Archive for the 'Online' Category


Virtual Goods

Would you pay a dollar to evidence you were at Lady GaGa’s gig at the Cutting Room? Hell, I didn’t even know she performed at the Cutting Room.  I had to read the "New York" profile  to find that out. Growing Up Gaga Music has forever been about hipsterism.  Knowing who’s good and bad and […]

More Taylor Swift

Speaking of crowdsourcing… Someone forwarded me these tweets from Josh Groban: "I really don’t feel that charity performances should be subject to reviews in the same light as other performances…." "people give their time, energy and voices, for free and with little to no rehearsal and critics should put away the snot-o-meter." "just a thought. […]

The OK Go Fracas

What if I told you a stroke of genius, a relatively cheap video based on concept more than expensive special effects, could become an Internet phenomenon and you’d break an act.  Would you like that? Of course. To the point you’d see the value of Internet video and make sure that it never happened again. […]

The Future

"According to a source familiar with his thinking, Jobs has recognized that ‘mobile ads suck’ and that improving that situation will make Apple even harder to beat." BusinessWeek -"Apple vs. Google" Aren’t ads supposed to suck? Google survives, quite nicely, on providing targeted ads.  You may not click on them, but enough people do that […]