Dan muses that the new media are actually tools, unlike the old media which were and are media. You could quibble with Dan that blogging software is to blogs and wiki software is to wikis as studios are to TV, i.e., that there are tools involved in all these cases. But then you’d be missing Dan’s point, which is not a quibble but quite a big one. To me, Dan is presenting the analog to the argument that the Internet is primarily about voices and conversations. Of course, I would think that since it fits nicely with the “argument” I made at all three presentations I gave over the past two days that blogs are not media.

In the course of this post, Dan writes:

In an interview with Larry Magid on ITConversations, RealNetwork’s Rob Glaser said [at minute 2:45] that in a given month over 90% of Rhapsody’s one million songs are played at least once and the top 100 songs make up only 1% of the listens.

Wow. [Technorati tags: DanBricklin media rhapsody]

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