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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 […]

Nicole Westbrook-It’s Thanksgiving

Nicole Westbrook-It’s Thanksgiving The joke is on us. And the only people who don’t get it are the music business establishment, the usual suspects complicit in creating the drivel that pours out of Top Forty radio, compounding cliches as they parade around believing they’re Masters of the Universe. The truth is…ANYONE CAN DO IT! That’s […]

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 […]

Taylor Swift

Has she jumped the shark? By playing to everybody has she undermined her core country audience? Don’t trust the media. The media is there to be manipulated, it likes a story. Ergo, the election. If there’s no horse race, there’s no ratings. If everybody else is doing a story on Taylor Swift, then you should […]