The closing ceremonies, hell, the entire coverage of the Olympics seemed to be made for a customer that doesn’t exist, who lived back in the pre-Internet days, when the fact that NBC broadcast in color was enough to satiate those stuck in front of screens without clickers, sentenced to watching endless commercials or forced to […]

WhoseTube? I hate the way he bends over backwards to give EMI props, but you should read this for the statistic embedded deep within. Yes, embedding is the point.  When EMI disabled this feature, forced everyone to watch OK Go’s videos on YouTube, viewings of the famous (pre-embedding embargo) treadmill video dropped from 10,000 to […]

Yesterday I hosted a panel entitled "All-In Ticketing: Why Can’t We Do The Math?" at the Pollstar conference: Pollstar Live 2010 Nathan Hubbard did not appear.  Which was a shame, because Nathan has very definitive thoughts on ticketing and he’s committed to progress.  Whereas the panelists who took the stage with me ultimately agreed that […]

I often wonder what it would be like to go to college today. When I went to Middlebury, not only was there no Internet, there were no DVDs, and if you were really lucky, you could get one TV channel, with snow.  A couple of times a week we’d go to Dana Hall for movies, […]