For Lesbians, TikTok Is ‘the Next Tinder’ The code phrase is “Girl in Red.” In the seventies it was “Holly Near.” But in the seventies everybody knew who Holly Near was, I doubt you’ve even heard of Girl in Red, never mind heard the music. There’s been a cornucopia of TikTok news in the past […]

Which came first, Trump or the internet? Once again, music was the canary in the coal mine for digital disruption. Music has been disrupted, we’re at the end of the line of technology, we’ve got an on demand system where you can get everything in the history of recorded music for one low price. (As […]

One generation got old One generation got soul “Volunteers” Jefferson Airplane It’s bottom up. And the oldsters have got no clue. I found this story in my Twitter feed: “TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally – Did a successful prank inflate attendance expectations for President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Okla?” But […]

It’s Napster. What do we know about Napster? It happened as a result of technological change. Same deal here, but instead of high speed connections, it’s smartphone cameras. In the late nineties and early 2000s, only college students had high speed connections. The public came along later. Same deal with smartphones. Sure, some had them […]