Hypebot Revisted: The Best Of Bylin’s Essays

As we continue our 5th Anniversary retrospective, it's only fitting that we revisit some of the essays I've written over the past year as well.  September 12 marked my one year as a writer for Hypebot and I'm already amazed with not only where its taken me in such a short time, but the future that's being revealed too. 

• Spilled On Canvas, Music Marketing For 21st Century Bands (First Blog Post Ever)
• The Fall Of Communization And The Rise Of The Music Fan (First Hypebot Post)
• We Are The Curator, The Light and The Frame
• Consumer or Music Lover: You Decide
• You Give Free A Bad Name
• Tribes: Music For A Movement

• The Rihanna Challenge
• The Evolution Of Tribal Curiosity
• The Tipping Point Of The Ballad
• The Social Music Evolution (Part 1) & (Part 2)
• Top 10 Reasons Radio Stations Are Bleeding Money
• 10 Music Industry Trends & Questions
• Maximizing Your Music Experience (Part 1) & (Part 2) & (Part 3)
• Kyle Bylin Named Hypebot Associate Editor  
• The Personalized Music Experience: History and Evolution
• The Digital Native Series
•  The Converging of Cultures: MTV & YouTube (Part 1) & (Part 2) & (Part 3)
• The Paradoxes of Choice in Digital Culture
• "The Death of the CD-Release Complex"
• FREE!: The Kind of Music Nobody Wants To Own
• Pandora: Putting the “ME” Back into Mass-Media
• "Turn Album Off:" Navigating Fractured Collections
• “The Death of the CD-Release Complex” (Part 2)
• Throwaway Culture:  When the MP3 Hits the Desktop Recycle Bin
• Protecting Cultural Norms:  How We Project the Present onto the Future
• Killing Itself to Live: How the Record Industry Conceived It’s Own Demise
• Conditioned To Steal: Popular Music and Obsolescence in America
  
• Does Holywood Share The Same Problems As The Record Industry?
• Cradle to Grave: The Untold Story of Digital Natives