Do you have any friends trying to compete with Google? How about Facebook? Really, any of your buddies trying to replicate what they do? OF COURSE NOT! THAT WOULD BE IDIOTIC! Hell, it’s even idiotic for Microsoft. Bing may finally have double digit penetration, but at enormous cost, billions have been lost, and profitability is […]

Howard doesn’t want to be on TV. Last week I found myself sitting in my car long past midnight listening to Howard Stern interview celebrities, everyone from Chevy Chase to T.I. Did you know T.I. was smart? All we hear about is the arrests, but after ten minutes on Howard I was a fan. And […]

We’re just not helping the wannabes. There are endless conferences, usually sponsored by governments, most of them generating profits to the promoters, that will agree to expose your music, that will tell you how to make it in business, but none of them criticize the music itself. Oh, there’s an occasional listening panel, but players […]

It was a nerdfest. I’m not saying cool no longer sells, but there’s a whole subset of charisma-challenged, intelligent acts speaking to an audience that knows every feature of its iPhone, which adopts technology instantly, call it the anti-"Jersey Shore" crowd. Used to be you wanted to be distant, mysterious. But that’s impossible in the […]