Music used to be regional.  And despite being featured in all the Warner Brothers hype, nowhere I lived ever played Montrose on the radio. But now the satellite’s got a national footprint. Which is how I ended up hearing "Good Rockin’ Tonight". I was driving up a leafy boulevard, the kind upon which XM maintains […]

He not busy being born is busy dying "It’s Alright Ma, (I’m Only Bleeding)"Bob Dylan I’m reading the new "BusinessWeek".  Or as it now says on the front page, "Bloomberg BusinessWeek".  And that makes all the difference. I noticed it last week.  The usual tech suspect was gone.  The guy who was a mealy-mouthed me-too […]

Usually, they die during Christmas.  The axiom is, if you make it through the holidays, all the way to January 1st, you’re golden, you’re safe. How great was Willie Mitchell? Let’s just say without him, Al Green was never able to ascend to the same height.  And that was positively stratospheric. Thank god there have […]

http://twitter.com/mashable: Tweetdeck Infiltrates the News Room The key is not to debate Twitter, but to use it and see if it benefits you. Twitter is great for breaking stories, for canvassing users for information.  And now, a news organization is utilizing it because of these benefits. Installing Tweetdeck on newsroom computers is akin to installing […]