Archive for 2010/06


The Long Haul

1. Focus on the music.  Get it to the point where the audience only needs to hear it once to get it. 2. Let people listen for free.  Then sell the physical product as a souvenir, and put out unique product online. 3. One great track is better than ten mediocre ones. 4. Don’t worry […]

Even Lady GaGa Is Half-Price

From: scott gaedeSubject:     Lady Gaga offering 1/2 price tickets in ManchesterDate: June 3, 2010 9:33:20 AM PDT Thought you would find this interesting, Bob – she’s dumping tickets at 1/2 price on the day of show. TICKETS FOR LADY GAGAWhere: Manchester Evening News Arena, Manchester  When: THURSDAY, 03/06/2010, doors at 19:00, starts at 19:00 […]

District 9

Have you seen this movie? I was scavenging around the On Demand choices, looking for something to do my back exercises to, when I stumbled upon it on Starz.  Yes, I get Starz, I get ’em all, and I pay for ’em too, and I never watch ’em, which was incentive enough to screen this […]

The Death Of Pandora?

Uh-oh. With AT&T announcing limited wireless data plans, the unavailability of an unlimited plan unless you are a legacy customer, what does this mean for services that depend on streaming via the cloud, like Pandora? Pandora may be making money, but once its users find out they’ve got to pay to listen to that music, […]