Archive for 2017/06


Stop Selling Files And CDs

I just read a great article in “Bloomberg Businessweek” on Adobe. It used to sell its Creative Suite, which includes Photoshop and Illustrator, for $1300-$1600. But then it switched to a subscription model and its user base went INSANE! They started a Change.org petition, 50,000 people signed it. And in the following year, 2013, Adobe’s […]

The Millennial Switch

That’s the reason I sent that Bonnaroo report yesterday, to illustrate it’s not the baby boomers’ business anymore, it’s not even Generation X’s. We’ve been inundated with stories about the survival of classic rock bands, their road numbers, and the legacies of the early MTV acts, this is obscuring a fact that is becoming self-evident, […]

Sponsorship

Now I know where not to bank & who not to fly with. Actions like this create a culture of fear. We must support free expression, not punish. https://t.co/GYYs4Fw8TG — Beau Willimon (@BeauWillimon) June 12, 2017   UPDATE: @BankofAmerica joins @Delta in pulling sponsorship of @PublicTheaterNY over Trump-themed #JuliusCaesar. https://t.co/Ln2LBz7GpU — BroadwayWorld (@BroadwayWorld) June 12, […]

The Grateful Dead Movie

He got locked in the box of being Jerry Garcia. This is not the movie I expected it to be. If you’re looking for the Altamont story, an in-depth analysis of the band’s keyboardists and their deaths, this flick is not for you. Actually, I’m not sure this film will satisfy anybody, even the hardest […]