Catfish Media

The Social Map of the Internet

2009-06-20T07:58:00.000-07:00

Came across this informative lecture on Twitter and like social networks.

Great lecture on TED:
Talks - Clay Shirky: How Twitter can make history"

Start Up $$ Needed

2009-05-04T15:12:00.000-07:00

VC Interest Sought

In the fall of 2004, in the pre-dawn hours of YouTube, I sat with a branding director/ mentor/colleague/friend (and client) in West New York NJ and told him of a concept I had. My concept was that musicians of various points of the planet could join together, collaborate and produce songs in each of their locations and share the files, using - Protools or Logic, and make an "open source" or "open system" type of production that all around the globe could add on to, musical parts or variations, et, in each of their various creative ways from wherever anyone may be online and connected via broadband.

As some may remember, it was during that fall that broadband bandwidth for ISP's in the US had just exceeded over 50 percent of home ISPs, “internet service providers.” It was my impression it would take some time before this would become viable in other countries due to bandwidth yet to have reached comparable levels of home usage. A month ago I had just learned of some friends in Sommerset, SA that just came online at home in a modest income community.

PLAYING FOR CHANGE

One hint of this concept arrived in 2005 via Playing For Change, (it was later posted on YT) which was followed by a subsequent concept on the newly arrived "YouTube" and an artist by the name of Terra Naomi. It was the subsequent arrangements and parts that musicians contributed to with Terra's "Say It's Impossible" original that solidified what I was thinking back in WNY that fall 2004. And the rest is history.

My vision at Catfish Friday Music, in late 2004, was that of a "portal" for musicians and producers to source another’s talent via this online community of musicians. This community would consist of musicians with home studios tooled with Digital Audio Workstations (DAW) using Protools, Logic Audio, Cubase, (and then later "Garage Band"), since prices for these platforms were becoming more affordable.

Four and one half years later, and with GarageBand selling at $ 99.00, and most new electronic keyboards equipped with USB interface means, now couldn’t be more fitting a time for this community to arrive.

TERRA NAOMI

TERRA NAOMI & FRIENDS (Ver 1.5)

To "Twit or not to Twit, or Tweet"

2009-04-16T05:46:00.000-07:00

Dear Cspan
Thank you for considering whether to “Twit or not to Twit.”
(segment up for grabs?)
This phenomenon certainly has gotten me a bit tweeting crazed with whether I should be twitten around with every passing ting I may be up to during the day.. I can’t help but think this is aftershock genius of Rove and Cheney and the governments intent to get into every aspect of our personal lives, illegal wire taps followed by indemnifying the phone companies from liability after allowing the wire taps. Why do that when you can vibe and buzz a start up that is the next best thing on Madison Avenue - that does the job for you less all the lawyer fees and congressional time other methods have proven to cost… If all are consenting to Twit and Tweet their every thought and thing they're doing during the day – we may as well ax the 4th Amendment in the spirit of redundancy reduction. And just think how much time and money it will save "Everytown USA" and their local authorities when it comes to finding out where and what you were doing any twitten moment in time.

Catfish Media - Away

2009-01-07T06:30:00.000-08:00

Hello and Happy New Year!
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