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Welcome To My Site

My name is Junie Morrison and welcome to my Website.  I am a producer, writer, musician and “internet-ologist.” Through the years, I have had many great experiences, been a part of many interesting music groups and have met many more facinating personalities within and without the music business.

From time to time, I have been known to communicate with the people who come across my site, my true fans who are usually the only ones who venture this far into the inter-Sphere, this far off the beaten beat, in order to find me.  Some become members of my site but most just come by often, to see what is here.  For those of you who have, this welcome is for you.  For those who haven’t yet, this welcome is for you too and I look forward to meeting you soon.

Many of my fans have found me here, over the years but many do not know that I have a presence on the internet.  If you know someone who is looking for the funk I make, give them my url so that we can share the funk, the stories and new ideas.

You can visit my fully owned and operated store, use my forums, to let your own voices be heard or my Blogtroplis (you are here now), where I will post stories of bands that I have worked with and ideas around what I see happening with the business of music and the world in general, today.  I invite you to click around the site, make use of the resources you find here and enjoy.

I do have “a few active Facebook fan pages” and a Twitter account but not a MySpace page ( although I hear that there is a JS Theracon tribute site that one of my fans set up on MySpace ) but I do have a place-hold at MySpace Music [myspace.com/juniemorrison], to keep the squatters at bay!

In the meantime, I promise to bring the ‘funk’ to you here, in any way possible and to give you an idea of what it was and is like inside the funk I’ve found.

-JM

Can You Fix That Thar Leak?

I guess that we’ve all heard about the newest Jay-Z project recently.  If not, you’ve probably been living under a rock because Jay-Z’s album, entitled “Blueprint 3” was big news during the last couple of days.  Not so much for the music it contained, but because of a new trend sweeping through the already troubled music business.  Point being, Jay-Z’s greatly anticipated LP was leaked nearly two weeks before it was due to show up, in store.  It is amazing to think that this can happen, even amid the tight security employed by Atlantic Records, prior to the release.  Is this a good thing, you might ask?

Blame the Sub-Producers

Some speculate that the reason we seem to be seeing more and more leaks these days, is because there just are too many producers involved in the making of these projects.  Creating projects has become more highly-collaborative than it was “back in the day”.

It would also seem that the term “super producer” would not be possible without a plethora of sub-producers being involved in making the final product.  This extended involvement is being blamed for the increase in project leaks.

Increasing Prospects

It would seem that security over major projects, is a thing of the past, as seen by recent releases of both music and films.  Take X-Men Origins: Wolverine, for instance.  Most industry insiders believe that prior to the much publicized “production clone” leak, the buzz and the prospects for the X-Men movie, seemed lower than expected.  Some even suspected that Fox (and Myspace) owner, Rupert Murdoch was responsible for the internet based clone leak of the film.  Even so, some who saw both cuts said that the so-called unfinished work clone, was identical to the theatrical release.

One thing that I do find interesting about the leak phenomena is that you never hear anything about any follow-up actions being taken.  This makes me wonder if we’ve heard the true reasons for this recent rash of high-profile leaks.

Perhaps we should get Fox network’s Mulder and Scully on the case!

Oh How The Mighty

With a 30 percent layoff announced recently, The once mighty MySpace has decided to reduce its US-based staffing to below 1000 workers.  The cuts have been announced across nearly every division of the company.  What went wrong, you ask?  Bad Karma?  No plan for network scaling?  The competition?

More often than not, great ideas in this day and age are almost always, not fully thought out.  We as a society are being sent reeling due to our sudden detachment from the industrial reality of the last century, to the ‘must connect or perish’ network mentality of today.

You’re Gonna Call It What

I’m sure that when the guys at Twitter decided to go with their application, their outlook should have been to “fail and fail fast!”.  “We can make it as long as Google buys us before we ruin our lives and our bank accounts!”, I can hear them saying.  Well Google didn’t buy Twitter but bought Jaiku instead, which is another story in itself.

Without a plan to monetize a company, a startup like MySpace or even Twitter for that matter, can be surprised and overwhelmed by the sudden popularity around their “well our app sucks but we’re gonna upload it to the server anyway” approach and how that approach can accidentally scale.

Mis-Adventures In Server Space

Let’s face it.  Server space and bandwidth cost lots of money and if no plan for monetizing is present at the forefront of a venture, then the best one can probably hope for is an ‘adventure’.

Case in point, newly hired MySpace chief Owen Van Natta, was quoted as saying “Simply put, our staffing levels were bloated and hindered our ability to be an efficient and nimble team-oriented company...”.

Really?

Why not just blame it on the Bossa Nova while you’re at it!

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