Interesting posts about media as business

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I wanted to highlight some of the posts recently about the media industry:

Logan talks about the death of the album as a result of a new emphasis on downloading single songs as result of technological changes. This is an interesting example of how technological change results in changes in cultural products. It's also interesting how we attach nostalgic value to technologies of the past, and tend to distrust the effects of new technologies even as we embrace progress. There are more and more collectors of vinyl records these days, for instance.

Chris explores the potential of the internet to aid new artists.

Matt takes a look at MTV, while Logan also examined the current Billboard top 20.