The Costanza

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Today’s blog is about the reinvention of the music industry. Music is not dying completely, maybe CD’s are dying but music will always live on, just in different forms.

I have two links to post today. But I guess I could do it in two different posts on two different days just to add to my content a little.

I am currently having some issues working out jargon from one link I’ve found. Using abbreviations makes things very hard. Terms like RIAA and DRM are abbreviations a lot of people would have to google repeditively to find out about.

However, this is a good piece about the transformation of the music industry.

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It seems like a lot of what I find on the internet is older stuff but always very interesting. This is a piece from BBC News in the year 2005.

Alex Kapranos of the band Franz Ferdinand believes that the government needs to have a bigger role in Scottish music.

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“Remember Jerry, it’s not a lie if you believe it” – George Costanza.

I have decided to start every blog with a quote from either Mr Costanza, a politician/about politics or a musician/about music. This is just my way of personalising my blog and maybe making the things I talk about a little more bearable.

What my blog will be about will be rather dry and although interesting, probably won’t be the most exciting thing everyone has ever read.
It turns out our choices are as I thought. Government, politics or the economy.

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The Costanza is my blog for school. The name of the blog and the ‘catchphrase’ are incorporating my favourite Seinfeld character (George Costanza) aswell as the general idea of what my blog will be about.
I’m told I have the mannerisms of Mr Costanza at times so adding that to my blog seemed important.
Our school blogs have to be on a certain topic chosen by our tutors. The topics are something along the lines of business, economics, politics etc but we’ve been told that we can fit any topic of our choice into that topic. Confused? Yea, so was I.

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