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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:

I made it to Vancouver. After six months of travelling in South and North America I am now a permanent resident of Canada and am settling in nicely. It’s is not a coincidence that we are arriving in the spring time: we wanted to make sure that we can see Vancouver from its prettiest side in our first few months in town. And pretty it is indeed.

Being ‘home’ also means it’s back to work for me so after a six month hiatus this blog will become active again. Lots of exciting things happening already and my notebook is full of notes, ideas, thoughts and to-dos. I loved my time off and feel very refreshed but I have to admit that I do look forward to getting back into ‘it’ again.

Saying that, my first day ‘in the office’ was actually last month I moderated my panel at SXSW which I thoroughly enjoyed. I came across this little video of our panel on YouTube so if you haven’t been there you will be able to see what we looked like. Unfortunately this is only 45 seconds long so that’s all you’ll be able to see.

My suggestion for SXSW 2011: make sure the first name is on the name signs as well, a few people came up to me after our talk calling me Mr Woost (which made me feel odd).

Those who listen to my show on a regular basis (and understand German) will see that Gerd Leonhard and myself share many ideas about the future of recorded music. He put together a brief overview on his thoughts in the YouTube video below.

It’s a great summary and there is a lot in those 10 mins – might be worth watching twice.

EDIT: as just pointed out by Chris, there is of course a second part to the above:

Many of my readers will of course be aware of Seth Godin but for those who haven’t heard of him: make sure you check out his blog, his books and start with the talk below from TED.

If you feel like me and you need some inspiration at work after a long weekend just watch this:

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

Haven’t posted a video in a while so it’s about time. Fever Ray is one half of The Knife (you will recognize her voice) and this is not just a great track but also a beautiful video. And you can almost see her face.

When I Grow Up from Fever Ray on Vimeo.

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.