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Concert Streaming

Greetings from Aspen Colorado where the snow is shitty and the hang is great. Yup, it’s the annual Aspen Live conference Aspen Live which used to be populated by label people and now is almost exclusively attended by those focused on touring. Because that’s where the money is. And the way you make money today […]

NASCAR Lessons

Remember when NASCAR was the sport of the future? Doing boffo at not only the b.o, but on TV? When it appealed to all ages and all sexes and all ethnicities? Those days are through. NASCAR has cratered. Yesterday’s “Wall Street Journal” has got an article about it, check it out: Nascar’s Leaky Fuel Tank […]

History

SONY Succeeded with radical breakthroughs. Failed with incremental improvements. Shed your past if you want to succeed in the future. You may be angry that Apple changed its connector, but look what backward compatibility did for Microsoft… It kept the company in the doldrums to the point where the Redmond enterprise completely missed tablet computing […]

Thanks Drake!

So I finish dinner with Richard Griffiths, get the latest lowdown on One Direction, hear how much they don’t do with old media, how they don’t want to overload their fans, and I get into the lobby of the London and check my Twitter feed… And it’s blowing up. Drake tweeted me. At 22:43, @Drake […]