UK
Albums
Week of March 5

The last week of February in the UK charts had a milestone that I personally was quite excited about: Scottish prog group Mogwai scored their first #1 album, As the Love Continues. This week, they’ve dropped to #23, but that’s still pretty good for Mogwai. Since their first release in 1997, they’ve had ever stronger…[Read more]

Thanks, Sebastian – I’m afraid I don’t have access to MIT’s Zotero group, but happy to say that COPIM’s Work Package 3 team (Izabella Penier, Tom Grady (@scholtom) and Martin Eve) have made references from their report available in COPIM’s Zotero group – the WP3-specific Revenue Models collection is available at

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New on Knowledge Futures Groups’ Commonplace: Open Knowledge Infrastructures in Times of the Pandemic. https://doi.org/10.21428/6ffd8432.44d61468

(a reflective piece including some lessons that we’ve learned during the first year of COPIM)

Open Position: COPIM WP5 Product Manager for Open Medatada System (Full-time or Part-time) @ Open Book Publishers. Application deadline: April 15, 2021.

https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/open-position-product-manager-ft-or-pt/

Session one: Voices from the Open Access Books Community – Scope

The video recording of the main session is here: https://youtu.be/iFeZTRhbKpk

• The chat from the meeting is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wsILEU7FcnkZnUafdUIN4WUoT8syPPYNmPDT0Hcv4xs/edit?usp=sharing

The overview of current OA books funder policies that we…[Read more]

Open Position: COPIM Research Associate in Archiving and Preserving Open Access Books @ Loughborough University

https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/research-associate-in-archiving-and-preserving-open-access-books-loughborough-university/release/1

Hi everyone,

I would like to invite you to participate in a short 8-10 minute survey on citizen science funding in the SSH, part of the Collaborative Engagement on Societal Issues (COESO) project.

The survey is on citizen science funding in the SSH and the results will help the COESO project in identifying funding needs for different types of…[Read more]

Here are the next courses from module 11 all the way to module 25

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Class #11: —Festivals
-Jimi Hendrix, “Star Spangled Banner” & “Voodo Chile (Slight Return)” (live)
-Cream, “Sunshine of Your Love” & “Crossroads” (live)
-Country Joe and the Fish, “Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” (live)

Class #12: —White Masks
-Led Zeppelin, “The Lemon So…[Read more]

March catch-up for the US here.

USA

Billboard 200

Week of March 6

1. Dangerous: The Double Album, Morgan Wallen
2. Positions, Ariana Grande
3. Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon, Pop Smoke
4. The Voice, Lil Durk
5. Shiesty Season, Pooh Shiesty

Week of March 13

Not a lot of commentary for this month, because as you can see, there hasn’t…[Read more]

For the week ending February 12-13
USA
Well, last week’s prediction that Morgan Wallen, who was recently dropped by his record label over his use of racial slurs, was not long for the top 40 turned out to be wrong. I should know better, with America. Dangerous sits at #1 for the fourth week.

The Hot 100 has no major changes in the top…[Read more]

This is a commentary on Napster by a wonderful professor at uPenn, Peter Fader and Wendy Moe, written twenty years ago. This is when piracy was becoming very widespread. This analysis of the CD market is instructional for users of big data. It shows how much information available to company executives was ignored back in those days. Today big data…[Read more]

Another bio. My old boss just updated me how much Bhaskar Menon was a mentor to him, even after retirement.

Bhaskar Menon, EMI and Capitol Records Legend, Dies at 86