Contributors

Shelley Taylor

In her latest re-invention, and there have been many, Shelley has just launched a little company that has big aspirations. Version 1, the blog. Version 2, the site. Version 3, world wide web domination. Stay tuned. Before this she founded and ran a research, publishing and consulting firm (Shelley Taylor & Associates) where she is best known for criticising any site or user interface bold enough to number in the top 1000 in the world. In her previous rendering she was responsible for identifying the scary, and so far incurable, consumer diseases: Post-Transaction Anxiety Disorder and Shopping Cart Abandonment Syndrome (often blamed for the deaths of many ecommerce sites), Mad Couch Disease (linked to horrible interactive television experiences) and more recently, Digital Deficit Disorder (caused by poorly designed digital entertainment sites).

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Scott Cohen

Co-founder of The Orchard, the leading digital distributor of independent record labels with offices in 23 countries. Scott spends his life on airplanes, at music conferences around the globe, lecturing at universities and wherever there is WIFI. Those who know him no longer wonder what he is doing, teleporting himself around the world, seeming to be in all places at the same time. He is living and breathing digital entertainment, finding and licensing new catalogues, and evangelizing the new digital models. In his free time, he manages the Raveonettes (SonyBMG) and is learning to parlo Italiano.

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André Taliercio

Relentless entrepreneur, André likes to play visionary. He lives in the future. But with a strong background in finance, his passion is also in economics, sociology and new technologies. He has been working with the Internet since 1994 when he realized how much it would change people’s lives forever. With multifaceted competencies, André likes business development and marketing, and keeping in touch with consumers. They inspire him. He lives between Paris and New York.

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Tristen Hennigs

Tristen Hennigs spent the first part of her career in middle America in a confused musical state. The routine of mornings spent training in opera and night time performances in a rock band was made complete by singing in the afternoon as a session musician on ads that included Nestlés chocolate bars and frozen peas. A change in direction ultimately allowed Tristen to fully embrace the classical music arena, She found herself in London, via Washington D.C., working in the artist management business. After yet another side step via the International Press Office of Sony Classical, and then back into artist and project management, Tristen now splits her time between hanging out on the fringes of the music industry and trying not to be confused whilst teaching yoga.