1. Ticketmaster and Live Nation Will Merge After public outcry lasting a week, people will move on to tracking the exploits of faux celebrities and the two companies will get down to trying to improve their bottom lines.  Which will depend not so much on fees, but the artists in the Front Line stable. Expect […]

"Objectified" – Jonathan Ive talks about Mac design & Unibody MacBook manufacture Watch this video.  Hang in past the foreign language intro until Ive comes on screen. Some of the things he says are mindblowing.  Because they apply to all art.  And make no mistake, Jonathan Ive is an artist. Getting design out of the […]

Insanely great products a handful of times a year. Imagine if Apple introduced a product no one wanted.  Something lame.  And held a press conference every other week to trumpet its features. Then you’d have the music business. What’s the lifespan of excitement on a laptop? Certainly not a year.  Maybe nine months at most. […]

What if no one was paying attention. In today’s "New York Times", Bono opines that ISPs should monitor their traffic, that creators need to be compensated for the distribution of their works.  I’ve got no problem with the underlying concept, that artists should be paid.  Nor do I think that ISPs should necessarily get off […]