Pandora SUCKS! I’m not sure computer-compiled radio is the future, but the fact that bozos listen to Pandora illustrates to me that you can sell crap to the public, because people are too dumb to know any better. Try fine-tuning your Pandora station.  I know someone who’s invested 200 hours in creating ONE Pandora station!  […]

If I get one more e-mail defending physical formats, I’m gonna throw my typewriter through the window.  Or maybe my Walkman! Please, no more prognostications from those who haven’t experienced the future.  You remind me of my mother, who pooh-poohed the family friend who bought a personal computer in the eighties, lamenting he didn’t spend […]

A geekfest! Somewhere in the last decade, "geek" went from pejorative to badge of honor.  Those not good-looking enough, not hip enough, not cool enough, took "geek" back, the same way African-Americans reclaimed "nigger". The mainstream music industry has been focused on hip and cool forever.  The key is to build an act that sits […]

I’m thinking Apple ends up owning this sphere. I’ve seen the future of reading, and it’s the portable electronic device.  Those who say they love physical books are no different from those stating they love CDs.  Antiquarians destined for the scrapheap.  It’s just like Napster and MP3s, you don’t get it until you try it. […]