MIDEM & MIDEMNET –The destination for music business connections and knowledge - MIDEM

MIDEM & MIDEMNET –The destination for music business connections and knowledge - MIDEM: "MIDEM & MidemNet
28 Jan - 01 Feb 2012, Cannes, France"

Here's the professional music industry's annual conference in France....

Another important music conference is SXSW (South by Southwest). Have you heard of it?

james

800+ TEDTalks as of Feb11 sorted by length

800+ TEDTalks as of February 2011 sorted by length

I thought you might enjoy this list of 875 Ted talks... There's a quick description of each one.

james

BBC News - Obama's State of the Union address

BBC News - Obama's State of the Union address:

"Obama's State of the Union Address"
This has an interactive script and also some interesting remarks by political commentators concerning the different things that Obama says.

You can leave a comment to say what you think!
I hope to get to talk to Xavier and Thomas tomorrow!

all the best
james

TED Blog | Behind the TEDTalk: New mini documentary starring Sir Ken and Raghava KK

TED Blog | Behind the TEDTalk: New mini documentary starring Sir Ken and Raghava KK:

"Behind the TEDTalk: New mini documentary starring Sir Ken and Raghava KK"

an interesting 8 minute documentary about preparing!

hope to speak with all three of you this week.

james

Rate-your-company startup Glassdoor raises $12M

Rate-your-company startup Glassdoor raises $12M:

"Glassdoor, a site where users can share details about their jobs, their companies, and their salaries, has raised $12 million in its third round of funding.

It has been more than a year since we last wrote about Glassdoor, but the Sausalito, Calif. company says its traffic grew 147 percent in 2010 and that it now receives 3.5 million unique visitors every month.

In order to get access to most of the data in Glassdoor, users have to contribute some job-related information of their own, which helps ensure that the data keeps growing. Besides company reviews and salary data, users can also share job interview questions, office photos, and CEO ratings. Glassdoor says it has information on 110,000 companies in more than 110 countries."


See you all on Monday! (That is all the first year students and the new Masters students joining the class in Semester 2. We're in a new room: F609.

Hope you've had a great vacation!

james

ps: Note to the students who are leaving the class... send me a note and I'll take you off the mailing list and blog if you wish.