Mark Cuban is a crybaby. Selling Broadcast.com at the height of dot com frenzy, he wants to shut the door behind him, exclude all those who don’t play by the rules.  He wants to see the death of YouTube, since they’re stealing the content and he’s investing money to gain a foothold in the movie/visual […]

I hate Windows. My antivirus subscription expired on one of my Windows laptops, and rather than pop fifty bucks for a new subscription, I decided to fire up my other machine, and download Google Desktop, with the six month free subscription to Norton. There went the evening.  And a good chunk of this afternoon too. […]

If this were the future of music retailing, Wal-Mart would get out of the CD business because CDBaby eviscerated its revenue. Please, please, please, let us state now and for all time, the hardest thing to do in the music sphere is find good talent.  Just about all bands suck.  Ask the major labels, what’s […]

Ever see a western?  With the posse in pursuit of the bad guys?  What does the brainiac ALWAYS say?  LET’S CUT THEM OFF AT THE PASS! Maybe record execs didn’t watch enough TV, maybe they aren’t aware of this most basic concept.  You don’t succeed by convincing people to play nice, to come back to […]