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Writing in the Guardian, journalist Simon Jenkins argues that publishers should learn from the lessons made by the music business rather than return to paywall media. He says that he viewed the evolution of the newspaper when he went to the Glastonbury music festival recently, and witnessed how people will still pay for the live experience:
The key must be to learn the lesson of the most tightly competitive medium of all: popular music. It has cast off its enslavement to recording studios and recast itself, almost in Victorian mode, as a mass movement for live [...]

Foot Pump Phone Chargers
Festival goers at Glastonbury, in the U.K., can charge their cell-phones through using a standard airbed foot pump, the type normally found all over festival sites. The Orange Gotwind power pump’s turbine is rotated at speeds of up to 2000 rpm from the air flow generated by the foot pump, this turbine then directly drives the small but powerful alternator. A 5 minute phone call will require approximately 1 minute of foot pumping.
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For the last couple of years, Orange has been giving away tickets to the much-hyped Glastonbury Festival in the UK through their Spot The Bull competition. They have just taken the wraps off this year’s contest. The basic rules of the game stay the same: they have put a real bull named Desmond in a real, secret field in the UK with a GPS device attached. If you can guess which of 64 squares in the field he will be in at 3pm every day, you’ll be entered into a draw to win one of 18 pairs of tickets.
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