I should mention I'm in New Zealand, which unfortunately is behind most of the world in terms of internet
Set up a Delicious account, and use they're handy little Javascript-ed Bookmark ability to instantly save the sites you want to come back to for viewing on a better connection. Yes we're a little behind here in NZ but you can get some reasonable internet access with more than 1GB for reasonable money.
As a web developer, and having previously worked freelance before joining a company again, Google Apps really is th best option I've come across.
The company I work for also used to host email and we charged them for it however with servers going down and spam filters working incorrectly they were horrible to try and maintain and justify. Instead we set them up on Google Apps and they're off.
Your grandchildren will look at you funny when you suggest that one day, music could only be purchased on round pieces of plastic. They simply won't understand why something so trivial as "data" had to be purchased by means of a physical medium.
Could not agree more. Well put.
On the 'sales decline' tip though I did a small study into the 'decline' of music sales and a little survey with a few dozen people (yeah yeah i know, needs to be bigger to be accurate but i think you'd be surprised) revealed another interesting result... yes a lot of people's music purchasing habits have declined but it's primary because people get sick of music these days. Between commercial radio, commercials themselves and the quantity of popular music in everything from cafe's to bookstores, to movies and advertising, a popular song gets milked for all it's worth and people aren't interested in buying it. A lot of people that previously bought popular music weren't buying the stuff being jammed down their throat.
A somewhat moot point to yours and this article, but relevant to the CD sales argument i feel.
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I should mention I'm in New Zealand, which unfortunately is behind most of the world in terms of internet
Set up a Delicious account, and use they're handy little Javascript-ed Bookmark ability to instantly save the sites you want to come back to for viewing on a better connection. Yes we're a little behind here in NZ but you can get some reasonable internet access with more than 1GB for reasonable money.
As a web developer, and having previously worked freelance before joining a company again, Google Apps really is th best option I've come across. The company I work for also used to host email and we charged them for it however with servers going down and spam filters working incorrectly they were horrible to try and maintain and justify. Instead we set them up on Google Apps and they're off.
Your grandchildren will look at you funny when you suggest that one day, music could only be purchased on round pieces of plastic. They simply won't understand why something so trivial as "data" had to be purchased by means of a physical medium.
Could not agree more. Well put.
On the 'sales decline' tip though I did a small study into the 'decline' of music sales and a little survey with a few dozen people (yeah yeah i know, needs to be bigger to be accurate but i think you'd be surprised) revealed another interesting result... yes a lot of people's music purchasing habits have declined but it's primary because people get sick of music these days. Between commercial radio, commercials themselves and the quantity of popular music in everything from cafe's to bookstores, to movies and advertising, a popular song gets milked for all it's worth and people aren't interested in buying it. A lot of people that previously bought popular music weren't buying the stuff being jammed down their throat.
A somewhat moot point to yours and this article, but relevant to the CD sales argument i feel.