People connect with artists, not executives.  We’re drawn to those who speak their truth, from deep down inside.  There is nothing more powerful than listening to a song and feeling that the artist is expressing your inner emotion.  You bond.  If the artist does this more than once, you become a fan.  You want to […]

"This past spring, Facebook introduced what Zuckerberg called the Open Graph. Users reading articles on CNN.com, for example, can see which articles their Facebook friends have read, shared, and liked. Eventually, the company hopes that users will read articles, visit restaurants, and watch movies based on what their Facebook friends have recommended, not, say, based […]

This is not today’s big news. The big story today is John Mayer leaving Twitter. I was stuck in a traffic jam of epic proportions this morning.  I was gridlocked in the hills in excess of an hour, barely crawling on Mulholland, what was happening? I tuned in the Sirius XM traffic report. Nothing. I […]

If you say something long enough, do people believe it? In other words, do tireless self-promoters succeed? Once upon a time I believed in Clive Davis.  When he got fired from CBS and wrote his autobiography, when he started Arista Records.  I thought Arista was the new Asylum, that albums could be bought on label […]