"What the Great Recession has crystallized is a larger syndrome that Obama tapped into during the campaign. It’s the sinking sensation that the American game is rigged – that, as the president typically put it a month after his inauguration, the system is in hock to ‘the interests of powerful lobbyists or the wealthiest few’ […]

TALENT PRICES Expect those checks to decrease. Don’t know if you’ve been following the movie business, but the studios have taken back compensation.  Rather than give eight digit salaries and profit participation from dollar one, they’re making almost everybody, actors and directors, wait for their money (if it comes in at all!)  The same thing […]

Social Media Revolution "Ashton Kutcher and Ellen DeGeneres have more Twitter followers than the entire population of Ireland, Norway and Panama." That CAN’T be true!  Ashton Kutcher just passed a million, wasn’t he in a race with that old wave media company? Figuring Ireland had the most people of the three, I Googled, and felt […]

From: Amanda PalmerSubject: dudeDate: August 15, 2009 5:57:25 PM MDTTo: bob@lefsetz.com if asked….how does twitter actually make you money? well it just saved me at least a couple grand in hotel and piano rental bills. imogen heap and i ended up DMing each other b/c of your post and she offered me & neil her […]