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Whether To Be On Spotify

New York City, just like I pictured it! Does anybody catch “Innervisions” references anymore? You know, “Living For The City”? That’s from the break. Anyway, the people watching is incredible. The older I get the more I realize that’s what it’s all about, interacting, having conversations, and I spent the afternoon at Q Prime, and […]

The Amazon/Hachette War

This is not about books. This is about corporations. And power. And the rights of not only artists, but individuals. There’s a fiction in America today that corporations are our friends. Amazon even pushes the paradigm by saying all its efforts are for us. Pitting writers against readers in a sideshow that deflects from the […]

Weird Al’s Album

Ben Sisario wrote the definitive statement in the “New York Times”: No Joke! He’s Topping the Charts Weird Al Yankovic Scores With ‘Mandatory Fun’ The most important element of the above article is the sponsorship story. Weird Al didn’t see sponsorship as a way to rip-off corporations to enhance his bottom line, he saw it […]

Digital Presence

1. DIGITAL HOME A. Wikipedia Your goal is to be big enough to have a Wikipedia page. It’s the first place newbies go to learn about you. It’s got the imprimatur of authority, people believe what they read, however inaccurate the details may be. We live in an information age and what we want most […]