Archive for 2011/07


Adele At The ITunes Festival

No dancing, no explosions, just music. Music lives on the Internet. This wouldn’t work half as well on the big screen, but sitting in front of the computer you feel like you’re literally on stage, in front of the very first row, Adele looks positively human. The lack of a scorched earth publicity campaign makes […]

The Wrong Side

Is anybody other than the major labels complaining the Internet has made music worse? That free music has ruined the incentive to create? That if we don’t overpay we’ll get lousier tunes? This fiction has been created by a well-compensated class that doesn’t realize it’s involved in an epic battle between the haves and the […]

ISPs/Content Providers

To Slow Piracy, Internet Providers Ready Penalties Beware of the copyright bullies. Mickey Mouse was about to go into the public domain. So what did Michael Eisner, head of Disney, do? Pay his lobbyists to get an extension of copyright. Yup, it was just that simple. That’s how America works. Is it good for the […]

Ten Thousand Saints

I’m reading a well-reviewed book that was almost impossibly hard to get into that’s got me so riveted I want to forgo my regular life and keep reading it. But now that it’s passed the halfway point it’s dawning upon me that the more I read the closer I’m getting to the end, and I […]