YAHOO LYRICS The Perils of Online Song Lyrics(watch the video in the center of the page for the essence) Whenever I speak at a conference, I analogize the online music sphere to the wild west.  Robbers have removed all the assets from the local bank and have ridden off into the sunset.  What to do? […]

The Zimmers "My Generation" Used to be you couldn’t reach the old farts.  They didn’t go to school, they didn’t go out to clubs, they were positively out of the loop.  Isn’t that what selling CDs at Starbucks is predicated on?  Baby boomers being out of the loop? But suddenly, baby boomers have learned how […]

We were living in a hip-hop nation.  What happened? The Internet. Hip-hop evolved into a marketing juggernaut.  The sound of the people made by performers who would endorse any product, tie in with anybody willing to pay them.  And the marketers paid them.  And the mainstream media covered the shenanigans.  And then suddenly nobody wanted […]

This is the second time I’m writing about this today. The first time the story was how the mainstream press was completely out of it on this one, how this was truly a Web phenomenon. Now the story is how Alanis herself is completely silent, how the story is the story, what exactly happened here? […]