“Rolling Stone” has some of the best music news on the internet. But now you’ve got to pay for it. Sure, you can go to other sites and get an unlimited plethora, a morass too deep and unwieldy to investigate, but “Rolling Stone” has a limited number of articles, most of them interesting, oftentimes including […]

Priscilla Block I’d never heard of this woman before today. But right now she’s got the #1 track on iTunes… WHO? So I started Googling, so far it’s just the country outlets with the story, not even “Billboard” has run one, HitsDailyDouble is silent…but Priscilla Block’s song “Just About Over You” is charting ahead of […]

I’ve got three copies. Two e-mailed, one sent by iMessage. And the book business keeps raising digital prices and trying to keep the paradigms of the past in place. The dirty little secret of the book business is most people don’t want what they’re offering. And when they do, piracy/copyright infringement is as big a […]

They broke the number one rule of the internet. You start from the bottom up. Downloads are anemic, because most people are unaware of the product, all the hype has been in traditional news outlets, and the readers of those might have credit cards, but they are not the target audience for a service like […]