Archive for the 'Online' Category


Twitter/X

This is what unregulated free speech looks like. Unusable. What did we lose with Steve Jobs? Simple user interfaces, a reduction in complication, leaving the past behind to go into the future. And with the loss of Twitter, we’ve given up instant news. Used to be if you had a question about what was happening, […]

Katy Perry

Live by the hit, die by the hit. That’s why you don’t want to be a pop star. Used to be it was a reasonable trade. Everybody in the world knew your name and you could tour forever on even one hit. Not anymore. Now you can have a hit and not be able to […]

Reach

Don’t confuse consumption with reach. In other words, today’s metrics, which are really yesterday’s metrics, don’t give an accurate picture of what is happening in the landscape, they don’t indicate how big an act is, rather how many times one person listened to one song. Think about that. In the pre-internet days of scarcity it […]

Mailbag

Subject: Re: Chris Stapleton At The Hollywood Bowl Hi Bob, Light moves faster than sound- the images are often timed to give a better experience to people farther back who make the most use of the screens. The production will calculate the best delay to cater to the largest % of the crowd, this will […]