http://www.twitter.com/lefsetz My inbox is going berserk!  With Twitter fanatics bringing me up to speed. I hate being behind the curve.  I could make like the major labels in 2000 and just ignore the future, or admit that, shit, not only do I not know everything, but that by dipping my toes in the water I’m […]

Been tweeting. Avoided it for eons, figuring people were hearing from me enough.  But I was implored by many to join the ranks, and since you’ve got to opt in, I’ve decided to take the plunge. First I had to reclaim my name.  There was an impostor under one and a squatter on another.  But […]

I was just watching Seth Godin’s presentation at Google: "All Marketers are Liars" He was saying that Napster could have been successful if it launched in a nursing home.  Because it was so good, everybody would tell everybody else about it. That’s how great the original Napster was.  Seth said it only had to reach […]

If Phish is giving away a free download of last night’s Hampton Coliseum show is the reign of the late twentieth century major label paradigm finally over? That’s how it worked.  The record company signed you, ripped you off and set you free to make some cash on the road, if the company had built […]