http:\/\/youarelistening.to\/\">You are listening to<\/a>, a website mixing live police radio feed with ambient music, kind of blew our minds with his Q&amp;A. Read the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/blog\/featured-creator-eric-eberhardt-of-you-are-listeni\">on our blog<\/a>. Check out his project page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1851942952\/you-are-listening-to-los-angeles\">here<\/a>. (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/kickstarter.tumblr.com\/\">kickstarter<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an old-school internet guy *and* a massive music nerd, I\u2019ve spent a lot of time thinking about the future of the music industry (and similar content businesses) over the past 15 years and I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that most traditional publishing models are totally unsustainable at this point, and are just being kept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9IO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}