Spot on, Coolfer

For this next post, I am going to profile a similar blog which from which I will be pulling some information in the future. The blog is called Coolfer , and its description reads:

Coolfer is a New York-based blog that covers music and the music industry. Started in August of 2003 as a way to expose the fledgling blogosphere to the insights of a person within the music industry, Coolfer.com has grown to become a respected and widely read source of news and opinion.

Also located in the about section of the site is a description of the blogger behind it:

Glenn Peoples has worked in the music industry for over eight years and founded Coolfer.com while working and living in New York City. He currently lives in Nashville and attends Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management.

Glenn posts nearly every day (at least every weekday, and often more than one post per day). He’s quite dedicated to his blog, often writing lengthy and detailed posts on his topics. He generally keeps his posts to the realm of business, and makes this clear to his readers. He explains:

Coolfer.com does not review albums or concerts. If there is an interesting business-related aspect to a new release, Coolfer.com will try to mention it.

The technorati authority rank of Coolfer is not as high as some blogs (it sits at 288), but it is highly regarded by such industry types as senior editor at Rolling Stone magazine Nathan Bracket. Glenn’s business school background is quite apparent in his writing—he often blogs about the consequences that certain actions will have on whatever business it is he happens to be discussing. He is professional about it, however, admitting weak points in his arguments when they do appear, and keeping his observations concise and on topic.

Out of Glenn’s more recent posts, two stood out to me as being particularly interesting and relevant to my blog. The first was his EMI Recap: Hands' Letter To Investors, Rumors About Recorded Music, which chronicled the troubling debt of media giant EMI.

The second was A Familiar Dilemma, in which he compared the plight of an author who was tricked into leaking his book over the internet to record companies who do not know how to deal with the file-sharing world on the internet.

Both these blogs were relevant to mine because they deal with problems in the music industry which were brought by the internet changing the way things are done. Future blogs will delve more deeply into these issues, but for now I’m merely pointing out these topics on Coolfer as interesting and worth reading.

Although I will be checking for new information on Coolfer, my blog will differ in that it will not be limited only to the business side of the industry. This is, of course, a huge part of my blog and I will often blog about the troubles that companies like the abovementioned labels continue to immerse themselves in; however, I will also discuss the technological components of the industry and the effects they have on it.

I enjoyed stumbling upon Coolfer and I hope you will check it out too!