The record industry decline actually began the day the Sony Walkman was released.

Up until the Walkman’s innovation, people shared the experience of music. They bought records and played them for their friends. But once they had a portable player, with earphones firmly nestled in their ears, sharing music was no longer important. And by the time downloading was introduced, listening on your own was well established.

Let’s face facts. Americans want to be entertained. The average American family is watching American Idol, Hannah Montana, and buying Guitar Hero and Grand Theft Auto. The record business is being given a real run for its money. Those shiny music discs are just no competition for what is considered entertainment these days.

Many in the business are trying to solve this difficult problem. But to solve it, you need to understand what the problem really is.

From KCRW’s On The Beat, find out why the music business needs to adjust to meet the market rather than hoping the market will come and meet them.

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Tom Brokaw speaks passionately about the transformative power of technology at MIT.

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For the past month, we’ve been working on a new stats application that makes checking disk usage and log files easier than ever. We’re proud to announce that version 1.0 is now public. The new statistics application is integrated into the GravityLab Member Center, under the “Snap-Ins” menu button. Current features are:

• Check disk usage and see how much space you’ve got left
• View log files within a selected date range
• Download log files to Excel’s .xls format and the widely-supported .csv format
• Sortable data tables – Logs detail when data was accessed, who accessed it, and how much data was transferred

We’ve already got more features planned for our next version, which will be coming soon! So stay tuned for more updates, and enjoy the new feature!