023 The Functional Nerds
In the 23rd episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by returning 3rd Nerd Aidan Moher and our youngest recruit to date – Dan Goodman! This week, we chat about NASA, crowdsourcing wake up music for astronauts, digital distribution, Stargate Atlantis, creative commons licensing, Cory Doctorow, free tv, pay tv, bit torrent, record companies, the music industry, the long tail, publishing, ebooks, ereaders, Caprica, the channel formerly known as Scifi, Stargate Unierse, Haven, Jeff Vandemeer, A Dribble of Ink, Literary Musings and bandcamp.com.
Featuring Original Music by:
John Anealio – Sundog (instrumental)
John Anealio – I should be writing (acoustic)
© 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio
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Good episode, and nice song John.
Yes, the free model is one to consider. The biggest quandry is to figure how much. Most of us want to create full time and many abhor our day jobs. The prospect of making money to go full time is so very appealing that it becomes a difficult decision to release all that hard work for free.
But, yes. Maybe it is necessary.