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During SXSW in 2010 I was interviewed by the guys behind the PressPausePlay documentary which they call ‘a film about hope, fear and digital culture’. I missed the film’s screening at this year’s SXSW so 18 months after it was recorded I saw my interview for the first time last week. I still stand by what I was saying last year.

You can download the full documentary in HD on their website.

As a side note, it’s because of PressPausePlay that I now have an IMDB page.

We only did this for fun but now watching it again I’m actually making sense. This was after six hours of interviewing people so a bit of a surprise.

Jonas Woost on Jonas Woost from thenumber creative on Vimeo.

I recently went to Brisbane, Australia to attend the wonderful Big Sound conference. Other than speaking on a panel about the future of the music industry, I met some great people, saw very good bands and did a few interviews about how I see the recording industry develop at the moment. This is one of the videos:

I’m not sure if The Economist asked Joi the questions about privacy in reaction to the current Facebook criticism but I very much agree with him when he says that you should “own the conversation around yourself”. Interesting interview:

Arttu was so kind to upload my short interview for the Finnish 6pm news to YouTube so I can embed it here as well:

Thanks to everyone who came down to our OpenMusicMedia meet last night. Anyone who missed it can check out this short interview with Songkick‘s Ian Hogarth which nicely sums up what we talked about.

Big thanks to Andrew Dubber for recording this, I think there might be some more footage coming. Thanks also to David Emery who took some great pictures and added them to our flickr group.

Ian Hogarth – Songkick from Andrew Dubber on Vimeo.

Even though the attendance was down at Midem, I (and most people I talked to) had an enjoyable time and it was certainly worthwhile making the trip this year. Everyone I wanted to meet was there and there was an interesting vibe in the air: everyone wants to get on with their business and make it through 2009. It looks like a tricky one.