Archive for the 'Online' Category


Streaming

Ownership is for pussies. Oh, don’t e-mail, you same people who said we should save the album.  Notice what a few years do?  Radiohead says no more albums, Rush the same thing.  So, when your favorite acts give up on the long form format, don’t you too? I know you do.  Because you’ve stopped sending […]

Flash Sales

Felice is hooked on RueLaLa.com. In today’s "Wall Street Journal" it is revealed that Saks Fifth Avenue, arbiter and seller of first line, high-priced wares, is going into competition with RueLala, and Gilt.com and HauteLook.com.  In other words, Saks is going to sell out of season, oftentimes one year old, yet fully desirable merchandise, at […]

The Spotify Guys

They’re Swedish! Martin Lorentzon couldn’t stop saying how much he loves L.A.  Because in the winter in Stockholm, it gets light just before nine and dark again around three, and that’s just too little daylight, for too little time.  If only winter were a couple of months shorter, it would be tolerable. Then again, Sweden’s […]

Opening Up

I’m following Rob Katz on Twitter. I don’t know how I found out he was using the service.  Maybe from the "Vail Daily" or Vail Mountain itself.  But I was interested in what Vail Resorts’ CEO had to say. He’s clueless.  He’s read about Twitter, decided to jump in and forgot to realize that if […]